17 APRIL 1909, Page 25

How to Produce Ideas and Now to Acquire Fluency. lily

Charles Seymour. (G. Routledge and Sons. 3s. net.)—To "produce" ideas seems at first sight to be an unattainable thing. The man of ideas 'medlar non fit. But to take the word "produce" in a Possible sense of "bringing out" clears the way a little. Some- thing may be done in this line, and it is that Mr. Seymour really means. There are many useful hints in the volume. Neither this, nor indeed any, manual can make a man into a really effective speaker ; but there is a large class of men wise may he taught to do passably well what without instruction they would do very badly.