... STRICTLY SPEAKING. What's Romance? inquired William, look'is llis history book. Father would have answered, but mother was too quick for him. Romance, my dear, she said, is a man's way of explaining things. ...

... said a century ago— My throat and lips when I am speaking are as dry as those of a man who is going to hanged. Lord Coleridge once inquired of Mr. Gladstone whether he ever felt nervous in public speaking. In opening a subject, often. was the answer; ...

... GENERALLY SPEAKING— By CANDIDA. | yor might write an article that j men aie more methodical than women,'' sairt young colleague of mine the day: he seemed 90 full the idea that T am sure could have written the article himself. Is right ; his assumption ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. The Paris Correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes :— mter esting sale of autographs has just taken place here. One of the most curious letters disposed by Mme. de Campari in the year VII. of the Republic to Joseph Bonaparte. It ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. GIFT OF THE GAB NOT GOOD ENOUGH. An atldre>s on the technique of public speaking was given at a meeting of the Birmingham Rotary Club by the Rev. Leyton Richards. There were, he said, three principal element^ vocalisation, preparation ...

... WRITING AND SPEAKING. Why do not men write as they speak Why do they not convey their meaning in books in the good racy English which they employ as the dinner table or when giving their household orders? Such are the absurd questions that are asked every ...

... SPEAKING FROM THE SKY. EVERY WORD DISTINCTLY HEARD FIFTY MILES AWAY Wireless telephony has now been definitely adopted on tbe London to Paris air route, states the Air Ministry, and its value in night flying was recently proved by test. Soon after a Haudley ...

... Conservative Speaking Competition The preliminary rounds for the Conservative National Speaking Competition, the final of winch will be held in London on December 3, were held in va-rious parts of the Midlands on Saturday afternoon. The Nuneaton team ...

... THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. The January Windsor contains an interesting paper by Mr. W. T. Stead on The Art of Public Speaking. He says:—Among the great mob orators or demagogues of our time, using the term in its best sense, the first place belongs ...

... the people ot Switzerland speak Gei-man, while the renainder divide four other languages among :hem, mainly French and Italian, the languages varying rule aecoiding to the proximity of the people to each country whose they speak. Public documents and notices ...

... A SPEAKING TIMEPIECE. Tie clock strikes time, sang Young Were Young more poetry from the striking timepiece. clock, inventrd v , hours and quarters 1» wheels actuate roll connected w>tn » belt, or rather recorded P ...

... LORD FISHER SPEAKS AGAIN. ** THE NAVY IS OBSOLETE FOR A WAR FEW YEARS HENCE. Lord Fisher has another letter the Time* in reply to his critics. I tell you again with emphasis, he says, the present Navy obsolete for war a few years hence. Stop the ...