... THE SECRETARY SPEAKS. W The following circumstances, drawn from the per, sonal experience of Mr I-sac Wbick, of the 'Borongh n Arms, Dndley Street, Wednesbury, are so important and really remarkable that they cannot help but be i, of interest and value ...

... frequently the least ef-. fective of speakers, except on professional questions, t e and in speaking against time ? With muany of them L d the faculty of public speaking is an art, and nothing E Is more, and no fluency can redeemn cimuaon-places and .o platitudes ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. e IF Mr Disraeli was chargeable with mystification at o the beginning of the Royal Titles Bill debate, he spoke i very plainly at the end-many people say too plainly. I He has been assailed on many hands, although not F n with the concentrated ...

... SPEAKING- LIGITHOUS SaS.,. -* The grounp-lashhitg systemi gives a very charac- terisao iigbt, and uoe n;ot to be CoLmouLided eirher with a fixed light or with one whicu fiwsies at equidisanti intervais of time. lt also permits of great variety. It is ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. i Ona of our inumerousAustralistis VisitRwID.t sum- .~nr'~as'writenin the 1 'Mellbire Agg eoliiesabot is,ibit to Edinburghn'lso st' arrangeme Int mdfothrceion aud entertain, of, scent of the vsirsyter hosts--the Tow of Council. The re~ ...

... leaves nothing that could ha d^- Lssired, his ?? on a question which is perh^cue of the most vital interest to the English-speaking obrotherhood-to uso his own ?? eny r that could lie before them, and, although h T mayv : not agree an detail with all his ...

... IPLAIN SPEAKING AT BELHELVIE. I THERE is a time for all things, and as the time for plain speaking on the present posi- tion of the Govein-nent has more than arrived, the speeches last night at Bellielvie were a welcome relief to a good deal of the tame ...

... has introdaced into London a s8itelpfn which some time siiV'e`iiinsd YM 'imt'erlitain Germany fortwn~hig'dtrnr persoim to speak. Td thbt hajority:of.b theobn& ityihi5Diay'ap'. pear a startliug, pay, Itn absurd' propoeition, but it is one nevertheless ...

... CAN ANIMALS SPEAK? This question possesses a great interest for a' s most persons, whether avowedly students of I science or not. That amount of reflection of t! higher life which we see, or suppose we see, in 7 lower existence would of itself tempt ...

... barren and unfruitful a disquisition, j but to sav something more. There is before me the whole range.-of the universe to speak about, because in itssecular aspect, and its ecclesiastical i aspect, a chrabh room may be held to contain all J human subjects ...

... TEACELNG THE DUMB D) SPEAK. Co - tO ~~Br Ba~r. Term 'Lvs. to- D. Some say the age of mfrahes p3 Ps- =, rather saT, in view of the ra3a.w, te:e-. ?? or to phone, printing pressphor ig light, that the age of miraclee ?? m Miaking the dumb speak rsec ?? it It is ...

... it up now? Only a sentence from a letter. Thia- I was so weak that for years I had to be carried upstairs to bed. A lady speake thus of her girlhood. What a pitiable thing. It Is not what nature meant; but alas ! too often what really happens in this ...