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NEW MAGAZINES

... NEW lA.GAZINES. The Train. No. I. Groombridge and Sons. The Idler. No. I. Robert Hardwiclhe. The Trait starts very full of pleasant talkers. It is a new shilling monthly, freely illnstraied with good woodcuts, and supported by the writing of sonme of the most successful young ?? of the day. It is light literature, but free from the extreme debility under which light literature usually suffers. ...

AMUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH

... I AXl~lUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH. I (FROMe OUR1 OWN COBB SrONDnENT.) T3rATP-9 ROYAL.-The success which continues to attend the produc- tion of the new Pantomime of Jack and the Bean Stalk, performed last night for the fifteenth time, is altogether unprecedented. Every evening the theatre is crowded in all parts, and on several occasions many hundreds have been turned from the doors, and this too ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRESs &ce ?? -~W lphl.-A new comic piece Dwas brought out at this theatre geridny last, entitled Urgent Private Affairs, from the pro- on Mood MrJ. Stirling Coyne. The author has succeeded in irfi Pe, out some very droll incidents upon very slight materials, wor thepiece is entitled to the claim of originality; it is not a aneltii from any of our Continental neighbours, and the an- ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MAGAZINES

... COLBURWS NEW --ON.fllA. The contentst of ihi6. poptular periodical more than usually varied and are1 the present month. It would serve n pose to give a dull catalogue pf the 0 efi' p~y 4wevecr, s ute for partipular arties . ?? on Samuel Butler and Gust -and ba iographical ?? of adll L Several of the lighter and more amnusin full of dashing inident and gay hu artic one of the-articles, we quote ...

LITERATURE

... di MEXICO D ITS RELIGION. ,t Jfeico axd its Religion; twithi lucidakfs of rrdeI8 in that Courstry during parts' of ilU yearr ai16 52-53-54, and Hisoricdl Notices of EMents Cn- n^esicted toitf plaes eisited. By ?? A. WLSON. ,X Loudon: Sampson Low, SOns and aO.- a- The writer of this interesting volume, imho is an ., A~merican, has eadopted- thie Sparkish~ oustom,,of l mingling historical ...

DRAMATIC and MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE from Australia

... WltAAEATIC and lUSICAL INTELLIGINCE | from Australia. I (FRODE A PRIVATE CONTRIBUTOR.) MELBOURNE, SEPTEMnER 29.-Theatrical amusements in this city of the golden regions are now warmly countenanced by all parties, but more particularly so, as may be imagined, by the bachelorhood, who form the chief nucleus of the community here, and thus wise seek a passing indemnity for the toils of a colonial ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMA

... DRAMAI. A YMAgtKET. We are glad wvhen a manager bethinke himself now * nd then of reliving one ot our old comedies. Surfeited Se wre are with French fricandeasul sad regouts, it iz pleasanot to sit dowrn occasionally to a itxtle of the English fare which our forefathers loved. We went therefore to the Hay- . market On 6aturday evening with sn expectation of enjoy. meut w7hich, if not entirely ...

JENNY LIND'S CONCERTS AT EXETER Hall

... | JENNY HLIND'S CONCERTS AT EXETER I ?? _ Vie ffessiah was performed at Exeter Hall on Monday evening, being the fourth of the sacred concerts undertaken by 31adanle Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. Although the Swedish vocalist saun the soprano part of this oratorio upon a former occasion at Liverpool, the great metropolis had not been favoured with a hearing, and the interest that the announcement ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ARTS

... COLOSSAL BRONZE EQUESTRTAN STATUE OF LORD HARDlNGE. . We shall not readily lorget a saying of Mr. Gibson's, the sculpwor. tothe effect that be was t.e roere ph s ed with St- , George's Hsll, Liverpool, fr nm the fact of the design having It been chosen lby a committee. Too well do the public, or f rather that very small section of the pubiic which takes an f | interest in such matters, know ...

MUSICAL NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES

... CrEsSTR.-Musical science in this ancient city seems of late to have become additionally encouraged. On Wednesday evening last we bad a festival at the New Music Hall, in aid of the Mecha- lics' Institution. It was under very distinguished patronage, and Earl Grosvenor occupied the chair. Mr. Owen presided at the organ, and Mrs. M. L. David at the pianoforte. There was a fair company of ...

Published: Sunday 20 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CITY STEREOSCOPIC GALLERY

... THIB 011Y STEREOSCOPIC GALLERY. We had an opportunity yesterday, at a private view, of inspecting a new gallery which has been opened by the Ste. reoscopic company at 64, Cheapside. Their object, as we mentioned when we noticed their gallery in Oxford-street, is. to cultivate a higher style of art in these novel and most interesting productions; to extend a knowledge of them amongst the public ...

LITERATURE

... T'TEf LADY OF FASHION.1 ady of Fashion. By the Author of The' ;story of a Flirt, &oe. London: Hurst and 9 Cove), ?? by the authoress of The hich exhibits in a still more eminent bese taleut whicht marked the earlier greet uof the writer. It is characterized by ?? of tone, the same delicate 1sme6 ~ r the same nice discrimination of f~ooerp na Sae Inme skilfulness in the treat- Cbao ote ...