... Rice defined reading to be, artificial speaking and Walker calls it, an imitative art, which has eloquent speaking for its model, as eloquent speaking is an imita- tion of beautiful nature. Hence, reading is to speaking what a copy is to an original picture ...

... thus remain; No brighter time can come for you and me, And all regrets are vain. It might have been! Ah, no, I cannot bear To speak those words my eyes are dim with tears. Life lies before me, loveless, bleak, and cold, Through all the lonely years. And yet ...

... THE NAVY.—A fact which is communicated by a correspondent who is to be relied on, speaks volumes as to the destitution of topmasts in ou.r great naval arsenals at this moment. A nobleman, a member of the Yatch Club, lost his topmast about three weeks ...

... THINGS BY RIGHT NAMES! What noble names we give to tlrings of sin As spirit rectified we speak of gin Blue devil'd, here, in alcoholic hell, Spirits'' so rectified, blue ruined, dwell. The only drop of cordial in their curse, They will yo farther ...

... bargee can fix a portable telephone on it at any place, and speak to the termini. Afterwards, as an experiment, the microphones were discon- nected, and the Ader Recepteurs alone tried by speaking close, and loud conversation was carried on more faintly ...

... bourhood. And last week again she distributed a large quantity of warm clothing to the indigent poor. This charitable act speaks aloud to others that have it in their power, Go thou and do likewise.' ...

... For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak. TENNTSON. ...

... BIRTHS. SPEAK:IIAN.—On tbe 22nd mst., at Lanclay Hall, Gla- morgan, Lady Spearman, of a son. LLEWELYN.—On the 24th inst., at Risca House, Risca, the wife of L. Llewelya, of a son. DEATHS. TOYE.—On the 19th inst., at St.- Theuirie, Chepstow, Emily Frances ...

... FIRST, beside. The dawn is overcast! A solitary bell The mournful truth must tell How oft my SECOND was his lot—and worse, It speaks of brutal blows-of drunkard's curse, But her tired spirit finds repose at last. He feels it not. A life of sin, Of crime a ...

... CHARADES. (No. 8.) Oh sorely vexed—oh greatly tri,j! Where shall thy bruised spirit hide, Where stay thy ruined mind ? My miy speak long hours of thought, Till reeled the madden'd brain to find Escape, my SECOND brought. Yes, Comfort came-she put aside Her ...

... MR KEiR HARDIE ON THE GOAL TRADE. Speaking at a largely-attended meeting held at the Limehouse 1 own-hall in support of the Nationalisation of Mines Bill, Mr J. Keir He-die, M.P.. said that the Bill he had intro- duced had been fitly described as the ...

... Palmerston 'the noble Viscount,' pronouncing the word properly. And further, if Mr. Williams does not always speak wisely, he certainly speaks correctly. And he is a very respectable, honest, charitable, and worthy man. This is his character both in the ...