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THE ART OF SPEAKING

... ultimate In ill success. The moment they try to speak, all tlseir asfeelings, thoughts, facts, and purposes, either crowd to the tongue or fly altogether, and leave it d.utterly bankrupt of words. Those who can speak r asdo 'not often hring credit on the gift ...

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS

... athigh prices, while in many cases the meagre attendance would almost lead us to the conclusion that there is, com- paratively speaking, but a small portion of our community who truly appreciate fine music. Be this as it may, how- ever, the concert of Saturday ...

FASHIONS FOR MAY

... the benefit of our usual tour of inspection. The pardessus occupies ,considerable attention at the present moment. We must speak of several, the productions of one of our first houses, varying from the most sumptuous, trimmed with many yards of hand- some ...

JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND

... purse. But we are sick of these comparisons, and will carry them no farther—to do so were a work of su- pererogation—they speak for themselves in a language that cannot be misunderstood by enlightened and impartial men. If a Scotch Secretaryship were ...

THE THEATRE

... effusions of the Poet seemed to evaporate in a sort of unmeaving and not very euphonious plaiat. it is painful to be compelled to speak in these terms of a stranger, baz we could come to no other conclusion, and the audience, with every wish to be indulgent, ...

FESTIVAL OF SCOTTISH MUSIC—PRIZE COMPETITION

... rendered with a degroe of skill not certainly inferior to anythinig of the kind we have lately listened to, and that gene- rally speaking, the vocalisation wvas strikingly effective, our readers will understand why it was that an Edinburgh audience, usually so ...

LITERATURE

... the / transformed into lea, &e. Cer- inly such blunders are les repens bot cn a Pa less so. The au « The hy instance, when speak ing of the i calls them les hautes Volailles, meani ay, of has thet of poultry ; and the passage in which this gross blunder ...

ORIGINAL POETRY

... ignorant past, Young labour wan passive and weak, And in spite of his temples and pyramids vast, None deignled of lis mecrits to speak; For thc sword of tho slayer was then of more worth Than thic tool of an nrtizan's trade, When destruction nlone could inherit ...

UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION AT DUMFRIES

... were first-class animals. We being unable to in ly high terms of commendation of the Ayrshire stock. It is not Fogret easy to speak too favourably of the of which we have never seen & . There was a very good show of ne and Dumfries have long been good breeding ...

THE OPERA

... the concert-room, from which we augured well of her qualifications for the stage. Of Signor Neri Baraldi we are enabled to speak more confidently, for, having heard him sing more than once, we venture to predict that his first appearance will at once ...

MONS. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS

... Quadrille and General Havelock'T Triumphal march ; these, with the dance music, it is almost superfluous to say, when speaking of Jullien's Orchestra, were effectively and admirably executed; some of the solos introduced being loudly applauded, and ...

Literature

... as possible from all comiment upon tbem. Like most Frenchmen M. Fleury sympathises strongly with . the Stuart family. lie speaks of Jamee 1H. rather more as a martyr than we are in the habit of considering him, and his Jacobite :principles show themselves ...