... passing reference is needed to its stately allegro, sO elaborately Introduced and carried out; its sombre funeral march, which speaks in tones so impres- sively solemn, and the subsequent dagto assa£, thoroughly Handellan in every part; the crlsp and catching ...

... warrior's helmet. M. Laroche frequently appears in the part of a light-hearted and well-bred young man. He moves well and speaks well, but he wants gaiety, and would succeed better if he could rid himself of a crooked and sickly smile which he employs ...

... bouffe during her recent tours in New Zealand, Australia. and India, has returned to England. The Colonii L and Indian press speak in enthusiastic terms of her ablilties, referring especially to her performances in Der FrciscluZ, Alanitanar, and the popular ...

... Not a word will I speak again until I have your leave. I calls it onhandsome of your Worship to say that; being so contrary of my best karaksteristicks. Your Worship maneth all things for the best, I am pursuaded ; but speaking thus you drives me ...

... persons who knew that part of his history, and with whom, therefore, he thought it best to speak freely of his unsuccessful efforts in the theatrical line. When he did speak of them, he always exaggerated both his own artistic failure and the miserable quality ...

... enthusiastic way called him on one occasion an angel of a musician. He cer- tainly was dubbed a knight and an R.A., to speak with IMr Browning, but the number of his works which have any chance of immortality is, we are afraid, comparatively small ...

... Chapman, and Dnbois, havn assuredly emorted wondera in effecting this bhange. THEATE~lICAL CHZT-2CEAr The New Yorkb Mlereetj, speaking of Mdlle. Titiens at Boston, says ?? Mdlne. Titiens opened, the Italia.n 'Jpera as Nor-ma. She was quite hoarse, and failed ...

... regrets the remembrance of a purer passion, became identified with Wagner's artistic purification. We are of course not speaking of dry detailed symbolism in the ordinary sense; but at the same time it cannot for a moment be denied that Wagner has succeeded ...

... indeed, he has not acted as his own 5fpt5C. On his own head, therefore, rests the Ze or blame, if there be either; and, speaking athefirs hsty impressn, we are inc]ined to i that he will be credited with less of the -ibrrer thant of the latter.' We shall ...

... of the day, enabling us at a glance to see the fashions, habits, and nanners of our forefathers. It hsas been the custom to speak of George Cruikshank as a caricaturist, but such a term only describes one phase of his many-sided genius. Ho is some- times ...

... having been presented by the Societe Bruxelloise ; and with a white mare, Traviata, the Signor himself, of whom his company speak in warm terms, does the haute c ole. There are also ponies, dogs, andi monkeys in the company, a stag that works in the ...

... which he plapes his face, made up to suit the occasion. In this way, and by cleverly changing his voice, he gave capital speaking likenesses of Mr Henry Marston as Wellborn, in A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Mr Buckstone as Cousin Joe, in. A Rough Diacamod; ...