... sisters, upon myself. . . It was in this situation, weighed down by a sense of all the mischief I had done, that I tried to speak. I broke down signally and miserably, my nerves going with a sort of crash. What a position! I might have recovered myself ...

... he fails to indicate that redeeming good feeling which Mr. Coghlan rendered so effective. Of the Moses of Mr. Odell we can speak in the highest terms. Mr. Forrester's Joseph Surface has none of the subtle insidious fascination, though it has all the h ...

... For a painter of contemporary manners such qualities are as invaluable as they are rare. Mr. McCarthy's subject is, broadly speaking, modern society; but the ordinary paraphernalia of the so-called society novel, the balls, the dinners, with detailed bills ...

... did not personally know him at all. He replied 'Y ou must, for I heard him say that you gave him his first lesson in public speak- ing.' I went to a subsequent meeting and recognised the young 'Friend' of 1832. The advice seems to have taken root in Mr ...

... fairly in- terestitng, and Americans at home are aptly described by Catherine Ropley. Flee Portrait (cart 15) contains a speaking like- ness, as the phrase runs, of Arthur Sullivan, which is apropos at the present moment when the Sorcerer i 5 I i I i ...

... written by Mr G. V. Keast and Mir Vance, and called Fair Rosamond; or, the King, the Queen, and the Donce to Pay, in which she speaks the lines allotted her with telling effect, and makes a decided hit by her pleasant -shall we say saucy 9 - interpretation ...

... of actiig, too, is the Quashybungo of Mr Sn-.ith. Mbiso Eva Ross-Church as Lotus, the Spirit of the Roses, plays well, and speaks the lines intrusted to her very pretthly; and Milss Talbot as the Spirit of Evil plays ahd looks capitally. MiiSS Kate Mandlebert ...

... this particular branch of art; for the history of water-colour painting as illustrated at the Grosvenor Gallery is, broadly speaking, nothing more than the history of English landscape; and, on the other hand, these Norwich painters, although for the most ...

... to depreciate beau- tiful work, however brilliant the rhetoric employed in the process, and it was certainly misleading to speak ill of the frescoes at Santa Maria Novella. But the distinction which Mr. Ruskin marked with such excess of emphasis is one ...

... is sensibly handled by Professor Newman, in Fraser. He speaks also of the difficulty of imparting a correct pronunciation. Where are poor children to learn this? Their parents and neighbours speak the local dialect of the place; the modern certificated ...

... centuries. More than once it had been mainly instrumental in saving our Indian settlements, or factories, when these were, so to speak, clinging to life by the slkin of their teeth. A considerable acquaintance with the records of the Navy is, in fact, essential ...

... Arthur Stirling's performance of Rysoor. Of Mr. Hermann Vezin's stern portrait of the Duke of Alva it would be difficult to speak too highly. Mr. Brooke, who plays Karloo, has youth and good looks on his side, but he has acquired a style of declamation ...