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THEATRES, &c

... THEATRES, &&- -r- drama, in three acts, called Vie Casket of Jewels, and announced in the bills as Slew, was produced here on Monday eveniong with equivocal success. The recom- mendations of the piece were indeed so slight that it was inm- possible to imagine why it should have beep drawn forth from the obscurity in which it has long been buried. The drama, it seems, is the production of ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1926 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...

ATHENÆUM INSTITUTE

... A THEN3-UM INSTITUTJ. A meeting of gentlemen connected with literature and journalism was held on Saturday afternoon, in the rooms of the Athenoaum Insurance Company, in Sackville-street, for the purpose of a eoniersational discussion on the features and the merits of the newly-started Athenanum Institute. From what fell from Mr.' Richmond, of the Athenaeum Insurance Com- pany, who took the ...

EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION OF FINE ARTS

... EXHiBBINION OF THE NA 7IONAL IN STITUTION OF FIRE ARTS. The sixth season of this society of painters wras inaugurated upon Saturday by the usual private view at the Portland-rooms. There are as many as 337 works in oil suspended on the walls, with 63 water-colour drawings in the room appropriated to that department. As a whole, the collection can hardly be. deemed satisfactory. Like the ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... REVIEWI OF ?? soolks. My Nov-a. By SIR E. BULWEI LYTTON. Black- wood, Edinburysg. This, the last and certainly not the best of Sir Lytton Bulwer'o productions, has already appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. It is Low issued to the public in the more orthodox style of a four-volume novel. Tile tale is so disjointed that it fails to rivet our attention, and the persons introduced ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... TAdm SCRAPBOOK COLUMN. Tim Lasxs o0 MiscEscans.-The toilettes of most of the great provincial towns of France are fir from being Parisian-they are generally too gaudy anid irap. panttheywanthai'monyandrepose. Thefinerylsoften worn with great grace and piquancy, but the very notion that it is finery spoils all. if a -woman's dress strikes before the woman, she is overdresed. If the eye in. ...

AN OXFORD INSTALLATION POEM

... The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford having advertised for verses to be recited at the installation of the Earl of Derby, the following have been sent in. Onnia vel medium flant mare. A statesman quitted his official house, Though he had never thought to quit it more, And stamped upon the lowest step, and said- Let all things be a deluge after ma- We all took office, Pakingtora, ...

STATE AND CHURCH

... THa CoURT.-The sojourn of the Court atvWndsor. is expected to extend to Thursday next. The investiture of the Earl of Eglinton as ?? of the Order of St Andrew's of 'the Thistle, which was to hare taken place before the departure of her Majesty from town, has been' postponed until after the recess, owingto the absence of several of the kpights in Scetland. I I : OFFICIAL APPOINTMnNis.-The Hon. ...

FASHIONS FOR MARCH

... The Spanish style is the order of the day; and this is no evil, for it has a grace peculiar to itself, and is an agreeable inmovation. It is affirmed that much taste is being displayed in the manufacture of passementeries to ornament our Spring costumes. Chantilly and Cambray laces will be in great demand for trimming mantelets. We have already seen at the Opera some mantelets Aragonaises and ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 974 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE AMERICAN DRAMA

... TE: AME RIPAN DRAXTA I (From Peahedy's jA er a Chronceq of February 19.) WALLACS's THEATRE.-With the exception of a single performance of Old Heads and Young Hearts, the bill has remained the same at this house as it was in our last issue. On Tuesday evening The .La% of , ors was represented for the thhteenth time. The caste w sas, of course, the same as before. Wilst we admit that pr r. ...

Published: Sunday 13 March 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 934 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMA

... - I I' it' 'A mr$%ji ,i 5J llbiliku~i4:D *I3 ?? J dhTi£ *rg P414 tuF if a ?? the p Mloi gav pqc-o ?? ?? .pilOy.yAise, n4, w p 1Jy. cc in ?? r authr1kap RaUioqektt0 ehti Sfid*.hers! -e#met~atL prpolr migo j4 q d~ihI> cfotie ahir srs bi waembchl an *ilv~ith the refnementof the hi emy. de ftbh1rie was an exceleit bi the old ha. iba~ek uncle, worrid- vvo~ o)e~o Ft atro, underthe title Cif we ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBR. Ride through the Argyenine Provi c a. By WIIAM M,'CANx. Smith, Elder, and Co. . The title of this work has a fault very popular with authors of the present day. It promises more thban the book itself fulfils. . M IE 'lCan 'snrdes were ?? l~were not oft t eei- ?? : hlsui surely, -I O'u bg 1nvestgigtti character which gtveinfsrllationa worthv of digestion and 'nblica- tion ; but ...