... technique of his Wiork, the chapters that Professor Lee devotes to such subjects as Preparation for Public Speaking, Extem- poraneous -Speaking, and Debate are singularly lucid and informintlg. They are admiirable expositions of the great art of the ...

... a4dressing their readers in the kind of language which the readers themselves speak. Such being the case, it is assumed also that the dialect in which the characters speak is a dialect distinct from that used by the readers: and this assump- tion implies ...

... but the last of them has for title, Age is not Dotage. His popularity 'is legendary. Not more than seven million people speak the tongue in which he writes, and of these scarcely one in three can read, but the total of. his books sold amounts to over ...

... Grant Richards) in no respect less clever and amusing than their first venture. Of Mr. Begbie's share it is not necessary to speak at length, for his position is merely librettist to Mr. Gould, but his verse is alwavs bright and iugenious, and not unworthy ...

... America is taught the art of acting. This art is here defined as ,the: art of seeming to move, speak, and appear on the stage as the character assumed moves, speaks, and appears in real life, under the circumstances indicated in the play. Within those limits ...

... shall ruin a great banker, does, after all, lie in their hands. If the force is not habitually a prey to acute megalomania, it speaks volumes for their lack of imagination. And yet nobody that I know of has given us a sincere study of the policeman; he has ...

... Parler des poetes, as Sainte-Beuve observed, est toujours une chose bien delicate. It is particularly so when one has to speak in the same breath, and therefore, ciomparatively, of Mr. Stephen Phillips and M. Edmuond Rostand. On the oiie hand loom the ...

... must have finished with the shadow of the General Election upon himn, and corrected the final proofs in the intervals of speaking and canvassing in Central Edinburgh. You could not expect a chronicler to prove himself a Kinglake or Napier in such cir ...

... readily granted, and the news which follows is, perhaps, yet more startling thadn the initial rumour. But let Mime. Calve speak for herself. Yes,'. in answer to a direct query, it is quite true. I have decided to leave the stage-but only the operatic ...

... primitive device whereby before the marriage, Giovanni's mind is. perturbed by the visions of a semi-clairvoyante old nurse. In speak- ing of these characters as The Brother, The Wife, and The Husband, we unintentionally illustrated the nature of their relation ...

... rejected. The. unfortunate thing is that those seventeen voters represent more thali one-third of the meeting. It does not speak well for the foresight ot Glasgow. J AUSTRALASIAN BANKING. Several times last year we drew the attention of British investors ...

... option but to take it, and as regards Sir Redvers Buller's approval of the retirement, I imagine that Sir Redvers, if free to speak, would say that a position from which Colonel Thorneycroft thought fit to retire was not one in which any officer of discretion ...