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... A HUNDRED years hence those of our great grandchildren who may be curious as to the ways of their ancestors in 1870, will receive great help in their investigations if they are fortunate en ...
... A HUNDRED years hence those of our great grandchildren who may be curious as to the ways of their ancestors in 1870, will receive great help in their investigations if they are fortunate en ...
... IN connection with Covent Garden Theatre we have again to speak of artists rather than operas. Happily, however, there is an immediate prospect of change; Gelmina, the new work by Prince Poniato ...
... PRINCE PONIATOWSKI'S new opera, Gelmina, was to have been produced at Covent Garden on Tuesday last; and crowds of amateurs flocked thither in hope of seeing it, only, however, to be disappointe ...
... A GLANCE at the pages of the weekly newspaper which devotes itself almost exclusively to theatrical matters would be sufficient to in dicate that we are entering upon the provincial seaso ...
... IN Middlemarch (Book IV., Blackwood and Sons), we have less incident and more analysis than in the preceding instalments of the story. We learn more of most of the personages, but have bu ...
... DURING the Derby and Ascot weeks, and the week intervening, the London operatic season is at its height, crowded audiences being a rule with very few exceptions. It is not just now, there fore, ...
... LUCY FITZADAM: an Autobiography (2 vols., Smith and Elder). This very clever book, we are glad to say, is plainly a first novel, and as such it is indeed full of promise for the future. T ...
... ONLY a few years ago the sort of musical burlesque which is known as opera bouffe was regarded as an exotic little adapted to our climate, and the attempt of the GAIETY Theatre to transfe ...
... METZLER AND CO.-- A Day at Venice is a pianoforte piece, described as such in plain English, by Ignace Gibsone, whose music for the drawing-room counts many admirers. Mr. Gibsone has here ...
... en Lion of Granpere. By Anthony Tro' lope (Tinsley). The wine here is altogether of the same vintage with which Mr. Trollope's many readers have been familiar for some dozen years ...
... THE production of Linda di Chamounix at the Royal Italian Opera having been postponed from Saturday to Thursday last, we cannot now gratify such curiosity as may be felt about Mdlle. Albani's pr ...
... THE '1 HE AT RES THE ROYALTY Theatre, which re-opened just four weeks ago under the management of Miss Edith Bertram, has already undergone more than one revolution in its programme. The place of the ...