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

... eleven in the evening should be the hours during which plain speaking should have the rule in every Temple of Thespis where his votaries are collected. Hamlet may tell the players to speak tie speech trippingly on the tongue, but the value of such a rendition ...

... MARK TWAIN SPEAKS OF WOMEN. The following is the text of Ir Clemens's reply to the toast, Womasi-God bleas her, at the New England supper at New York recently:- The toast includes the sex, universally-it is to women, comprehensively wheresoever she ...

... MARS. CHARLES CALVERT SPEAKS. Mrs Charles Calvert, captured recently by a Blan- chester man of an inquiring turn of mind, furnished him with a few facts and enlightened him with a few opinions that may prove interesting and instructive to our readers ...

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... artist had felt it impos- sible to speak in, public ; and I may add that I have yet to learn that the position of an actress deprives her of all right to consideration as a woman, and that she is compelled to speak lines which she instinctively feels ...

... of any education at all, learn to speak their own language correctly ; whereas, even elucated English people speak badly, and uneducated people-and man. actors and actresses come from the ranks of the Fbourgcosie-speak it (from the elocution point of view' ...

... of any education at all, learn to speak their own language correctly; whereas, even educated English people speak badly, and uneducated people-and many actors and actresses come from the ranks of the bourgeosie-speak it (from the elocution point of view> ...

... delivery. Neither at Oxford nor Cam bridge is speaking made a part of education. Men intending to enter the Church or the bar are never made to understand that there is a right and a wrong way of speaking. Many, indeed, imagine that such a study is beneath ...

... delivery. Neither at Oxford nor Cam- bridge is speaking made a part of education. Men intending to enter the Church or the bar are never made to understand that there is a right and a wrong way of speaking. Many, indeed, imagine that such a study is beneath ...

... womenll-men who have beemn to Oxford and Cam- bridge, ailwomeiwho live in Mayfair and drive dailvin the l'ark, speak well. They don't; they speak very- badly. They are not Cockney. Tfhey don't talk bad grammar, or shock the ear by false quantities ; but ...

... business by drink, and but once by illness ; I am not deformed nor lame, I have no dialect, though I can speak four, can be heard in any theatre, and speak English without the affectation growing so prevalent. While admiring the sweet sentiment of Peace ...