LITERATURE

... brought out ark original concep- tio~n of Clytemnestra's character he bad the ad- vantage of a familiar name and a favourite story. In like manner when we read 'Chastelard we are able to give full attention to the action of the play becuse we are at home ...

HEREWARD.*

... or other peaceful and serious homes, into which Good WVor;ds finds its way, as month after month through the past year this story has come tearing and thundering along. Many gentle eyes, we should think, must have turned away, after a few glances, from ...

LITERATURE

... which called forth this volume: but before noticing this division of his work we may state on Dr. Russell's authority, that short-lived as was the old cable it was the means of effecting for this country a saving of 50.0001. in the transmission of a single ...

ECCLESIASTICAL ART—HOME MANUFACTURE

... infirmity, which totally preoludes the fur- 'theef exercise of lis literay powers. In his 71st year the authorof the 14aits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, his faculties obscnred and his eight all'hut lost, is struorgling to maintain himself alid a largo ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... And yn- ad ?? . . . . .. the fine climate would probably save me from these bronchitic attacks I suffer from here. The story of Sir Brook Fossbrooke, a tourist's sketches of Switzerland in Summer and Autumn, and the N Memoirs of the Confederate ...

LITERATURE

... art, were often guided by its purest and most untrammelled spirit, What, for instance, could be more tragic in idea than the story of An Unrecorded Chronicle 1 A childless couple, fearing that their titles and eztates would, on their death, fall to a ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... title of a short paper 1 by Mr. Thomas Hughes, H.p., the object of which is to 2 show the strain on the resources of the Northern St ates of America while the war lasted, and the heroism of men of gentle birth and nurture. Then follow a short essay on Recent ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 206.) Pitman. FIcTIoN.-' Crimson Pages.' A Story of the Sixteenth Century. By John Tillotson, Author of ' Stories of the Wars,' etc. (Feap. svo, pp. viii, 248.) Beeton.-' The Prince and the Page.' A Story of the Last Crusade. By the Author of ' The EHeir ...

THE MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH

... deterinied to continue 5 to do so,- the present part giving the first instal- a:mert 'of a new story by the popular Mrs Oliphant, entitled Madonna Mary; The Story of John Hluse, by Henry Rogers, author of The Eclipse e of Faith ; The Dreadful Four ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... productions at the Lyceum were betterseleoted, and consequently more successifl, than the pieces lately presented at that house. A short ?? of comparative failures.is, however, now followed by a great triumph, for, in all likelihood, Mr. Palgrave Simp- son's dramatic ...

LITERATURE

... is amply atoned for by Swoitzerland in Sonzer and Austuon, a charming article; while the twentieth part of that admirable story of modern life and manners, Cornelius O'Dored, and a fifth portion of that. graphic and life-like picture of the Anerican war ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1658 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... faitisfal renderaing assi adaptation of tbis the second aaa& most deservedly hsorilshed of alt those eveastful voyages. 'T'ls story of tosuise is knsown to every child, so wa fly with ass Aricl quicicuess to tisc Leafy Groves amid the Murnurling Watters of ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 25460 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture