PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... pUBLIC cAJUSEMENTS. ROYAL SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. UNDEIS THE MANAGEM3ENT OF MRL FiEletS. rlOMORROW (Mon1day). KING MENRY V. King Henry, Mr. j Phlps uke f Glo'ster', Miss Mandlebert; Duke of Meetr, M. MllonPisol, Mr. GI. Bennett; Boy, Miss Travers; IsaelMrs lirret;Quiekli, Ilrs., H. Marstois-To conchude wit 'BEMIISHROF FINANCE~-Onl Tuesday and Wed- neoay th t'egdyofHAMLET. Claudiuse, Mr. G. ...

HAPPY OLD AGE

... EOR1GINAL.I BY JOgs1 CnttTCelly JaRINCE. 0 I feel that age hasovertu'en g My steps on life's descending way, I But time has left no lingering pain, e No shadow of an evil day; o And you, my children, gather near, 'To smooth and solace my decldne, And ye are peaceful, dutoous, dear,- Oh! why should I repine? r. Not all exempt has been my siy a From fitful storm and lowering cloud, lA But eun ...

LITERARY NOTICE

... LiTrEPRAl'Y NOTICE. SELECT POEMS, FROM TlE GeRMee. By John Hunt.- Preston: H. C. Barton, Fishercale. The twenty-four selections comprised in this neat little volume have been culled from the works of about sixteen German poets, amongst whose names we find those of the ceicbrated Gtiethe and Schiller. The translator adduces as his aim and reason for publishing the work, a wish of to keep up and ...

A MERRY HEART

... BY CHARLES SWATH. 'Tis well to have a merry heart, However short we stay; There's wisdom in a merry heart, Wbate'er the world may say. Philosophy may lift its bead And find out many a flaw; But give me the philosophy That's happy with a straw! If life but brings us happiness- It brings us, we are told, What's bard to buy, though rich ones try With all their heaps of gold! Then laugh away-let ...

POETRY

... PP FT ,Y A VISION. ti Who draotli nealr wvitil such a piteous face ? I k nnow h Ilnow-s Whigi that lost his place. of A starinehl adtheret he, in every shape,Sit Of the granld mysteries of Wax and tape A firn lieliever in the jiggling plan ; A steadfast, torounglio-oing p1artizailn. fo Whiy prowlvs lie slow So iate through Scotlailnd-yard ? se Why to you AviliidOv turtls his foild regard ? TI ...

Literature

... The L(Sf anad Cor-reepconden~ce of John Foster. Edited by J. E. tb ItytanrI, AMX. ?? N~otices of hMr. Foster as a Preacher endl a Comnpanion. by Johol Sheppard. lol. I. (Bot7n's Slandard as Library.)-UEenry U. Bohn, York-st., Covent-garden, London. .~ This is a very irnterestiag addition to M~r. Bobn s well-known T series. From the mental 'rigour and originality which heT tvnlned In hia works, ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... II AR-ivAS rAT THE SHELBOURRn HOTEL.-Wm yitzgerald. Esq, DL, Adelpha; Mrs Wilson, family, and suite; Mr. Mrs, and Miss Higgins; Mr and htrs Persee, Mrs and Miss Stuart Trencb, hrs and Miss Fletcher, Mr and Mrs F 1 Foster, Mr and Mirs ewbury, hr and Mrs Bernie, Mr and gigss Byrne. Mr and Mrs Power, Mar and Mrs Faulkner, Mrs and aljes BrownS, Mrs and the Misses Moore, Mrs and Miss Butler, Iessrs ...

Poetry

... vactrm. THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL. No sounds of labour vexed the quiet air From morn till eve. The people all stood still, And earth won back a Sabbath. There were none Who cared to buy and sell, and make a gain, For one whole day. All felt as they had lost A father, and were fain to keep within, Silent, or speaking little. Such a day An old man sees but once in all his time. The simplest peasant ...

LITERATURE

... I LITERATV.RE. I ESSAYS, CHIEFLY TscOLOGIoAL. By the Rev. P. M-rsay, D.D., Pro/esor of Doguatic and Moral Theology, Moyrnooh. (Dublie: Gerald Bellew). Fourth Series. Although the ob- servations withfwhichl the last yearly volume of this series was introduced must have prepared the reader to find in the volume for 1853 the conclusion of the miscellany, his regret will hardly be the less on ...

THE EVE OF THE SABBATH

... At eve, ere 1da5sd the Sedhbath, o y waniderin,2 footsteps stray'd, co With one monst lo ?? and loving, WI Bar il a syivan. gadc. e No deer vere there reposing leneath the leaf'.O tee, But soft the wavec vere ffovwhg, And lightly stole tihe blreee. We traek'ld the Win.ding pathvasy, 'Beside a purling .crczm. The setting sw: o'.t 'dibng Toe greets tunf wbih his blantl. O)ld moss-growv. trmrlls, ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA AT Manchester

... 3ZUSIC AlND THES DRADMA A) m Mancheste. I T FETnROM OUR OWN CORRPSPONDENT.l Mne t on! Saturday' Octobhesr30th lyin T27he dWinrtere1 's Tga~le, ?? Helen ?? appesred on Monday in Joliet Miss ?? departed to a good house, and Miss Faucit commenced to as excellent one. On Tuesday Miss Fici Played 11anlthle, in the admired lyric drama or Kingr Rene's Daughter, to a fashionable and admirina audience, ...

Published: Sunday 07 November 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW MUSIC

... NEW DIUSIC. SoNG-MoURN FOR. THE MIGHTY DEAD. Written by CHARLES MACKAY, and composed by SIR HENRY R. BISHOP. Cocks and Co., Barlington-street.-Three verv impressive verses, on the death of the Duke of Wel- lington, aptly set. Both poetry and music are of such a quality as to ensure the song a popularity long outliving the occasion that brought it into existence. THE PEOPLE'S PALACE QUADRILLE. ...

Published: Sunday 21 November 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture