... 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 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 ...

... art of speaking well, and might be subdivided into conviction, per- seasion, style, and delivery. It was with the last of these sub- divisions, delivery or elocution, that they had to deal. Elocution he defined as the art of reading and speaking distinctly ...

... are so advanced and the supe- riority to old world prejudices is so decided that it is determined, with no opposition to speak of, that people should for their own good mid for the general well-being of the State, submit to voluntary extinction at the ...

... now speaking of the time when dramatic exhibitions bad their origin among the Greeks. I am not speaking of the time when Rome placed her actors in the lowest class, despised them, and deprived them of the right of suffrage. I am not even speaking of a ...

... advocates of working men's rights have done before him, a useful party hack; that is all. At any rate, he has done nothing worth speaking oL for the working classes of England. his nominal constituents notwithstanding he has had ample opportunii- tics for advancing ...

... I am going to say unconsciously, instinc- tively, as it were, and then I say it, and in speaking I thin again- conscious action to speak and to think what I speak? * All Amon the Barley. By Flora Hayter. Three vots. (London: F. V. White and Co. eH ...

... cleverness or originality to us. Some of the best sayings of the world have now become truisms, and lost their point, so to speak, from the very fact of their excellence. The closer we suppose nwit to be to wisdom, the higher wve shall rate the Greeks ...

... scarcely imagine any walk in life which, if followed consistently, possessed so many ups and downs as the actor's. She was no' speaking of those who, coached by West-end professors, and supported by West-end friends, took minor parts for a few months only, ...

... but united Erderally, so to speak, withl tile Royal college, and ruled over bya municipal senate consisting of mem- bers selected from the affiliated colleges and the Royal college. It wts on the university aspect, so to speak, of the college that he had ...

... have lured him in here for the night. I have conceived a sudden and violent affection for him. He is learned and mild; he speaks no English, and very little French, and I cannot disguise from myself that he is a trifle heavy-but still I am learning to ...

... and even in his reconcilia- tion with his young wife failed to convey to the audience the idea that he was doing more than speaking the words. He wants more freedom with his hands and arms, more ease in action and attitude, and some little heart in his ...