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ENGLISH WAR LITERATURE, PAST AND PRESENT

... Napoleon brought forth some of our best war literature, the Lec- turer especially noticing Byron and Campbell's poems. After speaking of the aspirations of the poets for the time when universal peace would prevail, antd the pro- gress in this feeling which ...

THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL OF SCIENCE AND ART

... nearly 8,000 persona. At the experimental workmen's conceit, the other day, no less tltan i0,000 persons were present ,and it speaks well for the internal arrangements of the building and its facilities of egress, that the whole of this vast audience was ...

FESTIVAL CONCERT.— ST. PETER

... to repent, and in the tender air, *-The Lord is very pitiful. Mr. Thomas sang the parts in which St. Peter' is supposed to speak, some or which, a the denial, are vigorous and dramatic. The choruses which were most admired were The dee? uttereth his voice ...

ITALIAN OPERA IN BIRMINGHAM

... much a composition as an inspiration; but- it obeys a code and fulfils an art of its own, and no unpre- judiced musician can speak of it otherwise than with respect. Its performance last night was an unequal one in respect. to the principal characters, but ...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, BIRMINGHAM

... the nervous system can produce. He also gave a brief description of thebrain, spinal cord and nerves, and of the bones. In speak- ing of the attachments of muscles to bones, lie said these were so definite that an anatomist would have no diffi- culty in ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... under any aspect. Of the workx i iteef, which belengs to the last and most prolific year of Mozart's life (1791) it' must speak very brieer. The stor y of its oigin, to asisi t Mozart's needy friier, Shiclkaneder, who was in urgent want of a popular operatic ...

MAGAZINES FOR APRIL

... special, we should not have supposed he was the glorious creature he ap- lears to be. It seems, it will be better for him to speak half-a-dozen languages with considerable fluency; to have visited or resided in most parts of the habitable globe; to be a ...

EASTER AMUSEMENTS

... to credit her infidelity. Of the characters, which are in a grat measure those of Sir Walter Scott, it would be noeless to speak. Chief among them, of course, is the titel rolls, Amy Robsart, played by Mliss Neilson, its original exlonenc, with wonderful ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... as it were, native, and to the manner born, and acts, as Molidre's fourpeois spoke prose -without knowing it, We are speaking of the cha- racter, of course, in its general acceptation, and not that particular development of it which Mr. H. T. Byron ...

LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... the new Royal Albert Usll, which serves as the main porch of the Exhibition. The only new portions of the pile, strictly speaking, are the two ranges of brick building, which form the longer ?? of the parallelogram, and face respectively the Albert and ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... iiportance. Under the circumstances, the popular tenor is entitled to great creditfor the manner in which he acquits himself. His speaking voice, like that of most singers, is somewhat weak and monotonous on the stage, but he labours hard and often successfully ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... production of pdte-svv-pdte, and some of their contributions are not unworthy of a place among the choicest works of Sevres. Speaking generally, we may say that although the english pottery display shows no very decided originality either in form or ornamenta- ...