15 MAY 1869, page 17

The Speechmaker's Manual.*

SPEECHES, excepting only those of practised politicians, are, as a rule, bad ; indeed, we have little doubt that they were designed by Providence as trials of courage in the......

False Colours.* We Get A Little Weary Of Miss Thomas's

sketches of county life. They are as amusing in some respects as ever, the author having lost none of her keen perception of the forces which dominate English country society,......