MAY

1t seems to me called for to inaugurate a revolution in American oratory, to change it from the excessively diffuse and impromptu character it has (an ephemeral readiness, surface animation, the stamp of the daily newspaper, to be dismissed as soon as the next day’s paper appears) — and to make it the means of the grand modernized delivery of live modern oralions, appropriate to America, appropriate to the world —

This change is a serious one; if to be done at all cannot be done easily — its great leading representative man with perfect confidence in his powers, persevering, ranging up and down the States — such a man above all things would give it a fair start. What are your Yheories? Let us have the practical sample of a thing, and look upon it and listen to it and turn it about for to examine tt.