... chapter about Capri, another about St. Cloud; and one very short story. 'The title, Plain Speaking, applies naturally to the social essays, Plain speaking is generally understood to mean calling a spade a spade, and a very unpleasant sort of thing ...

... AN EXPERT ON AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING. IN Mr. Lo,,,ell's last volume of poems there is heartsease as well as rue. The late Minister is an optimist, and he knows it:-- For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side ...

... much in the larguiiage itself as in the fact that speaking is not taught in a systematic matnner on scientific principles. People learn sinlging, but speaking is supposed to come by nature, and the speaking voice is therefore left to be formed by acci- dent ...

... passage from the singing to the speaking and again from the speaking to the singing voice. This is the most important objectiprl Of all. But it may be added that in a large theatre it is difficult for singers using the speaking voice to make themselves heard ...

... language with which he speaks of the criminal luxury of the rich, singling out the life and death of John of Gaunt for especial condennation, and his candid reflections on the sins which beset the hedge-priests of Wales. When Ite speaks of the professors of ...

... which he generally speaks, but which he often transposes higher or lower in sympathy to other voices and when he is excited. The omnnibus conductors in London ordinarily call out in the key of B flat; but at busy places and hours they speak in a higher key ...

... and David Kennedy, jun. (Paisley and London: Alex. Gardner.) Mr. David Kennedy went round the world-that is, the English. speaking world, and India, singing Scotch songs. His first journey was made in i866 to the United States and Canada, and he died in ...

... his system there can be no doubt. There is, however, public speaking of different kinds, and the most trying kinds have probably never fallen within the author's personal experience. Speaking at a crowded and tumultuous political meeting-success in which ...

... acquire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously spoke ...

... acqluire language, and is dumb. A child of six years of age who speaks French is removed to England, where it hears no other language than English, and in the course of six months it will speak English with the same facility with which it previously sp oke ...

... the lords of the woild themselves. I speak not of Venice or Florence, of Trier or of Ravenna. I speak of cities of a class one degree lower. I speak of the last home of Carolingian kingship on the rock of Laon. I speak of the walls of successive ages spreading ...

... y, and who speaks with idiomatic and easy fluency when seated in a chair, cannot rise from that chair to address the very audience he has just been speaking to but forthwith his mental attitude is altered; he thinks commonplaces and speaks platitudes: ...