... acquire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously spoke ...

... acqluire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously sp oke ...

... the lords of the woild themselves. I speak not of Venice or Florence, of Trier or of Ravenna. I speak of cities of a class one degree lower. I speak of the last home of Carolingian kingship on the rock of Laon. I speak of the walls of successive ages spreading ...

... The Hammersmith Dramatic Club. 1W7ho Speaks First? The Fool's Revenge, and Diamond Cut Diamond, were performed at the Bijou Theatre, Notting-hill, on Thursday night, by the members of the above-named Society. During the greater part of the time that the ...

... y, and who speaks with idiomatic and easy fluency when seated in a chair, cannot rise from that chair to address the very audience he has just been speaking to but forthwith his mental attitude is altered; he thinks commonplaces and speaks platitudes: ...

... hissed down. (Laughter and cheers.) Bad actors must be condemned. (Cheers.) Be wished he could speak better, but his excuse must be that hisforte was to speak the words of others. lie thanked them sincerely for the honour of conneoting his name with the ...

... art of speaking well, and might be subdivided into conviction, per- seasion, style, and delivery. It was with the last of these sub- divisions, delivery or elocution, that they had to deal. Elocution he defined as the art of reading and speaking distinctly ...

... and Alsace are concerned. But why make the fact patent in print? The tone of the work, too, is very disagreeable. Mrs. Lee speaks of her dislike for ' thc conceited, domineering Teutons, of the huddled-up Belgians, a ' loose and shambling maidservant ...

... than a trifle. too sentimental over him. In the great biography, when Golds~mith speaks you have no doubt wvhose the voice is but in Mr. Moore's -story Goldsumitlh speaks by deputy-a very clever deputy, but only a deputy after all, and every now and again ...

... circumstances fitted to call forth strong passion they speak passionately, and many lines of eloquence and of poetical feeling will be found in these plays. The dragntis personce speak poetically, but they speak also consistently with their position; and it is ...

... and Other Poems (Kegan Paul). In his Any Dreimer to His Dream he seems to give the keynote to his own verse, for he speaks not only of his love for nature, but also of the gentle melancholy with which much of his poetry is informed. I feel the beauty ...

... commcrcial schemes in which he may have personal interest, is, at all events in Mr. Florence's hands, an amusing personage ; not speak of other littlo peculiarities indicative both of defective education and of natural humour, which last night contributed in ...