FORESTER'S ENTERTAINMENT

... rch addressed the meeting upon Forestry. The Order was eat the largest in the world, having lodges il every English- o speaking country. He was glad that the practice of holding Ing tm at public-houses was dying away, and he believed that vasit was ...

THE READER

... write. Even the sanguine and adventurous air perceptible occasionally at its meetings is not unbecoming those who profess to speak for countlies still in the heyday and buoyancy of vouth. Vol. VII., or the Proceedings for I S75-6, is in no way bellind its ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1652 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... position to speak to her father; and it depends on his fulfilling certain conditions whether he will be put in one by his atnt, Mrs. L'Estrange of Throstlethwaite, declaring him her heir. So Ruth, very much against the grain, as much preferring to speak out at ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... more or less sentimentally alluring. Mr. Cowen treats the voices in combina- tion just as happily as when each voice has to speak on its own account ; and this is shown in the choruses. Hisfinales, though not elaborately constructed, are effective enough ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1539 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Poet's Corner

... head Vos hanging on the vall; It vos the moon vich glistened in U pon the butcher small; And 'en he heard the sheep's head speak His spirits they did fall. Behold, you vicked butcher boy, The evils of your trade - I vos a ewe, and yet through you My useful ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... power, but the subject is unpleasantly gloomy. Apropos of 'The Shrine of the Three Kings, is there any legend that they speak on Christmas Eve? Mliss Fane seems to refer to some such tradition. The Poet is clever but morbid, and on tile whole the ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... save On a foreign crew, dirt-cheap ! I've French, Dutch, Turk, and Greek, Swede, Fin, and Portugee- And all the lingoes they speak Are heathen Greek to me! So a death on the Ocean Wave, Andia rae in thegol~ing deep, When I'm knived or knocked on the head ...

AN AMATEUR HAMLET

... WaX-rnler spoke well Is the Qucen ; Miss Lewis inspersonated the player Queen; ail Miss Jessie Warner was a satisfactory Ophelia, speaking with good taste, clearness, and expression. This young lady comes, we believe, from the Tlseatre Royal, Exeter. Mr T. E. ...

Published: Sunday 28 May 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... who speaks seldom, and who speaks ill, is the best leader of the House of Commons. And no doubt the slow-speeched English gentlemen rather sympathise with slow speech in others. Besides, a quick and brilliant leader is apt to be always speaking, whereas ...

SONGS OF LOVE AND LOYALTY

... o'clock he was brought home on ai man's bmaok. One of his legs wee brtoken, and he was very much brnised. He died without speaking is ?? was commnitted for trial for wilfu murder.- ...

An Actor Stricken with Paralysis on the Stage

... Orleans in 1839. He first went on the stage in 1853 as a call boy in the Varieties Theatre, in his native city. The first speaking part he ever played was the Seneschal, in The FIorest of Boady, in the Pelican Theatre, New Orleans. He next appeared in ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SCRAPS FROM COMIC JOURNALS

... army authorities are but acting upon the opinion of the greatest leader of modern days F Did not Napoleon Bonaparte say, speaking of English soldiers, it is a good thing there are not more of them? [From the Hornef.j THE BALANCE OF POWcR.-Politicians ...