An Irish Cavalcade.

The second woman speaker was Miss M. Shortall, who exhibited to us an Irish Cavalcade, introducing Michael Collins. Miss Shortall wasted no time in showing why her hero was to be admired and mercifully spared us the grim details that too often seem to be considered essential to such a subject. She forbore from decorating her delivery with the studied brogue which an Irish subject usually calls forth at Plunket Medal time, and might also have dispensed with a slight acidity of tone that tended to spoil her effective sentences. Her place as third speaker was well deserved.