11 APRIL 1891, page 7

Lord Dufferin On Public Speaking. Persuasiveness. Indeed,...

affects us much more by virtue of the force of character, the energy of conviction, which it expresses, than by virtue of the mere argumentative skill or the rhetorical......

Sir James Stephen's Resignation.

W E cannot record the resignation of Mr. Justice Stephen. with any sense of pleasure, or even of relief. It was announced with much dignity, and in a scene of a certain pathos ;......