30 MARCH 1901, Page 23

Notes on Speech Making. By Brander Matthews. (Longmans and Co.

Is. 611 )—The first of these two papers refers to lectures, addresses, and speeches in general; the second to the after-dinner variety. Instruction in either kind of exercise is not likely to be of very much use ; the after-dinner orator is, perhaps, more likely to profit by advice than any other speaker. He has but a short time to occupy, and he must be somewhat feeble if, with this little brochure to help him, he does not acquit himself fairly well. From the same author and publishers we have also The Philosophy of the Short Story (1s. 6c1.), a new and enlarged edition of a paper that appeared some time ago.