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HARE'S DAYS NEAR ROME.*

... of farm, and tlte genuineic mountain landscape will probably find mare to his taste tn Noantli. or the Di Lighands, not to speak of the Al ~s or Py-renees, titan ?? ?? 1 Cal di 'lenda and Asjtrcnionte. B;ut South of thte Abrut /i,ittei ],i ao ]Iu moe (or ...

Literature

... detail of his women. Of all poetry capable of dispensing perfectly with grossness, finding a more striking substitute in speaking innocently of sin, his love-pieces ought to be the most immoral sing ing in the world. Yet somehow no one seems to f'e! much ...

MUSIC

... ripened dramatic experience of the gifted Swedish songstress, now at the very zenith of her powers. We need not, however, speak of it again in detail. A crowded audience received Madame Nilsson with all the old enthusiasm; and not a single delicate touch ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... Losing Hazard, by Courteney Grant, author of Little Lady Lorraine (2 vols.: Bentley).-We scarcely feel in a position to speak with decision concerning this work, inasinuch as we are conscious that we understand it very imperfectly. Perhaps, as in the ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ST. GEORGE AND ST. MICHAEL

... great eyes, whose glass was growing dull with the vapours from the grave; but her grandfather's voice, the moment he began to speak to her of the good Jesu, brought her soul to its windows. This sultry evening Molly was restless. Madam I madam I she kept ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6036 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... writers who, sharing to some extent the verbal bondage of the old schoolmen, con- tend that political economy should be, so to speak, built up on definitions. The first endeavoar of the student, according to this view, should be to define wealth, and he should ...

MR. TENNYSON'S DRAMA

... be said that any work by Mr. Tennyson has a priori a claim to be so regarded-are so liable to be mistaken that we can only speak of Queen Mary with a certain amount of doubt and hesitation. But our first impressions, whatever their ultimate worth may ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1005 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

IPSWICH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW

... can remember, ever bidden for a a Shorthorn, after Colonel Towneley's Butterfly, which crossed the Antipodes for 1,200 gs. (Speaking from memory, not at the present time of writing having the *- requisite references beside me, I am open to correction.) He ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... -what is your ueller-Johl, said he.- Poor John ! cried the old man; I heard my grandfather, who was your father, often speak of yous, and long did he bewail your absence; fruitless inquiries werens ade of yon, but old Catti MsadleU, of BrOchfa, said ...

ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND

... business habits Be eember, ladies and gentlemen, I am not speaking of the srtunate London actor with his snug room here, his omfortable tottage there, and a handy little sum at his sakers. I em speaking of the poor conntryactorwho on .or SS a week (when he ...

LITERATURE

... They con- sist of one low roosn square or oblongin form, often with- out a window, and only lighted from the open door. I speak here of the men's dwvelling only: the women of the fanmily almost invariably live apart. The ivalls are of clay mixed with ...