This Week's Books
YOUNG politicians, and indeed all who wish to speak in public, may be recommended to give attentive study to the Speeches by Lord Oxford and Asquith, an admirable selection of which has been made by his private secretary, Mi. Basil Herbert (Hutchinson. 18s.). As examples of a sound Parliamentary Manner, giving light rather than heat, these speeches retain their interest, though the topic; are now' mostly historical, like "Coercion in Ireland," the Parliament 'Bill and Woman Suffrage, the case against iihich is nowhere better expressed than in Mr. Asquith's speeeh of May 6th, 1913. The speaker's memorial tributes to his old colleagues and opponents, especially the oration on Joseph 'Chamberlain, are the finest things in a memorablebook.
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