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LITERATURE

... the trm y, the naval system, the nationual defences, &o e sbitter against Mr. (lardwell on accounb of his Army bilil; and speaking of the folly of creating and (omrenting discontent among; our military 'men, a suob a moment as this, he asks: Bnt Is It ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... explained by Mr. Charles Sinclair, who acted as spokessan for the party. He stated that the gentlemen who had deputed him to speak on their behalf represented a few patrons of the Hall, who wished to present Mr. R. Fort, the Proprietor of the establishment ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Tesdays, at residence, 1A, Margaret-street. at l and halt-past S. Private, School, and Correpopndence Lesions. Extemnporaneous Speaking taught in one lesson. lie meoanry too bad for Improvement. i okes en Hemorsy. 4th tho _t 11! II11bWXD=N retusacteat, itames ...

LITERATURE

... in English, French, German, and Italian, which, if they do not profess to make a country farmer or a thoroughbred Cockney speak like a native at the first trial, are at least of great service in enabling him to get food, lodging, and travelling accomtnodation ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2932 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... was pro. bably the attempt to rely too much on the attractions of native compositions; dramatic genius in music being, to speak mildly, rare among British composers, whatever may be their powers in other forms of composition, The most popular of all the ...

THE CLOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... cultivation, It included 22,517 articles sent in by British exhibitors, 1,986 from the Colonies and foreign countries, not to speak-of 8,452 which were rejected by the Committee of Selection. The gross nnmber of visitors during Whit-week was 71,390, and one ...

LORD DERBY ON SCIENCE AND ART

... art in p laces where all natural beauty is driven away and destroyed. D LORD VERNON ON THE LAND QUESTION. I Lord Vernon, speaking at the dinner of the East Cheshire d Agricultural Society on Tuesday night, referred to Lord I Derby's recent speech on the ...

TAINE'S NOTES ON ENGLAND

... consolation, our asylum, our protector. In relation to this a story was told of a sailor going to sea who replied to a gentleman speaking about the risk he ran, It is true that my father was drowned, that my brother was drowned, and that my grandfather was ...

Literature

... once goes on with an address, in which he manifests an exact knowledge of the habits and mode of life of those to whom he speaks. His style Is famiDlar, though pointed and severe; but it is neither canting nor mawkish. He has caught the ear of an audience ...

HETTY

... creditors of a limited company on its road to a smash. Finally he and Rebecca connive at the escape of two burglars. Every one speaks his or her mind, and criticises or advises with a directness, a brutal candour of speech, worthy of Prince Bismarck. You ...

TAINE'S NOTES ON ENGLAND

... shabbily-dressed, badly-educated, cont- coeited, hardly one degree raised above photographers. The latter are workmen who cannot speak English, and who merely form food for ridicule. Thackeray frequently struggled against the common opinion with respect to artists; ...

ARTISTIC AND LITERARY

... what reputation it possesses, and for a battlingiplace it has one great, I had aluost said daninting, fault, Nowhere, anld I speak not without a considerable knsowledge of the rivers, lakes, and sea bettinrg-plsess of a grest part of Europe, are there at ...