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... Our Ribrarp Cable. LONDON SOCIETY, for April. -London: R. Bentley and Son, 3, New Burlington-street. The interest of the leading tale in this period. ical, The Room in the Dragon Volante, in- creases as it proceeds ; the Travels of Young Coeleb's are continued; and there is a well told completeimle, Little Polly Pilkiugton. The other articles, in prose and verse, are varied and good. ...

THOMASINA

... TH OMA SINA. * THis is undeniably a pleasing story. It is not brilliant or sarcastic, and. contains neither sermons nor epigrams; but it is drawn with some know- ledge of human nature, though limited in degree. The men are neither anatomized nor idealized, but present themselves with precisely the rough and somewhat dull and commonplace outside in which they appear to- the uninterested of ...

POETRY

... EARLY VIOLETS. ligh through the blue of noon The clouds move sweet with rain, Fleecy, and white, and pure, Sheep in a sunny plain, While sudden drops are blown And splinter on the pane. 0, for the April woods That never shadows hold. Fresh with the shining leaves, Sweet with the odorous mould I And 0, for primrose nooks Of greenness starred with gold I 0, for the hedgerow ways Winding through ...

MR. STIMPSON ON CHURCH MUSIC

... MR. STIMPSON ONOHURCH MUSICS Last evening, Mr. J. Stimpson gave the first of tw lectures, at the Town Hall, on the subject of Chnr4 Muslo, to the members of the Church of England yoe Men's Association; the Bev. C. Evans presided. Th lecture was musically illustrated upon the organ, ari a selected choir; Ur. Bond, organist of the Wedna~t Old Church, at the organ. Mr. BTflPSON said his leot a ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... TEE LONDON THEATRES. continued prosperity attends the principal places of druaatic amnusement in the Metropolis, and no novelty seems inimediately required. 'The second morning per- foriitaiice of Pyjpy alioi and Gkalatea will take place a' the iI AYMAjlCREI this day (Saturday), when Mr. Kendal will also appear as Horatio Craven, in Leman Rede's par-ing farce of H1is FIrst (Ysamjaogne. iHilda, ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3437 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... .ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDMIg.) NEW YORK, MARCH 25.-The Strakoch Italian Opera Com- pany concluded a most successful engagement even g at the ACADEMY OF Music. The principea onthepemven ot tbhepast week was the preduction of Ambroise Thomas's opera ef Hamlet, which was performed for the first time in Ameriza on the 22d, with the following cast :-Claudius, Mons. J. Jamet; Hamlet, Moos. A. Barre; ...

Published: Sunday 14 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2716 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Amateurs at the King's-cross Theatre

... This little house was filled to excess on Monday by the friends and members of the Globe Philanthropic Society, whose praise- worthy object, we believe, it is to distribute assistance from the funds raised by various means to the deserving poor of the district in which it is held. Among these means we find dramatic enter- tainments, for the Society numbers certain amateurs thoroughly competent ...

Published: Sunday 14 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1617 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... AMERICAN TEATRICALBS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRfSPONDm NT.) NEW YORK, APRIL 1.-The chief Theatrical event in this city during the past week was the appearance of Miss Carlotta Leclercq last Monday at BOOTe'S THEATRE, when she enacted Rosalino, in the comedy of As Fou Like It, in a very charming manner. She received excellent support from Miss Pateman as Celia; Miss Mary Wells, Audrey; Miss Teresa ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2704 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... F~ASHION AND VARIETIES. THE VICEREGAL COURT. Yesiterdas evening their Excellencies the Lord Lieu- tenant and the Countess Spencer gave a dance at the Vicotogal Lodge, to bhich the fol!owing had the honotir of beinA invited :-The Lord Chancellor and Lidy Erfagan, tio Mdarquis and Mlarchioness of Waterford, the Marquis and Aar-hioness of Drogheda. the Marquis and Mlaroioness of Dlownshire and ...

POETRY

... POETRY JACK AT THE MILL. T'other day-'twas in summer's meridian- I, loving to fish and to dream, Was wont to Pay visits quotidian To Eden's miraculous stream. With lay meerschaum and good pocket flagon, flight merry the life that Iled By the river that Uther Pendragon Tried vainly to turn from its bed. One obarm had the river; that very Soon set my poor brain in a whirl; I used to be rowed ...

BACH'S ST MATTHEW PASSION MUSIC

... It will be noticed from advertisement that our a Choral Union intend to produce Bach's greatest t work foi the girit time in Scqtland to-morrow b n tight. We had intended th inorning to a Lgve a 4etailed account of its many beauties C &b id musical characteristics. Thanks, however, I 3 the Directors of the society, this is rendered unnecessary. They have pablished an admir. bio programme, ...

THE HORSE SHOW IN PARIS

... ~ .. I ~~t OJSE SHOW IN ERI I . . H J, i ; _ I i ?? . i p .Mi1MS TUSDiAY. CourR Afz.p~ile, r a~f S i~ ,£'I af&~i-se i :the inioriptiion ino to be seen on a special ?? stuckl onitlhe to, ?? eve#y omnibus couverging to- wards the Champs EIysea.. As no advertisenent falls upon absolutely barreni ground, agreat many .people go',to'the COitmpiBle* 'to, ee the horse show. Tliey naturallysuippose ...