Krishnamurti and Kropotkin

Mr. Meek showed the other speakers two very important tilings about modern oratory. I hope the lesson will be learned. The first is that effect is gained by concentration of reason instead of by harmonious sonorous phrasing alone. Both if you can do it. But no wind. The second was the distinct and visible contact established naturally between speaker and audience. In a very few minutes Mr. Meek's outline of a few of Krishnamurti's beliefs, by their unexpected simplicity and unusual content, made a striking appeal to his hearers—an appeal that remained the only one of its kind that evening.

Jack Lewin's speech on Prince Kropotkin was a speech of lost opportunities. An excellent exposition of Kropotkin's philosophy, delivered in apt phrases and striking sentences, was marred by a persistent falling inflexion. Sentences such as "Oh! the mockery of it!" delivered without sufficient force, tended to become bathetic. Mr. Leewin's passage describing the community of the future temporarily revealed by a break in the clouds of time was one of the bright spots of the evening.