PREFATORY NOTE THE orations and essays of Mr. Phelps contained in this volume have been selected from a large number of his posthumous works. They cover a wide range of subjects, professional, literary, and biographical, all treated with the same free hand and in his customary clear, eloquent, and forceful style. The selections illustrate his style, his intellectual fibre, his unflinching courage, his strength, his mental grasp, his lofty and independent bearing in thought and action, and constitute a fitting memorial of the man. J. G. McC. |