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DINING CAR ON THE UNION-PACIFIC RAILWAY

... inasmuch as she has no lines to speak, and her name does not even appear in the bill. Miss Howard's papa rejoins that his daughter has in the piece now performing at the Greenwich Theatre no less than fourteen lines to speak, besides a song to sing; and ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2346 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FANCY BALLS IN ENGLAND

... greater number of representatives than could have been hoped for; and there was really no want in the way of variety. We here speak of the men: ladies do not usually incline so much to individual impersonation, and no repetition on their part could possibly ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS

... Mendelssohn intended to depict. But, after all, the music needs no guide either to its purport or its beauty. The symphony speaks for itself in language in- telligible, even to the wayfaring man, though a fool. We can hardly conceive an imagination torpid ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1227 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

VIEW OF ST. PETER'S

... in Rome some weeks ago, to be present during the Queen's confinement. But it is of deaths more than births that I wish to speak in this letter, and especially of the recent deaths of two members of the Sacred College,-Cardinal De Reisach, Bishop of Sabina ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 17 | Tags: News 

LIFE OF JOHN GIBSON*

... and generous in giving him advice, and allowing him to copy his statues, attend his classes, and model from the life. He speaks in his notes gratefully of Canova, and praises his gentle manners, his deep sonorous voice, his soft Venetian dialect, and ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2326 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BY THE BYE

... Lady Byron's at Ham Common, speaks of the graceful attention shown to her guests by the noble lady of the house, who, although a chronic invalid, looked as though she was the del/ woman. In another passage Mrs. Stowe speaks of the occasion as being one ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2499 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE DUKE'S HONOUR*

... attractive public improvements which he projects. The Duke, who is of so quiet and decorous a character that he very seldom speaks, is indisposed to disturb the serenity of the place by making the concession. But Garvil has some very awkward letters in ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2302 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW MUSIC

... Bergson, is full of character, but how far its character warrants its name we are not in a position to say. We can, however, speak of the Danse as a pleasing and graceful composition, all the more acceptable because a little peculiar. The same composer's ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THAMES TUNNEL AND THE EAST LONDON RAILWAY

... As that scheme has not been carried into effect, and the Inner Circle has been partly completed, it is only necessary to speak of the conclusions of the Report affecting the proposed Outer Circle. The Joint Committee recommended that the por- tions of ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2167 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

CHARLES MATHEWS

... our page needs but little introduction to the reader. Nobody can mistake the portrait, and everybody knows the man. Do we speak too broadly? Well, we will be more precise, and say, everybody who frequents theatres or goes out into the world. And the number ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

JAPAN

... change, the incidents which had regulated the progress of foreign intercourse with the Japanese, up to the period of which we speak, were sufli- ciently irreconcilable to puzzle all but the most attentive observers. Now that the establishment of satisfactory ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

GUSTAVUS BERGENROTH*

... prominent member of the Socialist party, which was then forming there under the influence of the French Saint-Simonians,-speaking at their meetings, associating on the most intimate terms with their leaders, and contributing many powerful articles to ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1172 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture