CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY For some time I have been besieged with requests to open a “Speakers’ Class” or “A School of Oratory,” or, as one ingenious correspondent puts it, a “Forensic Club.” With these requests it is impossible to comply for sheer lack of time. I have decided, however, to embody in these pages the results of my own experience, and the best I have learned from the experience of others. There are some things required in a good lecturer which cannot be imparted to a pupil by any teac ...