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SPORTING LITERATURE

... gPORTZNG ITERA~tU . I nt g5 W vol Fee RumtY.-This agreeable periodleal, ce ti n of the article by Craven. entitled The P4,hio. e~e jhi ?? less than a farrago of affected ,o t, wbich' is 0tii ,rdlY ?? the printer's Ink or compositor's time, a fair quantity of entertaining matter. The New yrox is pleasingly narrated by Colonel Napier, and ay ' ip end Areesureas will be read with interest. in his ...

Published: Sunday 06 February 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LUMLEY V. GYE

... LUMIEBY V. GYE. QUEEN'S BENCH-JuexE 3. This was an action brought by the former lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, agaiust the proprietor of the Covent-garden Opera, to recover damages for having caused Mademoiselle Wagner to break an agreement which she had entered into with the plaintiff to sing at his theatre. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff's declaration, on the ground that aol ...

Published: Sunday 05 June 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1306 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GENUINE GOSSIP

... CE N IN E CO S SIP. -BY AN OLD ACTRESS. CHAPTER XXIIL-DISCURSIvE 3My connexion with Stanton's company led to my introduc- tion to poor Charles Baker. He was then a young, fresh-coloured, curly-headed fellow, and greatly admired by the ladies. He was an effective elocutionist, and, indeed, in later years, the cor- rectness of his speaking was the distinguishing characteristic of his ...

Published: Sunday 04 December 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2292 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRES, Ace DrurY-lane.--Novelty is the order, of the day with r. R. T. Smith, the lessee The latestandmostinterestig leertis else enoagelnent of Herr Heogler, the renowned rop-e lancer, whose inmimitable and most artistic evolutions on the e-ds! de tension nightly excite the admiration and delight of ioowded audiences. At the morning performance on Wednes- lay, the juvenile audience who ...

Published: Sunday 04 December 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LIT)ERA TUBE. Civil Wiars and Mfonarchs, in Francee irs *iho Sizteeatl and atventeentbsh ACenturiecs. By LEDOPOLD B~E; XI.Z A current liter 'mithorir lis i~ef rkte~dthat the perfecat hi stori an would rtu lt from a 9oembjnatio~ a f Germnan and of Fr'ench genius; the''Geriinar' to' el-. leet the mnaterials, and to suggrest.'to~ theories, and the Frenchman to describ, to systematise, and to ...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS

... ; ! 8,OI OF; BRrI ARTIST& qcity ohi''of Artistp lrtivo o peil t}tjr *6;bitioR in good time this season, and have got, on shale, every good set of pictur8es ;egter. ,Ter er 4.ro abs ,sntess-such as Mr. Anthony, who has eased to be:4q414, o of the society-wheee 1o0s is Roticeablo; . b utt the wls Sr.f1s44,4 and the t result is the iaveiag attractivesersi. TTI gsj4.0 of corporate purpose-of ...

MUSIC

... - - I C. ? ?? ?? THE.IARNONIC.YUNION. TJperformarce. at Teter HaJ.1 yesterday eviu- ing consisted of Mr. Pierson's oratorio Jernsalem,w which was produced at the Norwich. Fest4al last autui n. is thea performed, and also as a published -work, it was folly criticised, and the alroast uninismoius 3dgment,prondounce upon it was decidedly unfavourable. Last evening the work had the advantage of ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBE. Sam Slicik's Jise Saws a'rd Modewn Instances. Hurst and Blackett. The author of 4Sam Slick isa writer who has kept up his popularity as well as any of his contem- poraries. We are used now-a-days to the exhaustion of good notions; so many men first give genuinely the very best of their creative and inventive abun- dance, and then, finding that attractive, dilute it, and give ...

MAN AND HIS BROTHER

... -MAN -AND HIS BROTHE:R. *I ,; , - -, BREAD POr THE TIMES. *Man's inhmauity to Man! -; , - ?? A_ Oideoutle to tell,-. e --What chbek- uablancli'd can calmllsn fo .Thosecharacters of bell? ' ' te What pen, what poet, dares to paint tl The terrors of that strife, nl Wherein so many a martyr'd saint Has moan'd away his life I-- 0 Roman ?? priests, - (t Ye wretched cruel men, More bloody than ...

FINE ARTS

... ~FINART8 I' r~ d ' TkE- -iW SELl' COLL:BCTION ?? : Thi. iswidg ?? w'eek some2.noficeablaitcolle iod 1g, of pict.tZ Ahtve'.been put iup to the hammer. re collaetidtr -pidtuies, carvings, autographbi. ai A objects oi-viAti`; deseribed as othe Fuseli collection, re has nothetigto d`o withithe painter roach butis rII 'describe~part of-tbecoletitn-tirtthOPro' r, perty of the Counts , P - of Fuseli ...

DRAMA

... 2. ADELPEI. E The legitimate drama, transplanted here from the y Haymarket by Mr. Webster, has of late almost superseded s- that class of piec s for which the Adelphi has so long been x- specially renowned. That the old spitit of the place, how- !, ever, is not quite extinct, was proved last night by the pro- Y duction of a new melodrama, ?? with real Adelphi effects a (to quote the play ...

LITERATURE

... LIT.ERA TUBE. 2we Last Ftruit off r. ?? Tree. By WALTER SAVAGE LANnon. Moxoa. i18I. ave. 'Under this somewhat pathetic title, Mr. Landor puts forth a very miscellaneous collection of poetry and prose, in which his usual characteristics of a most noble style, conscientious finish, and fine ima- gination, in combination with a judgment proud, and at times hasty in its praise and blame, are mani- ...