Demosthenes Demobilised. (Cambridge : Heffer. Os. net.)— This little book
is a record of the Cambridge Union Society's debates from February, 1919, to June, 1920, by the four presidents who in turn occupied the chair. As most of the speakers were ex-Service men who had returned to complete their courses, Mr. Chamberlain may well declare in his preface that the debates show " a greater sobriety of judgment and a more serious appre- ciation of the importance of the subjects attacked than was common to my own untried generation." Dr. J. R. Tanner, long the Treasurer of the Union, has prefixed an interesting little sketch of the history of the weekly debates which began just before Waterloo. The summaries of the debates in this volume are wittily written and throw some light on what the returned soldier was thinking.
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