... PUBLIC SPEAKING. PROFESSOR HUXLEY attributes man's pre-eminent position in nature to a pair of nerves that supply the muscles of the glottis. Upon these nerves depends the power of speech, and it is the power of speech that con- stitutes and makes ...

... in the same vein, and had deservedly the same success. It is certainly remarkable that, considering the enormous amount of speaking to which the House of Commons listens, such an effect as Air. Brright produced should be of extreme rarity. But there are ...

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... Webster amounted to something like idolatry. The Americans still speak extremely well-far better on the average than Englishmen-but their respect for skilful and effective public speaking appears to have greatly declined. It may almost be said that there ...

... SPEAK UP! AFTER a month's interval of examination and inquiry the consideration of the Irish Local Government Bill will be resumed to-day. Mr. GERALD BALFOUR ought not to expect, and, not being a pure idealist, he, presumably, does not expect, that the ...

... mere question of speaking a brief dialogue; for a regular conversation is a very different thing. Take French, for example. You may speak excellent French, and speak it with a very tolerable accent; you may be able to go on speaking, so as to be perfectly ...

... LEFT SPEAKING. THiE announcement which we were able to make yesterday that the Government have decided to offer no opposition to the re-election of Mr. GULLY as Speaker, will be received with general satisfaction. It was by no means an easy problem to ...

... PRiNCE BZISI1ARCK SPEAKS. ACCORDIN G to the Daily Telerap/ of this morning, one of its correspondents has had a conversation wit h Prince Bismarck of the highest importance, and the correspondent repeats to the world the dialogue, such, at least,. as ...

... of Lords; Sir Richard Cross has given notice that he proposes to omit it, and omitted it will be unless the country speaks out, and speaks at once. The fourth and last point is that, while no fresh arbitrary power in any shape or form shall be given to ...

... THE USE OF PLAIN SPEAKING. HER Majesty's Opposition were at pains on Friday night to anticipate the most appalling consequences from Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH'S speech on the credit to the Egyptian Government. The language of menace had been used, and the ...

... WHO SPEAKS FIRST? I.N Newton first lighted on the idea of gravitation, we are told that he r olce sought to explain by means of it the motions of the moon. But S his time the dimensions of the earth were imperfectly known, and the *ta at his hand did ...

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