Show speeches with and without notes two occasions on which noted orators have acquitted themselves well although obliged to do without their carefully prepared periods and sentences lord rosebery on arriving at ply mouth last saturday by the 4 20 train to address a mass meeting in the even ing found that he had left the notes of his speech in london says the lon don saturday review he had about three hours at the hotel in which to collect his thoughts assuming suming ae that he was left alone by the local magnates and in which the notes might arrive dIg dispatched patched post post haste by the faithful secretary we gather from what loid lord rosebery said that the notes did not arrive and we must suppose that he is above the petty fibbing of the ordinary M P who as you at a political banquet that he is down toi for some toast he doean t know which or what be he will say at the very moment that he is trying to convey his speech from his pocket to his head in the circumstances so far as the mere inere speaking went ent I 1 lord ord rosebery did not do badly for there are few things more even to a mature and experienced speaker and lord rosebery will not mind our telling the public that he ie is between 50 and 60 years old than to find you have left your notes at home we remember a similar accident I 1 be befalling talling mr air gladstone in 1876 we think it was when he had come down to the house to make a big speech on the bulgarian atrocities mr glad stone was not at that time the leader of the opposition lord hartington was and the old man only appeared on rare occasions with alth walking stick and gloves and sat at the end ot of the front bench with his hat on which be he never wore when leading the house on either hand of the speaker no one who witnessed it can ever forget his advancing to the box on that occasion and the superb gesture with which be he threw back his head bead and expanded his chest while he informed the house in a dim and impressive exordium like the opening bars of a maj majestic estla waltz that he had left hig notes in harley street it was as one of the finest speeches ever heard even from mr gladstone and proved that the real orator ie Is never more truly great than when he is not like the scotch nain min ister tied to his paper As brougham said the man who writes much will always speak better when he is to forced to speak ei extempore tempore than the man who will not or possibly can an not write |