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edited the Shaw-Terry correspondence and an annotated volume of Terry's memoirs. Apart from a book of recollections, little has been published about Edy; a biography is long overdue. The author offers few new insights into Terry's stage work. Unless a role can be connected to her theories on Terry's offstage life, Auerbach skims over it. A potentially useful chronology includes many seemingly peripheral events, but omits most of her roles. Auerbach also constructs elaborate sexist motivations to explain Irving's refusal to stage As You Like It, so Terry could play Rosalind, a most suitable character for her wellhoned skills. But there is evidence that Irving avoided As You Like It because it contained no co-starring role for himself. And when Auerbach suggests that Terry's creative energies were in 'chains at the Lyceum', (p. 247), she unfairly ignores the fact that under Irving's management Terry played a staggering range of roles including an impressive number of Shakespearean ones from Juliet to Lady Macbeth. Auerbach notes that in her 1908 memoirs 'Ellen Terry shapes her memories with a novelist's suggestiveness' (p. 36). For better and worse, the same must be said of Auerbach's book. Wabash College JAMES FISHER

Increasingly, professional foresters are expected to participate in communication and consultation processes to present specialised knowledge to non-foresters. However, forest management is increasingly complex; forestry is too important to be left in the hands of those who do not understand its intricacies. In this tongue-in-cheek paper, we provide professional foresters with twelve easy-to-use tips to ensure that presentations to non-foresters remain hermetic, confuse the public and preserve the exclusivity of our professional competence. Forging an unclear message, finding a bad title, and failing to adjust to listeners are just the first steps to success in boring an audience. Over-confidence in technical gadgets and an over-powering use of presentation backgrounds, fonts, and special effects will add to the confusion. Furthermore, efforts should be made to conceal the key message by hiding the big picture, maximizing the quantity of information, and using slides that no one will remember. Jargon is highly effective and should be used wherever possible. The speaker should treat the audience as an amorphous crowd, avoiding contact with individuals and dodging questions. We finally suggest using the last slide as an ultimate weapon to ensure that everyone leaves the room more confused than when they arrived. We hope that these simple tips will help professional foresters across Canada to make the most of opportunities for presentations, thereby reinforcing the correct role of the public in forestry. Key words: presentation, communication, public consultation RÉSUMÉLes professionnels forestiers sont de plus en plus sollicités pour participer activement aux processus de consultation. On leur demande de partager leur savoir technique avec un public non forestier. Or, l'aménagement forestier se complexifie; la foresterie est trop importante pour être laissée aux mains d'un public qui n'en comprend pas les subtilités. Dans cet article à caractère ironique, nous proposons aux professionnels forestiers douze astuces qui leur assureront que leurs présentations publiques demeureront hermétiques, qu'elles brouilleront la compréhension des auditoires, et qu'elles contribueront ainsi à préserver l'exclusivité de nos compétences professionnelles. Élaborer un message confus, choisir un mauvais titre et négliger d'ajuster le discours à l'auditoire ne sont que les premières étapes pour réussir à ennuyer le public. Une confiance exagérée envers les moyens techniques, couplée à une utilisation à outrance d'une diversité de fonds d'écran, de polices de caractères et d'effets spéciaux ajoutent à la confusion. De plus, des efforts doivent être mis pour dissimuler l'idée maîtresse, maximiser la quantité d'informations et concevoir des diapositives qui sont rapidement oubliées. L'utilisation du jargon est très efficace et doit être favorisée. Le conférencier doit considérer l'auditoire comme une foule anonyme, éviter les contacts visuels directs avec les individus, et esquiver les questions. Finalement, nous suggérons d'util...