PROVINCIAL THEARICALS

... severely tated by previous bad business. CORKY. THEATER RoYAL, GEOEa'e-xSTRExT.-The Anglo-Italian Opera Company opened for a short season on Boxing-night, and were received with enthu. siasm by an audience that filled the theatre in every part, hundreds ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 12559 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... proaching for hours before it reached us, since it roses in pioepr- tions as tics ice was broken up into smaller pieces. In a short tin but few of them were equal in size to tise ship's deck; inost of them icot half so large. I knew tist ituear tics pack-edge ...

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

... anade cosntaits some telling hits at passing events PRIll CESS'S..-In the present instance, the author has chosen the familiar story of Jeck the Giant Killer, and introduced a full allowance of terrible giants, and also King Arthur with his celebrated Knights ...

LITERATURE

... most complete w story that has proceeded from Mr. Dickens's pen. c It is short, concise, and displays plain purpose throughout. Not a moment seems to be lost or a page wasted its therecital. Its essential feature is, that it is a story well told ; and ...

LITERATURE

... mostly of an erudite and unfa- miliar class, are duly cited at the foot of each page. , We have no room here to follow the story, in- teresting and characteristic of the age as it all is. It is cuiesly comprised in the nine years beginning with 1161, when ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... M Smost ingenious pieces of mechianism ever seen. It ntol ret a plucks the feathers, but separates the long ones from the short a ones while passing through the machine. It will pick forty. I five geese per hourr. in I WOaCESTER MUSICAL FETs'ivAa., 1860 ...

LITERATURE

... thought him- 8iO01 ~~if its ~ ~ ~ to e* than , ftbls ohs~'~ partie~ tu aprmeiti and yet, probably, there never school' ~re stories evidencingin themselves so little in- it is .~ merit, as works of art, as those under dis- of se ?? Pathetic and beautiful ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... writer also of this season's burlesque at the Strand. Mr Talfourd is the best of the stage punsters, and he has p~t into the story of King Thrush- beard much pleasant jesting, with a little-perhaps too much-of the moralising vein. The acting of the intro ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... others. At the age of thirty- three he occupied the additional post of Secretary of the Tax Office. During Lord Rockingham's short adminis- tration, Mr George Rose was a man constantly consulted. Lord Shelburne formally secured his services as Secretary ...

ART, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE

... she appears abroad; and wvhat is 110ore remarkihibe, is the utter indifl'rence maniatsted towards her companion. The lady is short, and rather stout, with an extreniely juvenile gait and manner. The partner of her flight is of middle height, with sandy hair ...

LITERATURE

... WELCOM 9 G URST. New Series. Part IIl. Iloulston and Wright, Paternoster-row. There are several very tolerable tales and short stories in the present monthly part of this once very superior serial, and one iu vers by Mr. Brough, the editor, which for nerve ...

Published: Sunday 08 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3332 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... first-mentioned paper, on ' Disappointment and Success, we select the following extracts - DISAPPOINTMENT. Disappointmant,.in short, may come and must coma wherever; man can set his wishes and his hopes. The only way not to. be, disappointed when a thing ...