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NEW BOOKS

... ?? So many readers are prepared to find pleasure in books like Captain J. T. Newall's Hog-hunting in the East, and other Sports (Tinsley Brothers), t that the author of that work can afford to be told o there are some others to whom the perusal of his 3 volume will afford none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to ...

GOOD-NATURED CRITICISM

... GOODI-NA TURED CRITICISM. NOT for the purpose of recurring to the particulars of the significant Circe business, but to show how the regular manufacture of such productions is fostered by good-natured critics, do we notice the matter now. The case itself is thoroughly and indisputably bad. The author of the im- posture was not indebted to a contemporary writer for an idea or a situation ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE

... YIRE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEA TRE. THE Prince of Wales's Theatre reopened on Saturday night with a per- formance of Mr. Robertson's comedy of Caste, the most successful production of last season. The run of this play has been suspended in London for sormie two months, but it must not be understood that the plaoers engaged in its representation have therefore been enjoying a holiday. and are ...

PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY

... PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY.` IT is significant that, while modern civilization in Europe has long been crying out against guerilla warfare, and against the kindred system of privateering, guerilla warfare was regularly and formally established in the late civil war in America. At a comparatively early stage of the conflict a law was passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the ...

THE WATERDALE NEIGHBOURS

... ON reaching the last page of the last volume of The Waterdale Neigh- bours we are still in the dark as to the sex of its author. It is something indeed to be able to say that one has really reached the last page of a three-volume novel, after a bond file reading of the whole, without any extraordinary self-sacrifice in the way of duty to the writer whose work one intends to criticise. ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... T--- l#>L: ?? - X l 'traomo OtnR b 8 cojO~ ?? !1 It'is undbniable that we'are not where'we'might,, f: could, and should have been in this Exhibition; -1 ' 'f took leavemontha sago to set forth the rbasons why fo we had failed, and- 'at the same time'to point' out' h the' importance of ',imurnediately 'disem iatinjg tho:; fi rough art an4.techsical education among our wage E classes. Thefault ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Letters of Distinguished Musicias: Gluck, Ha!,day, P. G. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Longmans. Lady Wallace here translates another of the collections made by Ludwig Nohl in illustration of the lives of the musicians. Of four or frve men of mark letters are drawn from books and journals in which they have been scattered, and so brought together, that ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1867
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 21423 | Page: Page 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE

... THE PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. MR. VIN'ING, advertising the revival of the popular Irish drama of Arral- na-Pogue, records with pardonable pride that it has been represented in Paris and throughout the French provinces, the United States, California, and Australia, carrying with it a measure of delight unequalled by any drama in modern times excepting its twin sister, the 'Colleen Bawn.' ...

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

... V1CTORIIA Tf{EAH11E. TLis houoe opened on Saturday night last uuder the mnavagelnout of Mr. T. A. Cave, who is well known 5a a ol..ver mnd polular theatrical manager. ''lie houne bss been newly decorated and painted in every parl-not before it was wanted, our readers will say. Oa the open- ilng night. a new drlama was produced entitled The Si. of a Life. ' Ic was very well performed, and ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... LITI3&RX' XXSCdELLANIMA. 'ATInMN Insipid ;blif aend play-clubs as seldom xi possible. In visits of ceremony be sparing. WOMEN are a great mysteryi' j.ccording to Hailer women bear hunger longer than men; according t Plutsroh, they can resist the effects of wine better; ac cording tto Unger, they grow/ oider anud never bald;* ao carding to Pliny, tbey are seldomr attacked by lions (ot the ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... -,PUBLICAMUStEMNS- Mr. D'ion'Bncicault's admrablaeIrishrmelodraama, Ar~rah.na.Pogue,wns reproduced at'this theatre on'! Mdonday evening, with scenery as splendid and deco- rations asbeautiful as when the play wask oiginally brdught ou~t here. in March, 1b. During the twe Cears hat' have' intervened, this drama has Deen played with marked.Iuceeessin AmErrca and AUstr- lia 'wbile its ...