... much in the larguiiage itself as in the fact that speaking is not taught in a systematic matnner on scientific principles. People learn sinlging, but speaking is supposed to come by nature, and the speaking voice is therefore left to be formed by acci- dent ...

... power and the results of patient work and studious thought. It is, however, rather as a decorative artist that we would now speak of Mr. Poynter. As such he belongs to a comparatively new school in England, for it is not so very long since the simplest ...

... justice to say thait they did not seem to reiqure the aid of a prompter, or miapronoonce their words: as mnany persons do who speak publicly in places of this kind. The pleasant, ladylike accent with which Miss Rose Montague, 'wh6' asumed the name of Kate ...

... chiefly remarkable for ?? in which the composer seems to have anticipated the development of his genius. The annotated programme speaks of it as characterized by magnificent pathos, and s0 it is ; while at the same time the movement shows that original and ...

... entertainment, interspersed with clever dialoguc. Its music is of the old popular kind, which does not require any voice to speak of; and its literary pretensions do not rise above clever puns of the old-fashioned verbal species. But its action is brisk ...

... acting by those most competent of living dramatic judges to speak with authority upon the subject. One, pre-eminent when on the boards for unsullied fame and admirable histrionic powers, speaking of Miss Bateman In a private letter, says admiration of her ...

... representation of Litle Toddlekins. Mr. C. Harley played the part of Mr. Jones Robinson Blrownsmith with much humour, though, speaking collo- quially, it may be said that his highly respectable effort would have been improved by more rattle and go. MIss Bruce ...

... unable to. speak the vernacular of Bengal, they designate Kokees. . The greater number of the people at present living in the Chittagong'Hills came about two generations ago from Arracan. They are called the a' Children of the River; they speak the anciert ...

... in diction or in movement. WVe are constantly with English boys and girls, English ladies and gentlemen of a good class,who speak and act in a probable manner. The work is at the same time tinged with sufficient romance to render it, not indeed exciting ...

... and with it the beauti83 scenery and accessories which had been got together with so rnuch pains, it is not our province to speak. At any rate, the Pictures, the 6gures, the dresses, the limelight, the ?? and all the parapherualia which so assisted the ...

... than Mr. Fuiswell. Ile is of those who imagine that a surface familiarity with authors and authorship bestows the right to speak and to be heard con- Modern Aron of Letters honestly Criticized. BY J. Haia Fri3wal. (ra,0ta, pfodder and Stoughton. 10i) ...

... who did not acquit themselves respectably. Miss Hargraves, who assumed the character of Mrs. Militant in the comedietta Who Speaks First ? with the performance of which the-proceedings commenced, and Miss Mabel Phillips wvho essayed the part of Smart in ...