EDWIN WILKINS FIELD

... EDWIN WILKINS FIELD.g IT is fitting that some memorial should be preserved of a man so gifted as the late Mr. Field, and Dr. Sadler's brief account of his friend is marked by good taste and just appreciation of his fine qualities. Boundless energy -and fulness of life were striking characteristics of Mr. Field. He did every- thing with his might, and his enthusiasm and intellectual ...

POETRY

... POETRY- ON 'A CASTLE IN RUINS. (Translatedfrom the Italian.) Whose was this stately edifice that lies In heaps, o'erthrown by thee ? Oh Time, declare. Time stays not to reply, but quickly flies, Spreading his rapid pinions to the air. Speak, Fame, for thou giv'st lustre and renown To kings most rare, exalting each by turns.1 In trouble and confusion Fame looks down, And, like one sorrowful, ...

DRAMA

... i6 I . ?? , , . I ?? ?? , AS~not inirleaque, enftited The Z aetof 46as krone nnd foubded ,iLoxd Lytto.' novel of that name, wvas 4'per'frtedforithefirsttimeat this theatae on 'Thursday evning, The auttor is Mr. L H. P. Du' Terroa u .genltemaun whlo, tbong; 'knownates a'gracefal song *rltex aid aeontt'ributor-to thsemenagarines, has not, we believe, hitherto eappeaed before the publio as a ...

ALEXANDRA DRAMATIC CLUB

... A very respectable audience filled the, King's-cross Theatre on Monday evening to witness a dramatic performance given by the members of the above Club. It is so much the fashion for amateurs to plead charitv as an excuse for their temerity that we were not a little astonished to find that on this occasion the Alexandrians challenged support upon their merits, and asked fees, ranging from half ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... LITERARY [ISCELLANEA. A COAmt ACROSS THE PAMPAs.-We now entered, says a South American traveller, upon plains, where, for the first time, I saw wild deer and ostriches, and here we eujoyed a glorious chase. W~e 'were going at ralier a gentle pace, wzhen we catne upon a herd of deer; they did not appear to take much notice of us until we were DearI enough for them to hear the mare's bell, the ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... FASmION AND I THE VICEREGAL COURT. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, aeeonopanied by te ?? of Drogheda and the Earl and Cotmltess of Shannon. and attended by Captain Mark Wood and Mr. C. Boyle, was present at the theatricals given in behalf of the Driommond Institution at the Gaiety Theatre last night. Tne Marquis of Headfort and the Ladies Taylour, the Earl of Wicklow and the ?? Howard. the ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... THy LONDON TREATREB. Scarcely auy change has taken place in the perform- cs of the London Theatres during the past week, sadlg those who maintain that no news,, is ' good news may be, perhaps, induced to regard the present ,.3Jest of the dramatic world as pleasantly corroborative i the old adage. 'The explanation of the prosperity of tie wcest-end dramatic establishments is, of course, ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3823 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...

RECENT NOVELS

... -RECENT iYOVELS. I 'After a period of repose vhih has been ascribed 'by the public to severe and lengthened indisposi- ition. the authoress of ?? Audley's Secret once more resiumes her la ibours. Robert Ainslie (3 vole., Maxwell) is so unlike all that this clever and enterprising writer has hitherto achieved that rwe doubt wheter an expert in literary wares would have ascribed it to any ...

HER MAJESTY'S OPERA

... HER XAJESTY'S OPERA. Madame Trebelli-Bettini, justly accounted one of the most per- fect vocalists of the day, appeared for the first time this season on Tuesday evening as Urbano in Les Hsouguenots. Singers in the pure Italian school are comparatively rare now-a-days, and we could ill afford to lose such a perfect exponent of the legitimate in vocalisation as the lady who has just returned to ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Extensive House Property in East North Street FO E. There will be Exposed to Sale, by Public Roup, within the

... Offices of Messrs Webster, Advocates, King Street, upon Tuesday, the 14th day of May next, at Two o’clock, Afternoon, by virtue of the powers contained in Bond and Disposition in Security, THE DWELLING-HOUSES, Numbers 20, 22, and 24, East North Street, and and 42, Shuttle Lane, with Court-yard and Cellarage. Rental, £6B. Ground Rent, £2. The Upset Price and farther information maybe obtained ...

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 ...