Professor A. B. HYDE, D.D., University of Denver, University Park, Colo. THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO OUR GOVERNMENT.......... 930 Rev. EDWARD THOMSON, LL.D., Atlanta, Ga. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS: NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS.. 942 Christianity in the Colleges, 942; Excessive Optionalism in Education, 945. THE ARENA.... 956 Memory Lessons for Christian Folk, 956; Symmetry in Preaching, 958; THE ITINERANTS' CLUB...... 961 A Study in Comparative Exegesis: Jacob and Esau-Rom. ix, 13, 961; The ARCHEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL RESEARCH.... 967 Jerusalem and the Monuments, 967. MISSIONARY REVIEW.. 971 Missions in Egypt, 971; The New Japanese Treaty, 972; Missionary Co- Lyman's Christian View of a Time of Change. 984; Nash's Ethics and INDEX.... 1017 Extemporaneous Oratory for Professional and Amateur Speakers. A SPECIMEN CRITICISM. This book is vitalized and brightened from end to end by the spirit and experience which the author has contrived to work into it. The reader will be sure that he is in the hands of an author who knows every good speaker and preacher now alive, and is chock full of knowledge about all the others, DANIEL WEBSTER and never fails to turn up with a personal illustration for all his points. A certain reassuring autobiographic tone runs through the book, which gives the reader confidence that the author is on the solid ground of his own experiences, and that the reader is being conducted through something like a confidential disclosure of the methods by which one very distinguished master in extempore speech acquired his art. The practical aim of the book is impressed on it from the beginning, and outweighs the scientific both in the plan and its development. Yet we can think of no manual on the art of extempore speech which is charged with more usefulness, and in so many different directions. It is a first-rate manual for young preachers, and old ones too, provided they are not too old to learn. 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