... chapter about Capri, another about St. Cloud; and one very short story. 'The title, Plain Speaking, applies naturally to the social essays, Plain speaking is generally understood to mean calling a spade a spade, and a very unpleasant sort of thing ...

... THE VOICE IN SPEAKING AND SINGING. TnE second of the series of lectures in connectior with the Ladies' Collegiate School was delivered it Ist night in presence of a large audience by 1r,. i Walter Buck, Professor of Singing and Vocat r Physiolo,,. ...

... vanquished doubt - With the morning's stainless freshness pulsing my yearning bremt, Speak to my soul my Saviour, and give me of Thy rest. Speak to my heart, Lord Jeaus ;speak with the still emall voles, With the joy of the spirits bringing, oh I bid my heart ...

... SPEAK TO MY HEART. [A SONOG] Mteld of wisdotm, dearest one, Ctlma the heart whiob thou hnst won, 1 et it thrib with thine alone, 1keep it only as thino own, In tby besi-m it must bo, Eilver bound nnd ove; irec. Breatho upmn this heart of thiro, Vo ords ...

... MB. GLADSTONE SPEAKING THE TBUTH Mr. Gladstone is evidently of opinion that young men are endowed with a power of swallow- ] ing falsehoods denied tooldermen. His speech at the Eighty Club on Tuesday was, he took pains to show, addressed to his young ...

... AN EXPERT ON AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING. IN Mr. Lo,,,ell's last volume of poems there is heartsease as well as rue. The late Minister is an optimist, and he knows it:-- For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side ...

... MR. CARL ROSA SPEAKS. At the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, a perform. ance of The Star of the North brought the Carl Rosa two months' opera season to a close last Saturday night the house being then crowded to its fullest limits. At the end of the second ...

... AGRICULTURAL REVIEW. Aberdeen, Friday. The state of matters, meteorologically speaking, is really becoming serious. Here we are with St Patrick’s Day behind us, and large tracts of country still covered with snow ; turnips, in many cases, daily deteriorating ...

... POETRY. I _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _~ ?? SEASIDE VOICES. Speak to our storm-worn hoarts, 0 restless ocoan, Whcu tho bright morning stills your fieroo comnmotion, i And sarges break in mncsie on thiO strand; Toll of the peace that shall life's ...

... yezar since, Mr. John Fleming ac- )centuated the fact that in Irish-speAking districts the results fees earned for teachers by pupils are c.ensiderably higher than those in English-speak- ing. He gave in detail the statistics which bore out his contention ...

... The gardener's darling daughter. Oh, but the hours go by (Young people, won't you try?) Trampling the heather, Blue sky and speaking eye, And two together ! lie gazes in the maiden's eyes- Of course she blushes nicely; lie glances at tie happy skies- The ...

... gentlemen, Are- sttaiing out-ohildren's lives away, And making our sisters' souls their prey. They tell me tales that I cannot speak, Stories of virtue,-pure, though weak,- Batterod, and soiled, nd robbed of fmne, And loft for ever to live in shame. They tell ...