... | THEITATRICAL ERA. ;I THE LOAN OF A WIFE, AT E 1LYCEUM..; * Mr. Wigan is said to be the author ofthe neiw burletta at this theatre, thodgfh, judgin'g from the ingenuity .displayed in the construction of the plots we should imagine the piece; to be of foreign extrac2 'tion, and 'that 'rIT. W. stood in the relation of -its dramatic godfathers rather than the absolute parent of the affair. He ...

... -EX T ROM OiEW BOOKS. THE SENsT5MENTS OF ITES PAGAN WORLD REGARDING sLAVES. Aristotle, the great patron of slavery, advising Alexander Ito deal with the Greeks as a general, but with the Barbarians as a master,' forcibly explains his meaning by adding, ' and to regard the former as friends and domestics, 'but to treat the latter as brutes and plants.' I According to the strict principle of ...