Literary Extracts

... I Aturarp Extra ?? BnAsTIsi MARFnLAG E CaeU.NIONY.-T'lt mal and woman go into the water with a cow alid calf and au old ngpriest. The man doth hold his hand by the old man',; hand, I a and the wife's band by the husband's, and ill have the ow; re- bythe teil, and they pour water out of a brass pot on the .ed cov's tail, and then the old man ties hinm and her together by their clothes; then ...

LITERATURE

... 17Je Wor)ks of SAnsUEL WARREN, D.C.L., F.P.S, Part I. Dtoarp of a labc Pfjo/ieiona. Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons. Pow.^ of our readers wwho are in the babit of dovoting any por- tion of their attention to the literature of the day have not spent on ecessiosal couplo of htours over the pleasant pages of Rrtc1 ~d; while fewver or those to wvhom old E1bony has afforded pleasitre have failed to ...

ART

... “A Gusese or ax Homesteap.”—* His Grace | Tae Deke or Avpxessinc tur House or Peers.” Tus is a very interesting clever painting, by Mr J. F. Her- ring. an animal painter of very considerable merit. It con- sists mainly of a group of those animals usually accumulated about a farm. At all events the rest of the composition is of inferior value, and does not seem to have received the same amount ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I The number of persons who visited the Exhibition on yes- terday was 11,714. The attendance on yesterday was both fashionable and numerous, and the receipts at the doors much above the late average. We never before perceived so many children in the building, and if parents only knew the real benefit which their children would derive from a visit to this true school of improvement, they would ...

AMUSEMENTS IN SHEFFIELD

... AMEUSEMENTS :N SIFFI. T D. (FRooM onR OwX coiarsposrostesT.) THEATER RoYiA.-Meosrs. Coleman and Johnson, the future lessees of this establishment, are making active preparations for its opening for the ovinter season, wisiets announced to tale place on 3lolulay, the 31st inst. aneorosI THEATOE, CATrmL-sIAnExr.-On Monday last the cele- brated actor, Mr. E. L. Davenport, mpade his first ...

Published: Sunday 09 October 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... I THE OLYMPIC. Mr Alfred Wigan, in assuming the management of this theatre, has the good wishes of all who still care for the better and more agreeable entertainments of the stage, and who do not think that vulgarity and bad taste have reached their millennium because they happen to attract temporary crowds of barren spectators and noisy applauders. Mr Wigan has been for many years quietly ...

POETRY

... POETRY, THE: MOTHER'S GRAVE. I knew a little maiden, Than falling snows more fair, Her laughing eye was azure, And golden was her hair. Ier voice was sweetest music, For all she said was kind. I met her In the meadows, Where flowers she went to find. I asked her why she pulled them- She bade me come and see; She led me to the graveyard, And showed a grave to me. J My mother's borne is here, ...

POETRY

... - OCTOBER orgeo us are thy woods, October, Clad in glowing mantles sere- Brightest tints of beauty blending Like the wat, when day's descending- Ttou'rt the sunset of the year. Fading flowers are thine, October! Droopeth sad the sweet bluebell, Gone the blossoms April cherish'd- Violet, Wly, rose-all pearifhd, Fragrance fled from field and dell, Songless are thy woods, October, Save when red ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS THE XIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DUIAM. Ithalongbeenafavoritedogma3,whieh commentators have thumped down upon the ShaksPerian page with the might of a paviour's hammer, that the Midsummer Nighp's Dream was especially unactable. To listen to these worthies, if you attempted to infase the spirit of the play into any forms bearing the shape of human bodied, the ethereal essence of it ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... THEs± SCZAP-ROOK COLUBUT. W1ooING IN THiE PrcrH ?? once a olt- mln i ae informed his ta1t-s:t and mother thath has a vrediloclioti for a oung Indian girl, his parents pay a visit to she ?? sirl's parents tapon some fone eveni.qg; and after qone very oratrnary c- at, the mamma of the ?? Im'an ots apii'tr o to the maunna oit h&e Y -!g la`y. SiouT1 II h UTure mnotenar tr-i-haw accept, tC' lover ...

FAIRS

... I - I AIRS. I ; - . i - .I At the October fair of Venagn,;on Mendayr large supply of stock, but prices were lower t1eres whichhave of late been obtained. Owing to t4 &4$ the fairs of Roscrea and Tipperary were heed ont b day, theta were not so many purchasers as weze Milch cows sold at from 8 to 212; fat cow, flro two year old heifers, 41 to 71; yearling II 71tOl1 1,; sheep, of which there was ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... The Journals and Correspondence of General Sir Harry Calvert, Bart., G.C.B.,ac, conlzprising the Campaigns in Flanders and Holland in 1793-4. Edited by his Son, Sir Harry Verney, Bart. Hurst and Blackett. This is an interesting as well as timely publication. During the first campaigns of the allies against France at the close of the last century, Sir Harry Calvert, there a captain in the ...