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 a