THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... dlram, and make all things end well. The part of Raquard was acted by M. Henri Stuart-from the Porte St. Martin Theatre-who speaks Enllish with a French accent, and acts in the easy, off- iasid minaer peculiar to the French stage, and accounted natural-as ...

Published: Sunday 03 January 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1549 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

This Evening's News

... interview lasted about a quarter of an hour, and the conver- sationI wras carried on ill English, which the Duchess of Magenta speaks gracefully and COtltCtly. At a quarter-past three the Lady Mayoress returned to the hotel through a row('d which saluted her ...

HAGARENE.*

... an extremely repulsive group. e Both the plot and the style of Hagarene are excellent examples of , the art of, so to speak, striking tintacks with a sledgehammer. The utterly a Lnnecessary disguise of the heroine as a beggar, Major Griffiths' absolutely ...

LITERATURE

... Himself and His fortunes very intimately l with the leading incidents therein recorded, and we but e stultify ourselves if we speak of Him as at once the most a perfect moralist that ever lived, and as one who founded b Hisewhole ethical syst-m upon a lie ...

Literature

... their custonas. We aire told that ha A icetmse is exacted from every one intekngoufAeat t wearing gold ornaments. Strictly speaking, III the Ild found kl belotigs to the knt , and when a nobleman or other rich uian dies all the gold which on uay leave behind ...

SELECTIONS FROM HEINE.*

... rescuct Ic those cold, sober tulips in porcelain vases which seem as if they, too, )vtre made of porcelain. Could the tulips speak they would certainly ecp1tlli how they grew from bulbs ; how, on this earth, one need only avoid givill out a bad odour; and ...

THE OPENING OF THE PARIS OPERA

... tion, both of the' performance anud the general spectacle afforded by the theatre, the staircase, and the saloon, which it speaks of as symbols of excessive. luury, materialism run wild, and golden calf worship. Frenchdemo- cracy should be pleased to see ...

THE LAND OF THE CZAR.*

... exceedingly limited it is easy to learn the whole by heart ? We are further infoimed in regard to the Koriaks ( who seldom speak the Tchouktchi tongue ) that they are witty and capable of giving replies of stinging sarcasm; but they are vindictive, and ...

THE LAND OF THE CZAR

... exceedingly limited it is easy to learn the whole by heart ? We are further infoimed in regard to the Koriaks ( who seldom speak the Tchouktchi tongue). that they are witty and capable of giving replies of stinging sarcasm; but they are vindictive, and ...

LITERATURE

... far fron {'the roadway that recalls one of the strong slayers of Caesar. He sees pallid forms arise, and he hears a voice speak disdainfully:-- Deliberately, solemnly, did we front death and infamy from the many, to teach them that a single weapon may ...

New Novels

... this false step, and bring matters round as she would have them, she enters without remorse on a course of systematic evil speaking, lying, and slandering, defames Lord Avehury to Pettita, and Pettita to Lord Avebury, and does her best to persuade everybody ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1042 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE NEW PARIS GRAND OPERA

... respectively a smoking-room and buffet, but these are not yet completed. Of the auditorium and stage arrangements we shall speak next weel, when we shall give a page illustration of the interior, but we may mention that it is calculated to hold 2,156 persons ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture