The Christy Minstrels at St. James's Hall

... The Christy Xinstrels at St. James's HAiL These charming vocalists and clever entertainers continue to attract and delight audiences as large as ever by their sweet warb- ling and amusing performances. Great as has been their success, it is no more than should have been the result of the exercise of the very superior talents of the members of the company. To our thinking, theirs is one of the ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROSE SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... I OSESHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The collectiola of roses exhibited at the Crystal Palace on Saturday last, although of surpassing beauty, variety, and fragrance, was not quite so large as usual, the high winds of the early part of the week having car- r ried destruction into many a smiling garden and scattered r in the air thousands of magnificent flowers. But whatever 1: was deficient in ...

CONCERTS AND MUSIC

... | omac eot ofeea itrs, nW reviously Aldver- posed, byca;ibel and VirginTiaE ERAl. Ntihtnigti Tomissona ith rGrmms..j, ?? voaist was unsally e rt giav 's Xorning Concert. Herr Wilhelm or Mr.Ganz Gne conducts at half the morning concerts dtoing our London season, and is able to rely upon the assistance of iianfy popular artistes at his aunusl festival. On, Monday hepresented his friends with ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4310 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK

... | PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. e The presentation of Mr. Tom Taylor's comedy t called The Overland Route has resulted in iy unqualified success, a crowded audience having in attended the theatre every evening of the past to week. The style in which the pieceisputupon In- the stage is unexceptionable, both as regards the es beauty and completeness of the scenery and the e marked attention which ...

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... AXERICAN THEATRICALS. NEW YORK, JuNE 4. TnhnLu will be several changes at the Theatres this week. Mr. John Brougham inaugurates the summer season at the WINTER GARDEN to-night, opening in Lie own comedy of Playing with Fire. Mr. Brougham is deservedly a favourite in New York, and no doubt his engagement will prove remunerative to the Management. There is a deal of talk about Oer Mutual Friend, ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1153 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GENERAL NEWS

... LITERATURE, A ]IT, &c. [FrNco TIIE ATLEX OnE'.] he 'IMr. Proctor's Mlemoir of Charles Lamb is very sst j nearly ready for issue. .e, Mr. F. T. Palgrave is engaged in preparing for of I publication, at the end of Sumnmer, a new life of i h- fSir \altcr Scott. he Under the name of Dufferiah, Incnmbent of 'as Horse-hair-cum-Chintz, an experienced writer is yn- about to produce 'A Bundle of ...

POETRY

... THE WIVES OF BRIXHAM. You see the gentle water, How silently it floats. Howv cautiously, how steadily It moves the sleepy boats; And all the little loops of pearl It strews along the sand, Steal out as leisurely as leaves When sunimer is at hand. e But you know it can be angry, And thunder from its rest. When the stormy taunts of winter Are flying at its hreast And if you like to listen, And ...

LITERATURE

... ~LITERATUREK ABbUT SPAfI.. DG ?? ewo volusises beene einprese bya l ug-. dew hznd into one, -Mm Byrne would. have been greatly the gainer. It is possible, however, that ra judieiousditoi would:have suppressed' the rwork altogethe, sic M Byrne adds very little indeed to the common stock of knowledge of Spain and the Spniard& She :Is'as diffuse as a younghdywho has too much time on her hands ...

THEATRICALS IN AUSTRALIA

... THEATRICALS IN AUSTMALIA. (FROES OUR OWN COOiRESPONDENI.) MELBOURNE, ARitn 26. DuaRNG the last eight years I have endeavored faithfully to re p resent the state of the Drama and its professors in these colonies. when an opportunity offered, or a good opening appeared with a reasonable prospect of success, I have not hesitated to recommend a visit to our shores from the members of the ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Literary Notices

... Tint CRI'rcla. ES(5L1S1 TE9;TASISNT. Editid Sby tl ' the I'ec. W&L.L BL'AcKaizr,'M.Al, and'tb~eiev. ' JAMEd1AWESJ MIA. VOl. I., The Go~pjelg. 'b London: Aiexan'der.trahao. . ID Tent. cou1ferudhebsive and valuable work . of :wbioh a this is tihe tirat'instalsmentmnstbs regarded a6' an 0 eesetttia~idcselc'atftu at ' a' 'tt likW'&th'e'present,, whenl thtt Ne~w as well as the 'Old Tes~tamtent, ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... imvmwo OF - OO Vsmmnr lIa. By f. D. HowSL Trsner, ?? author of this lively and enter- tainiug sketch of Venetian life was Amnerioan consul for soma years at Venice. He was charmed by the natural beauties of the place, delighted by the bright and pieturesque character of its buildings, but dis- i trsesed at the pall-like darkness that spread itself over I social life in the once gay and ...

LITERATURE

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