Battersea has been won and held by the speeches of its member.

It is not the mighty voice alone, silencing interruption often enough by sheer volume of sound, but the plainly pointed epigram, the ready jest and the quick repartee that endear Mr.John Burns' speeches to the multitude.

His sayings and phrases are quoted.

His wit is the wit of the Londoner--the wit that Dickens knew and studied, the wit of the older cabmen and 'bus drivers, the wit of the street boy.

It is racy, it is understood, and the illustrations are always concrete and massive, never vague or unsubstantial.