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Show TALKING AND TALKERS Anatole France was a fine judge of talk. He could listen to speeches in the French senate, and describe various speakers speak-ers to perfection. Of M. Buffet, France writes: "He strikes with sure and regular blows ... He has that urgent and compact logic which is the muscle of speech. He has a strong and simple style, the accent of sincerity, and honest stubbornness." Of M. de Freycinet, France writes: "So slender, so thin, and so pale, raising clarity to the height of splendor, making his colorless and lucid phrasing flow in little singing and caressing waves, and building up, before an astounded audience, audi-ence, speeches which, in their trail elegance and, rather arid grace, resemble marvelous suspension bridges." The human voice is a marvelous instrument, properly attuned, and witli a good brain behind it supplying the right theme and variations, it can work wonders for its owner. o |