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THE ANNUALS FOR 1851

... melancholy tale, founded ice fact, of an individual case, in which there was a fall from high station to obscurity, from wealth to abject 1 poverty-and worse than either of these, from the delicacy and beauty of a young and pure heart to the coldness and callous ...

LATER THEATRICALS, MUSIC, &c

... all I have in the world, to do the best he can with for my children, to whom I leave the love of a father, which I hope they'll leave as pure as he, in teaching them to be good boys, to study, work, and become honest members ol the world. All those whoh ...

Published: Sunday 28 March 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1690 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... doggrel verse in ain album or scrap-book, and some bookrscllers.are as ready to believe that a mass of trash, when compressed within, showy and gold-inlaid binding, cannot fail to find a readv and extensive sale. Judging from the work now under our notice ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... interest and magical splendour. Hun. dreds of lights are glancing in different directions, from the villages, towns, farms, and plantations on shore, and from tha magnificent floating palaces of steamers, that frequently lcok like moving mountains ...

LEAVES FROM MY SCRAPBOOK

... LEAVES FROM MY SCRAPBOOK. No. 6. Mottoes and Proverbs. 1. Mottoes. Any one who has read Scott's St. Ronan's Well, must remember the Yorkshire Baronet, who, wrath at having got up an extensiesuPIV O good courage in prospect of a duel, and ehisnduel ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... dismay, eas the lend shower fall But soon ara the harvesters tossing the sheaves; The robin darts out from Its bower of leaves; The wren peoreth forth from the 2n1ees-eavred caves And the rain-spatiered rin now giadly perceives That the beautiful bowsodeth ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... %VsSTMIlN61BT 0- AGCa.-On the hustinga were posted a set of young uMen, neatly dressed in blue and buff for the occasion, blacelsgs from all the race-courses, and all the Pharo and B.O. tables in town. Their business weas to affront every gentleman who came on ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... unsoundable; known to God only. Thou shalt be a Great Man. Yee,. my World-Soldier, thou of the World Marine-service;- thou wilt have to be greater than this tumuiltuous un- measured World here rouund thee is: thou, in thy strong- soul, as with wrestler's ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... I T|M SCRAP-BOOK COLU N. IM3XSSIOnS OF THSE DAmAnAs.-Their name is in their own language Ovaherero, or the Merry People; but those wl1o are settled towards the interior are always called Ovampantieru, or the Deeeirers ; for what reason I am ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... smooth. During the annual feasts, the resident prophet occupied the summit of the prophets' matrimo. nial altar, from day-dawn to sun-rise, and from sun-set until the close of twilight. At these times, those wishipr to unite in matrimony might appear at the ...

TEL SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... here are from mutual ?? British Jews. INCO1;VENIENT SUPERsTIiox.L-The Damaras have numberless superstitions about meat, which are very troublesome. Each tribe, or family, is prehibited from eating cattle of certain colours: savages who come from the snn ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMAN

... some distance from the beach: one party striz ed in the Logan, to cut off his retreat by sea; another, which I joined, made for the sn ndit of the bank, which we hop he would endeavour to ascend, First blood was draw by our party: a hall from my fowling-piece ...