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SECRETS OF ORATORY.
A STUDY OF PUBLIC AND LEGAL ELOQUENCE.
[BY AUGUSTINK DIARELL
1
Mr. Locker-Lampson has the courage: of his tastes. So far as
In my boyish days in Liverpool I mot old genticman, stolid enough to look at, who could still glow with enthusiasm (akin to Crabb Robinson's) as thoy re called Canning's spoochen made in that town, as Liverpool was then well content to be called, during his Parliamentary connection 1812-182),
These Liverpool specctios were collected know, before separately and published locally in 1895, this present terprise. Tony British and have nover find the attention paid to page 304) on the revolution wrought in Lampson), them they deserve One passage (s00 his constituency by the steamship csa hold its own with any bit of oratory, ancient or modern have been found for it in this volunzo, I wish room could which, however, is stout enough as it is, and may confidently be recommended to all those who love reading for its own sako, and not merely to apply for the impending General Election.
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and Irish. By Godfrey three books stood to his credit in the library of the British Museum; one his torical, one metaphysical, and the third an anthologs, and lik
is only fair to all three to say that no one of them bears any trace of having been written at the bidding of a publisher, or to supply any loudly-expressed want. And now, stifl in the hot pursuit of the unpopular, he adds oratory to
his list. Such per sistency almost deserves to be punished by success.
We are often told that to-day oratory is dead sharing the same grave with ancient deity, mediaeval devotion and commercial honour.
You may
take your soat, so it is said, in the gallery of the House of Commons, and yewn, whilst you cross the
lobby and are lucky enough to find the Lords. in session, you may fall asleep, and over you chance to be in a county town when there is a gaol delivery going on, attd enter the Assize Court, you may do so without much foar of being haunted all the rest of your life by the thrilling accents of the barrister for the defence who, whilst beating his breast, is assuring the jury that if they and his client guilty his counsel will leave the court troubled man. 15
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A RECOLEACTION OF EUSKINE. And yet old Orabh Robinson, who died in 1886, heard Erskine in 1791 at the Spring Assizce in Colchester employ these words in B dispute about the validity of a will: पर
If, gentlemen, you should. by your verdict, annihilate an instrument 80 Boleninly framed I should retire a troubled man from this court' and, adds the narrator, as he uttered the word
court, he beat his breast.
and I had
a difficulty in not crying out."
Fifty-four years
this memory stirred the old profound omotion. No wonder the editor of this volume allots more than Afty of his valu- able pages to this moving orator.
As Mr. Locker Lampson gives us no specimens of pulpit cloquence, I have no excuse for referring to what might hap- pen to-day to any men who went to church in search of it.
I am, however, indispuser to believo (and the editor does not suggest it) that oratory is really dead. 1 am sveptical about either, golden or great ages
Whenover or wherever you
of tory.
pra lived you were always far more likely to hear
had speech than a good one. the ill-fuck had been yours to bear De Suppose mosthenes before he had taken the pebbles out of his mouth, or to listen to all Burke's speeches in Parliament without the chance of reading one of them in print.
OVER-PRAISED ORATORS.
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Nor con it be forgotten that great orators are always grossly over-praised. Does anybody really believe that Sheri- dan was listened to in the House for five and a half hours with breathless atten "Take my word for it-the tion cannot be done.
Ben Jonson' Character sketch of Francis
conviction with it in every sent ence, save the last The fear of every man that heard him was make an end." I can answer for
was lest ho should whenever Bacon spoke in the House of
it
that, Conions, there was at least one man in his audience who was glad when he sat down, and that was the member who wae waiting to get up.
Whether this generation of ours has had its average share of great oratory is a question each of us must answer for himself. Feeling that I have had mine, I lodge no complaint.
Mr. Locker-Lampson's volume, which, unlike in this respect most collections of speeches, is admirably printed in a large and clear type, beautiful to look at and casy to read, gives the judicious reader ample opportunities of considering the urt of oratory sa distinguished from the art of written composition, intended, in the first instance, for the printer.
HOW TO TELL & READ SPEECH. "If a speech reads well." said the greatest of all Parliamentary debaters, you may be sure it was a bad speech." It is difficult to tell the whole truth about an abatraction in twelve words, but Fox's
aphorism: goes to the root of the matter, and
though
as all truth and excep
does, provisos, enough to
tions ileals a blow,
topple over two of Mr. Lockor Lampson's giants, Burke and
Macaulay.
Now that Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff has been gathered to his fathers there seems nobody left to prates and quote the first Lytton's gallery of oratori.
cal portraits in verau, St. Stephens," published in 1800, and readers of Mr. Locker Lampson's book, who do not know
St. Stephens will, I am
of the references am sure, be glad to pp. 88-73, when Burke's oratory is delineated in spirited yet oratorical verse, and to pp. 105-14, which deal with Macaulay. A few lines may
allowed mo (Grant Duff being dead), so well do thoy illustrate some of the differences between the spoken and the written word
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Shakespence, ill-acted, do you run to hear? And Burke, ill-apokos, would you stay to
cheer?
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All this a Chatham might have brought
in vogue.. Yes-but, then, Chatham did not sponke
In brague.
Airendy Fox in silent to enr age, Barko quits the rostrum to illume the
page
And Macaulay.
Not any, rather argued declamation Frigates si trite, but always na oration, A Royal higherce that paid in state Aremonious visit to Debate,
my humble opinion the orator who best combined the diverse gifts of the sporker and the weltor; nad od Finiself both in the win revoni
of Commons
and on the platform as a speaker who:| would write, and a writer who poukl speak, was Canning, to whom, with gross taste of selection, Mr. Lonker Late peon has given no less titan 64 pages.
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