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Show Whine from Henry James. Henry James, pursuing his theme, "The Speech of Amorlcan Women," apeaka of a group of lioston young women, "all articulating as from sore mouths, all mumbling nnd whining and vocally limping and shuffling as It were together." Ho compares, also to Its great disadvantage, a school whore parents pay so much not to havo tholr boys taught to speak as gentlomcn, with one "beyond the sen, in which the proviso that tho schoolmaster shall speak as u gentleman Is so absolutely abso-lutely vital." |