... 27th, 1S74. The Fern Fairy, as impersonated by Seiiora Nita de Castro-who, although she bears a foreign name, speaks capital English, and speaks every word distinctly--is an excellentand graceful chararter all through the piece. With a voice of great power ...

... Channel Islands the same reasons, apart from all linguistic considerations, exist for speaking and studying English instead of French which existed in Alsace for speaking and studying French instead of German. French is so much simpler than German, and English ...

... 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 ...

... coarseness, as in all that Aphra Biehn wrote; but we are coming to the English Harlequin directly. His name was Jevons, a speaking Harlequin, and a very clever fellow indeed, with something of the Vokes Family; some- thing of Fred. Evans, something of ...

... truthfulness, speak of Chaucer as his master. The end of Dudman in Paradise is so exquisite that we are disposed to forgive the episode of the Saints-only we put it to the poet whether it is not doubtful art to make SS. Peter, Paul, and Thomas speak and act ...

... late popelar actor who used to give such a sharp, hard articulation to the first two consonants in chivalry, affectation in speaking has long been a temptation that artists have frequently yielded to, although we must admit that it is a fault much rarer ...

... 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 ...

... when he speaks of the virtues of the clans of Struan and Kinloch- Moidart, whose Celtic fire and genius saved him from the disgrace of being nothing better than a sluggish, torpid, prosperous English squire. Of hismaternalgrandmother he speaks with en ...

... 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 ...

... friars speaking as such men would naturally speak; because in his plays people go to confession, talk of holy church and ghostly fathers; because he makes Isabella, his female masterpiece, a nun ; because the Duke, in As You Like It,' speaks of being ...

... supplied by his exact counterpart on a Liliputian scale. Everything about Signor Carrion, the second experimental tenor we are speaking of, is pretty, except his name. His voice is small, but sweet and well managed, and the agility of his diminutive gestures ...

... works of others. And Sir Francis Goldsmid has particular claims, barred, we believe, solely by his own uncommon modesty, for speaking with authority upon the subject he discusses. He has been for some time at the head of the Persian telegraphs, a purely British ...