... to put up with.-Madas Il Baronne (who will speak English)- And tell me, Mistress Brown, your clevaro 'usband, who 'ave a so beautiful talent-is ho yet of ze Royal Academy ? Our artist's wife (who will speak French)- OhD non, madame helas I Selennent ...

... ; most of the chief actors are personally known to MIr Steven- son, who expresses in his preface the hope that his plain speaking will not cost him any of his friends. The writing of the book was thus evidently a delicate task, and Mr Stevenson is to ...

... into as few word, .saihle. His points gain imiiensely the,. y. in running through the hook one comijoS across sonie straight speaking. What, for instance, could be miore direct than this :-'- it Is niot their temperaments that make shipwrecks of so ianIUy ...

... Still dealing with the past, Jamesone comes into view. There are those in Aberdeen who speak of him in the cold, balculatiig spirit of this very superior age. 'They speak of his portraits as wooden, and dub his pictures as daubs. In the School- hill Exhibition ...

... exhibitors could speak most. warmly, and they took the opoortunity of his retirement to express their thianks for all the assistanch lie had given to them and to their repre- sentatives. Of his services to the society it did not become them to speak, but the ...

... down we only now begin Where we before began, not knowing what Before us lies nor where thou art, But hark ! A unev voice speaks. ail 93, all hailI II. O bright New Year from out the great unknown Wliat joy you bring to all mankind. The ray Around you ...

... be pre&ent and as a laymAon wvas very glad he. woe not ciille on to speak from the palpit, He had certainly .as Mr Pringle said, tsoine -experience of platfrrn rsoeaking; butr to speak from the pulpit vWap a riore serious nder- takihg.. He exprosed his ...

... all exagger- ate the mannerism of their chief, and persist in rchanting their lines iii a stagey recitative, instead eof speaking them in a natural tone of voice, Slr Charles Craston, who plays the part of the hero's friend, Dick Royal, a famous traveller ...

... (Applause.) He thought the same applied very largely to their painting; they were going ahead in that, also. Proceeding to speak of the minor arts, he said the man 'who maode a good coal scuttle was infinitely better than the mnsan wvho painted a had picture ...

... tile artistes engaged in the piece follow upon each other in rapid succession from first to last,. Go-Bang has no plot to speak of. That is perhaps one of its, most pleasing features, r ,or the very humour of the Droduction forbids the t attention necessary ...

... the succeeding vowel. The stutterer is strong in his consonants, but weak in his vowels, and he usually speaks at a girat rate when 'he' does speak. In this way, also, his tongue is usually ahead of his brain;, afid he: caniit 'express his thoughts properly ...

... behalf of'hist ather'. It Wae, he said, hard enough and difficuilt enough on such an occasion to speak for one' solf-it was E astill more difficult to speak fri. '1oneafatber. Itt ai would be mast ungraciouslatd unfilial for him to a say or to hint that ...