Show WHAT MAKES A GOOD TALKER doctor johnson says say amona other things there must B be presence Pre tence of 1 l 1 rid resolution sa man Inia Je ade gift of 0 gab with without lug a thelan the london acle e s Ott liis order was macaalay lay yno no had no restful spaces of at naj 1 I wish hud s d sydney smith who could listen as well as aa talk 1 I wish that Alu lii caulay would see the difference between colloquy and soliloquy and on another occasion aoh oh yes wt we both talk a rood good deal but I 1 dont believe macaulay ever did hear bear my voice sometimes when I 1 have told a good story I 1 have bare thought to myself poor Macau macaulay layl I 1 he will be very sorry some day to have missed hearing that the difference between the two men was that between the clover clever talker and ana the brilliant bore but the elements of success in conversation will be variously var louly defined doctor johnson who must take rank with the foremost of the worlds great talkers had bad his bis own theories on the subject there must in the first place be knowledge he be said there must he be materials ma ter fals in the second place there must be command of words in the third place there must be imagination to place things as aa they are not commonly seen and in the fourth place there must be presence of mind and a reso resolution littlon that it is not to be overcome by failures this last is es lenthal lent lal for want of it many people so not excel in conversation |