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This article presents information regarding several books. Books were in the news last week. Jim Wright's book, which was under scrutiny by the U.S. House Ethics Committee, is a compilation of the sayings of Speaker. Reading another prominent and familiar story of chicanery on high, we were reminded of Ezra Pound's dictum, "Literature is news that stays news." News of a different sort was made by the publication of the fiftieth anniversary edition of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."

This article presents information on the visit of British writer Bertrand Russell to the U.S. But Bertrand Russell is not specifically English or a lecturer. He is not only one of the great philosophers; he is also one of the keenest social thinkers and one of the most eminent internationalists living, and his internationalism rests upon the surest of all foundations: a steadfast record of pacifism during the first World War. During his stay in the U.S. Bertrand Russell has contributed a lot to writings through the columns of The Nation, and it is hoped that many of the readers will be able to hear him in person during his stay in the United States.

The article reports on a conference that was held on the weekend of January 29 to 31, 1971. U.S. Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger presided over the meeting. The gathering was sponsored by an ad hoc organization called Project Runnymede. The author attended the conference at which Kissinger spent two hours talking and answering questions on American foreign policy. The meeting was officially off the record. Kissinger reminded his audience that if his remarks were reported it would make it difficult for him to meet other groups in the future. Kissinger was not the first speaker of the evening.

The article presents information on the Macmillan Co. having just issued the first volume of "Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome." The volume contains papers by the director of the school, R. Chard Norton, by Thomas Ashby Jr., the vice-president of the British School in Rome, by Arthur Mahler, lecturer in the American School, as well as by several of the fellows and students. The price of the book is 3 dollars. Ginn & Co.'s book "Standard English Classics" suits very well the chunky volume of Henry Esmond, edited for school use by Hamilton B. Moore.

The article focuses on political developments. The year which has just closed has supplied the same material as all years for reflections on the uncertainty of human affairs and on the probability of the unforeseen. These will be made in the usual profusion by hosts of writers and speakers during the present week owing to the revival of business in the two nations in which most moralizing is done by the press, the U.S. and Great Britain, and will contain fewer commendations of frugality and simplicity of living as the true source of happiness. Some of the Republican papers are trying to persuade themselves that there is no analogy between the case which is now pending in Maine and the one which took place in Louisiana in 1876.

Germany's recovery of part of her lost colonies is rapidly becoming an acute international question. For the first time since the war the press sent special correspondents into former German territory in Africa and, the South Seas. The biggest German motion-picture concern, the Ufa, dispatched an expedition to the African ex-colonies and the resultant film, itself calculated to revive colonial yearnings, was accompanied throughout its exhibition in Germany by a lecturer who emphasized the propagandist motive of this imperialist travelogue.

The talking talent is not one of those personal gifts, which Englishmen delight to honor. The article focuses on English statesman and orator John Bright. Bright has a merit, which is not a very common one among popular, speakers. He uses pure English, avoiding alike the opposite vulgarisms of bombast and of slang. His style is simply perfect, racy, strong, sharp and clear. His almost infallible taste in the choice of words, is the key to his victory over the orator-scorning fastidiousness of the educated classes of England.

These are the days of popular lectures and familiar treatises on scientific subjects. The popular lecturer on science is exposed to a third temptation: speaking usually on subjects with which his audiences have but very slight acquaintance, he is checked by no fear of competent criticism of his method, or of any immediate reply to loose or incorrect statements. In speaking of the dangers which attend the process of making science familiar, people have no desire to gainsay the necessity of diffusing scientific information as widely as possible. But in pursuing this desirable end, it is of primary importance that nothing but real science should be diffused, and that the methods of teaching employed should be, before everything, characterized by simplicity, fairness, and humility.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on teaching of English in schools and colleges in England; Issues related to lecturers and colleges in the United States; Collection of novels in the Brookline Library, Massachusetts.

The article focuses on the various political developments around the world during 1886. First article focuses on the U.S. president Benjamin Harrison. After the expiration of his term in the office, he got an offer of lectureship on law in the Leland Stanford University. Another article focuses on biblical criticism. The English Wesleyans have just had a discussion of "the higher criticism" of the Bible on their hands. Another article focuses on the Republican party in Spain. The new prime minister of Spain said that the offending Republican had already found sufficient punishment in the fact that not a single one of his friends had joined him in his revolutionary cheer.

This article presents information on several books and publications. Estes and Laurat, a newly-established publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts and the agents of Appleton & Co., will continue the publication of Lee & Shepard's series called "Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science," and join with it to another to be called "Half-Hour Recreations in Natural History." James Anthony Froude, the historian, last evening, gave the first of five lectures which are to be given in the Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association on Wednesday and Friday evenings of this week and next. His subject is the "Relations between England and Ireland."

Not many years ago a lecturer on literature, of more than local reputation and of unusual talent for catching the attention of the typical summer-school public, commented somewhat on the gloomy, depressing tone of Russian authors: "Just think of even the titles of their works! 'Dead Souls'! The very name is enough to send a shiver through one's frame!" Poor Gogol! The lecturer was not more ignorant of him than are most other professors of literature, but he ought to have read at least a few pages of a book that is a spiritual cousin of "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Gentle Grafter" before he indulged in reflections on its serio-comic title.

Faith in the democratic process has recently been repudiated in some places where it should find its strongest support. Within the last year, many university administrators have assumed the right to sift ideas, which speakers wished to discuss on invitation of various student groups and they have forbidden the expression of ideas by persons whom they considered unqualified or subversive. Speaker bans have been enforced at the University of California, Michigan State University, Ohio State University and the New York City colleges, to name but a few.

This article profiles the life of a Reverend with pseudonym as Lewis Carrol. the Reverend had been ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford in the year 1981. He had already spent eleven years as undergraduate and lecturer at the university, and was destined to add another thirty-six years there before death cut short his residence. His life, in fact, was spent in an almost monastic retirement. He emerged, it is true, to attend the theater-although at times he underwent a struggle with his conscience when he did so; he was a frequent and gracious dinner host-until he arrived at middle life, when even this became too strenuous for him.

The commander of the local post of the American Legion was explaining his action to the chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Woman's Club and the lecturer from out of town. Obviously he was not particularly pleased with himself or very proud of what he had done. He made it clear that it was not of his own initiative, but under specific instructions by resolution adopted, that he had waited upon the officers of the woman's club in company with the ex-commander. They had made no threats of interference with the lecture, as similar representatives from the same post had two years before, thereby securing the cancellation of that speaker.

The article presents information about Henry Rutgers Marshall, who died in New York on May 2, 1927 was an unusual type of public servant. An architect of high standing, a distinguished critic, a university lecturer, an author of six important works on aesthetic and philosophical subjects, he spent the last eight years of his life as secretary of the Municipal Art Commission of the City of New York. He devoted himself to the difficult and often trying labor of passing upon all the architectural and communal undertakings that came before the Art Commission of the metropolis for approval.

The article focuses on the book "William Lloyd Garrison. 1805-1879. The Story of His Life. Told by His Children," vol. 1, "1805-1835," vol. 2 "1835-1840." This biography, tracing the ancestry, boyhood, training, and adult development of Garrison, an U.S. editor and lecturer, in strict chronological progression to the close of his thirty-fifth year, with a wealth of documentary evidence, much of which has never before been published, now for the first time enables the man to be seen in his true light. In so doing, it unavoidably relates the history of the anti-slavery movement of which he was the founder. All his prominent associates figure on the scene and speak in their own persons.

The article presents information on the book "Twenty Five Years, 1892-1916," by Viscount Grey. Grey tries to stem a current like this by writing memoirs. His strength, as a panegyrist declared already in 1915, consists in a power of exposition "so luminous, moderate, and judicial that soon it appears almost impossible to dissent from the speaker's conclusions." In his memoirs Grey lives up to his reputation. The work may become an English classic; it may be read and admired a thousand years hence. It will crystallize the English legend.

This article focuses on the book "The Problem of China," by Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russell went to China for a year's stay as a lecturer and teacher in philosophy. He has now given the fruits of his thinking on China in a book of the very first significance. Thoroughly prepared for making an analysis and interpretation of the phenomena of social organization, he has shared with us an insight into Chinese civilization and the exceedingly complex forces now at work in the Far East. The wide variety of the questions treated is given unity by his gathering up of the many threads of discussion into one central problem.

This article focuses on the reform meeting in Hyde Park in London. One of the speaker at the meeting was Mr. Walpole who is member of Cambridge University, and is the very ideal of what a university member should be; that is to say, he is an absolute in carnation of respectability, a model of deportment, and a man of naturally commanding presence. He spoke with such solemnity, and at the same time with such vagueness, that only three points seemed to be clear; first, that the Government apprehended considerable danger; secondly, that they meant to do something very awful; and, thirdly, that they did not quite know what the awful thing was to be.

There are certain contemptuous vulgarisms not honored by a place, in any dictionary which are yet indispensable to people who habitually listen to the stump speeches of this and other countries. They are just the criticism, quite respectful enough and quite discriminative enough, to pass upon the true stump eloquence. A few days since the U.S. House was considered whether the grade of general should be revived and of course, the chief theme of speakers was the character and services of the Lieutenant General Hiram Ulysses Grant. These recollections of what so short a time since was in the hearts of all must have been fresh in all minds.

Barely twenty years ago that shrewd thinker and bold speaker, Fenimore Cooper, stigmatized New York society as provincial. Though expressed with unnecessary vehemence, the charge was at the time true in the main; but were the great novelist now living, he would see abundant reason for changing his opinion. And among the many symptoms of metropolitanism, which the New York City displays, none is more striking than the multiplication of clubs. And while clubs develop the intellectual character of their members, they do so without forming petty cliques and camaraderie. The club is too large a body to be at the mercy of any one man or any few men. Mutual admiration societies do not find their origin there.

This article presents information on oratorical skills of the seventy-eight-year-old British lecturer and dean Hewlett Johnson. The last "big" meeting he addressed in Britain-it was after his return from Rumania a year ago attracted only 150 persons, most of them habitual attenders of Communist-front gatherings. Characteristically, he was ecstatic about the fish ponds on Rumanian collective farms. For him what is commonplace in Israel or Indonesia becomes a triumph of Communist planning in Rumania.

The Zagreb Congress, held from October 23-27 was attended by some two hundred leaders of opinion coming from twenty-three countries inevitably became a battle-ground for conflicting views as to the causes of present tensions and the way to alleviate them. "Neutralists," like Agnes Humbert from France, made determined assaults upon American and Soviet policies alike. The great majority of those present, whether as representatives of organized opinion or as individuals speaking for themselves, gave their support to the principle of collective security.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Focus on the Pennsylvanian judiciary. Discussion on cultivated speakers and writers in England.

The ballot boxes sealed for three weeks kept hidden the fact that July 5, 1945 witnessed a silent revolution in British political life. At the last assembly of Parliament the choosing of a Speaker presented a remarkable contrast to observers sufficiently venerable. Then, under the leadership of the architect of victory, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, the government benches thronged by elderly "hard-faced men who: had done well out of the war," reflected the nation's acceptance of a policy allowing private enterprise a free rein in the short-view exploitation of a profitable peace. The nation's emphatic refusal to repeat this. experience is manifest today on the benches crowded by Laborites who give a vivid impression of youthfulness vigor and practical idealism.

The article focuses on Conference of the National Education Association. The programme was a formidable one, and no visitor, however active of body and keen of spirit, could hope to do more than obtain a superficial glimpse of what was being done. During the brief space of five days there were held ninety-nine meetings, of which ten were general sessions. The list of speakers contained 450 names, and the actual number of speeches made must have been well over a thousand. The themes were Americanization of aliens, the promotion of classical studies, the development of rural education, the relation of democracy in education to democracy in government, and woman's part in financing the war.

The article focuses on the January educational meeting of music teachers, held at Hammersmith. The programme devoted a whole afternoon to a discussion on the teaching or "musical appreciation" or of "the appreciation of music," as one of the more precise speakers suggested. It should be called. The conference was unanimous in the belief that appreciation ought to be taught, and could be taught. The chairman, Percy A. Scholes, one of the most active propagandists of the Home Music Study Union, did his utmost to elicit some expression of adverse opinion, but no advocatus diaboli could be induced to appear.

The article comments on the effects of changing the seating arrangement in the U.S. House of Representatives. The author states that when the seating arrangement is changed, the quantity and quality of discussions is improved. The effect on a speaker is likely to make him or her feel that he or she owes a serious discussion and not a simple words trying to consume a specified number of minutes, while the effect on debate means a distinct improvement of the larger issues addressed by the House.

It has been said that revolutions break out after the economic curve has reached the bottom of depression and has just started to climb again. The many vigorous manifestations for peace, taking place all over Europe, indicate that the war danger over Berlin, Germany, the Congo, atomic tests, and the crisis in the United Nations, has just passed its critical point, and that one is really on the way out and up again. According to the author, it is useless to try to assess the direct influence on Italian politics of a mass rally of the kind he witnessed late last month at Assisi, Italy. The hand-painted posters, the various groups were carrying offered a most varied and instructive spectacle. Surprisingly, many protesters attacked the problem of imperialism. The speakers all insisted on the absolute necessity of peace and they tried to lay down the basis on which peace must be established.

Miss Anna Dickinson, after having enjoyed considerable success as a lecturer for ten or twelve years, determined, according to her own account, to appear on the stage in order to escape the hardships of the continual travel which lecturing necessitates, and composed the play in which she was to make her debut. She has now been acting for about a year in various parts of the U.S. The newspapers have condemned both the play and the acting somewhat unmercifully, and, finding herself the other night playing to a house only one-third filled, she lost her temper, and, coming before the curtain after the performance in her stage robes, she gave her critics a severe scolding which lasted an hour.

The article announces a series of speeches by author Benjamin Crewe in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California and a speakers bureau established by the Union for Radical Political Economics.

Presented is a notice advertising the speaker service provided by the Union for Radical Political Economics.

A notice describing speakers available from the Union for Radical Political Economics is presented.

A calendar of special events is presented. Listed is an announcement of a conference scheduled for May 2009, in Madison, Wisconsin, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of "The Progressive" magazine, and an offer from the Union for Radical Political Economics to provide lecturers for meetings and seminars.

The article offers information on the speakers provided by the Economy Connection of the Union for Radical Political Economics for conventions. Also offered is information on a New York City meeting of the World Hunger Year (WHY) organization, and information about the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).

The article offers information on the war and global capitalism speakers provided by the Economy Connection of the Union for Radical Political Economics, and on the organization Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).

The article offers information on the lifetime achievement award convention honoring U.S. Congressman John Conyers on September 19, 2008, in New York City. An announcement for speakers and resources from the Economy Connection of the Union for Radical Political Economics is also provided.

The article notes events of interest in the U.S. The Deerfield Beach Century Village Progressive Forum features speakers on a weekly basis at Century Village, Florida. On January 30, 2007 Yeshiva University will host a symposium on ethical leadership in the 21st century. Mike Moore will discuss his book "Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance" on January 9, 2008 at the Hans Bethe Center in New York City.

This article previews the 2006 URPE Summer Conference, occurring in August of 2006, at Camp Deer Run in Pine Bush, New York. Among the speakers at the conference will be Wadi'h Halabi, William Tabb, and Salima Valani, and topics such as race, economics, and Latin American politics will be discussed.

This article provides information on Economy Connection, which provides speakers on war and global capitalism among other topics, Heathcare-Now!'s coalition in support of HR676, and the Peace Brigades.

This article presents news briefs. A conference on "War and Global Capitalism. Unemployment and Recession" will be held, which will be attended by speakers to highlight their views on the above topic. The speakers can talk about wealth and poverty, and the economic forces that generate increasing income inequality, among and within countries. They can cut through the confusing terminology that is used to prevent ordinary intelligent people from understanding and participating in discussions on the policies that affect our lives. Further more, a brief information about Chris Marker's "A Grin Without a Cat " is mentioned in the article.

The article presents information about speakers on war, global capitalism, unemployment, recession and other related topics. For speakers on these topics anyone can contact Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics which can provide speakers for formal or informal events sponsored by community groups, unions, high schools, colleges or political organizations. These speakers have knowledge about the economic forces that generate increasing income inequality, among and within countries.

The article presents information about Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics. It provides a speaker for political or educational events, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of the community organization, union, political group or classroom.

The article presents information about various events that will be organized in the U.S. "Economy Connection," a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics. One can provide a speaker for a political or educational event, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of the community organization, union, political group or classroom. Members can speak and write about a large number of topics, from various points of view.

This article presents information about a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics. It provides a speaker for a political or educational event, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of your community organization, union, political group or class-room. Its members speak and write about a large number of topics, from various points of view.

This article informs about the schedule of some events in the U.S. You can contact Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics, if the economy has been mystifying you. They can provide a speaker for a political or educational event, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of your community organization, union, political group or classroom. The postmodernist assault on historical understanding threatens the integrity of all knowledge. A conference sponsored by the Institute of Human Values of Saint Marys University, Halifax, on October 13-14, will explore this problem.

This article presents information on some events that are going to be organized in the coming days and months. It is informed that Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics, can provide speakers for political or educational events. For further information, one is requested to mail at URPE@labornet.org. It is also brought to the notice of the readers that a conference sponsored by the Institute of Human Values of Saint Mary's University will be held from October 13-14, 2001. The conference will deliberate on the postmodernist assault on historical understanding.

This article provides several briefs related to various events and organizations in different cities of the United States. One brief informs that Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics, provides information on any aspect of the economy. It can provide a speaker for a political or educational event, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of a given community organization, union, political group or classroom. Another brief states that a conference sponsored by the Institute of Human Values of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be held on October 13-14. The conference will explore the problem of postmodernist assault on historical understanding, which threatens the integrity of all knowledge.

The article presents a list of various events taking place in the United States. Economy Connection, a project of the Union for Radical Political Economics, can provide a speaker for a political or educational event, or someone to discuss economic questions informally with a few members of community organization, union, political group or classroom. The members speak and write about a large number of topics, from various points of view. A meeting at Washington Square Park and then march to Bryant Park will add voice to speakers from South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Brazil, Kenya and Ghana in demanding action to stop global AIDS now.