... SINGING AND SPEAKING. BY ALFRED AUGUSTUS NoRmT. London: North's Academy, 23, York-place, Portman-square, W. A Practical Guide for Training Singers and Speakers is what Professor North's new book pur- ports to be. The author claims that his method ...

... SPEAKING POTTERY AN interesting an.] important characteristic of the pot-house pottery of a hundred and fifty years ago was the literature which adorned it. In the taverns and alehouses of the eighteenth century it was the custom to decorate the mugs ...

... THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING.* SOME HINTS FROM AMERICA. The Americans are notoriously much better public speakers than we tongue-tied Britons. Any American, without notice or preparation, cat make a neat, finished little speech, with a beginrning, mniddle ...

... Dupont Vernon writes-' Speak to a friend in the street after havingrun to join him; you speak with the chest register; leave the bedroom of your sick mother with the physician. and say to him these simple words, Well! doctor? Speak in a room of which the ...

... 891 g - numbered 1,776,405 soulst.- Of e' .-7-59A4i6. are put down as English . speaking; .5O8f3~~6 a:'Welsh-speaking; 402,253 as speaking both -languaes; 3,076 as. speaking other languages; and 9°791 as infants, while 12,833 made no return. It is interesting ...

... martyrs. Yet, though possessing neither civil nor re- ligious liberty, he could speak with con- fident tones of the Oliristian's liberty in Christ Jesus. And so speaking he claimed as the inhersnt privilege of everyv true Christians that internal liberty ...

... to be heard by a thirtd petson who is in the next apartment. In these cases you speak wvith the chest register. Every time iii a word that you speak in a low voice you speak from the chest, otherwise called tc nudi itn. Observe these two men in this di ...

... Ronald Baino P An' have ye seen my Will P Why are ye silent? Speak, I say i Au', oh, my breast, be still ! I bear ye cry, I see your face Cast toarfu' a' aroun'. Speak-for the love o' lieav'n, speak I Or else I surely swoon. My ance bright sight is growin' ...

... To these must be added the sketches for pictures now in the Royal Academy- such, for example, as II The Conjurer. Speak ! Speak ! had germinated in the painter's mind for five-and-twenty years, he told me, before he set about carrying it out. An ...

... should be performed by amateurs. Recently we have had to speak of a representation of Much Ado About Nothing at St. George's Hall, and now the amateurs in a play of still greater difficulty. We can speak, upon the whole, with commendation of Ye Tabard Pilgryms ...

... distrustful of his ability to speak English, 1. Rivibre used to carry a card with 'J'rafalgar-square written plainly upon it. This, when he lost himself, he showed to a policeman, and as he often did so without speaking a word, lie was more than once ...

... than a trifle. too sentimental over him. In the great biography, when Golds~mith speaks you have no doubt wvhose the voice is but in Mr. Moore's -story Goldsumitlh speaks by deputy-a very clever deputy, but only a deputy after all, and every now and again ...