From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book

Excerpt: "I cannot imagine a more disagreeable way of qualifying for the income tax," said one of America''s most noted after-dinner speakers to me when at a chance meeting he and I were discussing the joys and woes of the lecture platform. I must admit that in a way I sympathized with him; for I knew something of the sufferings endured for days and nights prior to one''s own public appearance as ...