HANDBOOK FOR LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETIES

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by  GIBSON, LAURENCE M.

HANDBOOK FOR
LITERARY AND
DEBATING SOCIETIES

Jindbook for Literary
and Debating Societies

By Laurence M. Gibson, ma.

Including 84 Examples of Questions for Debate,
with Sommarized Arguments on both sides,

TENTH EDITION

Entizely revised nd greatly
Enlarged

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO

PREFACE TO THE TENTH
EDITION

‘As some of the questions debeted in the earlier editions
have since been practically settled, and others are no Ignger
of vital interest, a theroigh sevision of the whole book«
has been carried out, involving the deletion of mora than
a score of the old debates, the insertion of new ones in
their place, the revision of the remaining subjects, and
the compilation of an entirely new set of references for all
the debates in the book. For the compilation of these
references I am much indebted to the painstaking research
of Miss Florence G. Fidler.

Of course, no attempt has been made to provide a com
plete bibliography on each subject for debate, nor have
‘books been selected for their literary marit. The choice
has fallen on those works which best provide the debater
with compact information on the particular subject required,
and preferente has been given to those which are short,
lear, and easily obtained, Pamphlets, although on many
subjects of great value to the debater, are rarely quoted,
becanse they axe always ephemeral and rarely reprinted ;
on aff subjects of a propaganda nature they can be easily
obtained from the respective societies, the addresses of
which can be found in Whitaker's Almanack. Such stan-
dad works as Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, the
Bnoyclopedia Britannica, and the like, are not given a8

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