... THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING.* SOME HINTS FROM AMERICA. The Americans are notoriously much better public speakers than we tongue-tied Britons. Any American, without notice or preparation, cat make a neat, finished little speech, with a beginrning, mniddle ...

... Sunday's Journal des DebaU speaks with a milder tone upon the Swiss question. In this change its conduct resembles that of the limes, which has given over thundering for the Sonderbund to discover that '.he victorious party of Swiss comprise a threat ...

... withlthefurthei'advau- tago that they can speak and see, which Mr. Hunt's, ad- mirable as they are, cannot. Nothing is omitted in this picture but the soul of it. The artist is, or should be, a mau who speaks to men, whether in paint or marble, in verse ...

... commcrcial schemes in which he may have personal interest, is, at all events in Mr. Florence's hands, an amusing personage ; not speak of other littlo peculiarities indicative both of defective education and of natural humour, which last night contributed in ...

... the prisoner 6trike the woman over the head; in a few minutes afterwards she ceased to live. And now the accused about to speak. It is possible that, conseience-strickcn, he is about to make a clean breast of the perilous stuff that weighs upon it. ...

... are so advanced and the supe- riority to old world prejudices is so decided that it is determined, with no opposition to speak of, that people should for their own good mid for the general well-being of the State, submit to voluntary extinction at the ...

... PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC! AFFAIRS. Mr. Shavf-tiofcv*w, M.P., speaking Reading last night, said, much as regretted rcccnt events wotM And Government would no its best to put down the scenes of violence? and the law was not equal to the emergency they would ...

... exposition of facts from one who is qualified to speak with i authority on mechanical questions, and whose views are not coloured by personal interest. The opinion of one like yourself, Mr. Rigby, who can speak as an expert with full knowledge of the subject ...

... your own likeness. People some- times complain of writere, who talk of 1,J I. Speak to us, they exclaim, about ourselv s. Alas! when I speak to you of myself, I am speaking to you of yourselves also. Is it possible you do not feel that it is so ? Unthinking ...

... yesterday the anniversary of Mrrs. Booth's death was ceitebrated with special services by the Sulvatiun Ar-imiy. Strictly speaking. the 4t1 inst. should have been chosen for the celebration. that being the day, last year, -when the 'wife of General Booth ...

... attention have for the moat part beau long ago exploded. They are not, however, the less interesting on that account, not to speak of the numerous quaint contem- porary woodcut illustrations whicL the author has been at the pains to reproduce in these pages ...

... Wales and England. He is con- temnptuous of Sir John Seeley, who speaks of Holland and Sweden as nations who mav re- gard their history as in a manner wound up,' and of writers who speak of Holland as effete, of Belgium as doomed to absorption. of the ...