Modern Parliamentary Eloquence : The Rede Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, November 6, 1913

80pp, indexed. In red cloth-covered boards, blind ruled, with gilt lettering (boards a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips, small nick in cloth on mildly sunned backstrip) Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Elegant bookplate on the front free endpaper indicating the volume once belonged to Fionn Murrough Manning O’Brien, the noted magazine marketing executive. Only a small portion of this Lecture was delivered at Cambridge. The whole is published in this volume, as a more comprehensive study, tracking the history and development of parliamentary eloquence and rhetoric from the earliest times but focussing on the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century, with compelling assessments of the talents of leading parliamentarians of the times, such a such as Parnell, Asquith, Redmond, the Earl of Rosebery, Winston Churchill, Bonar Law, etc. Slim 8vo.