LITERATURE

... ?? A LADY'S VISIT TO THEi GOLD DIGGINGS. The lady (then a spinster) accompanied her brother m April, 1852-53. She shared with her brother all the vicissitudes of a digger's life ; and narrates them in a free, fresh spirit: there is nothing artificial-nothing. hackneyed in her Paces- She begins by avouching their accuracy of detail. In a lack of the marvellous will consist their principal ...

THEATRICALS IN AMERICA

... . | (FsOM OVER Owiv COUESPONMDENT.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 12.-On Monday last Jullien prodaced hie American Quadrille, and great as have been the plaudits: with which the prodactions of Jullien have been greeted in the old vorld, vething more hearty or more heartfelt ever greeted him than-it did ?? this occasion. The production islike all that Jullien doesi it.is a composite affair-a variety of ...

Published: Sunday 02 October 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART

... I E - D(~T ASAA\ToWVQT.'R TPqTTTUJT1ON. C AJ~j.LN 'JJco] ROYAL MANCHESTER INSTITUTION. b [CONTIUED.]thi 804. The Forsaken One. Henry Johnstone.-How often de a fine artistic thoughat-caleulated, fin right hands, to develop ad. itself into a sublimity, is frittered away becomilaii impotent hc and miserable. The work under notice, good ini Concepti on, of fair in composition, and in other ...

Literary Extracts

... 1: , I '41 itcrar ? Extra 'to. -,I- H~oive-Hope is ita slenlerre-e~d f~o~r aLs'to-ut' man to l ea n on, ly bat i's strong enough, I do suppose, for them that's infirm USI * f mnind and purpose. The houses Hope builds are castles t~ ~nthe air. The houses of the wretched'who are altogether without hope, are too dismal to live in. A slight infusion of IId hope may be prescribed in bad cases; ...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDGAR POE.*

... TIE POETWCAL WOR6S OFE POI.E . Mr. James Hannay is a great admirer of works of Edgar Poe; and so, although perhaps ijen more modified way, are we. Mr. Hannay, h,, ever, has given a practical proof of his admirationl and of hie. interest in the poet, by bringing cut a neatly got up edition of his poems, prefac: with a biographical sketch containing, as We be lieve, nearly all, that is known of ...

Poetry

... vuttrj. MI 0 NO N. TRANSLATBDD rROX GOQDT1B L VODMS, BY M. A. Purr. VthnQeewsre gat ta 'rooittlr of Italy, he asforibl atraced y a ai, angtileh music of a OP MIrn which lie heard In the street. The senestress was an IntereItln ItalIan child: her lay depleted in vivid edloues the beauties of Italy, and her ardent desire to return thither. Goethq entered Into cn-l vereetien with tire young ...

GREAT EXHIBITION

... The number of persons who visited the ExhibitioO Yde- day lwas 16,117. The following circular has been issued by Mr. Jo. Robineon to the members of the several musical 50c' Dablin, and we have no doubt but it will be OpIW to cheerfully;-, DDE=R Sta-The Committee of the Dublin Exhibibia being desirous of giving as much .das to its dosiag diy is possible, have requested me, in connection with ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... |If ?? THE GREAT EXHIBITIOQ.1 Tmbaer of persons who visited the Exhibition yesterday, 99,719. ?? : The attendance yesterday was numerous, and the receipts st jhe door a fair average. We noticed in the building the lalbourer and teautry. of J. Wilson, Esq., Daramnoa, counaty M atb; also all the men employed on the Dundaik and Enni=2iion Railway, besides sixty o the labourere Srom the Dundalk ...

POETRY

... ' OCTOBER. Gorgeolls are thy woods, October, Clad in glowing mantles se'ore- Brightest tints of beauty blending Iike the west, when day s descendjing Thou'rt the sunset of the year. Fading flowers are thine, October I Droopeth sad the sweet bluebell, Cone the blossoms April cherish'd. Violet, lily, rose-all ?? Fragrance fled from field and dell. Songless are thy woods, October Save when red ...

THE DRAMA, MUSIC, &c

... TEE DRAMEA. NUSIC, &a. DaUaY L&N1E.-On Wednesday night Mr. Brooke terral- natcd a suceasful.l and brilliant eegagemrent at th,. house, which his talent has filled for more than tb.hryasix perform- ances. The entertainments were for the benefit of tbe worthy and enterprising lessee, M ir. Smith, whose liberality and I oacurable fulfiment of every engagement has acquired for him the esteem and ...

Litarary Varieties

... 'iterhary Miet es. oN THE DEATH OF GENERAL SIR C. NAPIER. (ri om the Dablin 7Unive7,sity Mfagazine. '1ould War were dead! . . Yet when a Warrior dies Likc this one, to his knell a pulse rebounds _ Our world is poorer by a noble man. Ss-'ERt is ?? conqueror of Scinme And righteouS ruler. Through a sickly frame, ?? with war, thle spiritual fire Biaeed tcrblike on the battle's vanward surge; And ...

Original Poetry

... orighlat loortru. ?? ? THE SONG OF THE BLACKSTAFF. I CANIE from the mountains, pure and bright, Through flowery fields I strayed; Gladly I danced in the sun's clear light, And with the sunbeams played. In music and mirth the happy hours Of the Summer dlays wvere passed; Oh! green were the fields, and bright the flowers, In the place where my lot was cast. One day the wind came wanderin.g by, ...