... 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 ...

... Frederick Leighton has sent one of his latest productions, while Sir John Millais is represented by the important work Speak, Speak, which has been acquired by the Roval Academy under the Chantrev Bequest. The other first-rank artists whose pictures ...

... 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 ...

... country, who bad seized the opportunity to pay a visit to Hawaidsn in the hope of seeing the ex-N Premier and hearing hint speak. Mr Herbert G Gladstone, ALP., and other members of the family B had taken an active part in the promotion of the LI ftte and ...

... 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 ...