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AMATEUR PERFORMANCE OF A NEW PLAY

... interests, are both drawn with originality and without caricature. With regard to the acting we can only say that, generally speaking, it was very good. The gentleman who took the part of Mr. Gray created much amusement by the manner in which he brought out ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... powerfully awakened. There is a good deal of the old melodrama abouta the play, and the seamen speak very much as we have been accustomed to hear them speak-on thel stage; but, on the whole, it is not so immoderate as one might have expected from reading ...

LITERARY NOTES

... there are 620 lines allotted to Cleopatra. Of those lines I spoke 504. This is literally accurate. Did Mliss Glyn herself speak many more? it would require a much bolder artist than Miss (fllyn, or any lady, to give the text of Shakspeare in its entirety ...

HERR STIEHL'S CHAMBER CONCERT

... with success. It seems almost unnecessary to enumerate the pieces, which were productive of results of which we are bound to speak in such unexceptional terms, more especially as it is impossible to point oat one notaible and conspicuous' success above the ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... happy-intensely happy. Christianity was a thing taken for granted, not forced with scowl and frown. I never heard my father speak of Calvinism, Arminuanism, Presby. terianism, or Episcopacy, or exaggerate doctrinal differences, in my life. I had to study ...

LORD AND LADY DUFFERIN'S FANCY DRESS BALL AT OTTAWA

... of last month. In- deed, it is no exaggeration to say that some of the Dominion journals of the folh iwingday could hardly speak of anything else. Th e Ottawa Citizen of the 24th February is now be! ore us, and although printed on the ordinary Sized sheets ...

MR. WILLIAM MAXWELL'S READINGS

... grouping that M1r. Maxwell had simply no chance of success. If, however, the authorof the play had made the unhappy king to speak from a pulpit, MIr. Max- well's intonation of the dialogue might have been considered happy. In the sentences spoken by the ...

FASHIONS FOR MAY

... with bright-coloured light silks, silk alpacas, or foulards Of the thinner materials, such as batistes and toilet, we shall speak at greater length next month; for the present it suffices to say that they will be universally worn, and made into very elegant ...

FASHION

... troubles, Tweed was extensively caricatured, and his picture was widely circulated in this country and foreign lands. In speaking of his escape, people remarked that it seemed almost an impossibility to hide such an immense person so that his place of ...

LITERARY NOTICE

... to an j . author, the approbation with which his labourst have been received. It would, indeed, be almost t impossible to speak In too high terms of the magni-a ficence Of1 the work, viewed in every aspect and 'from ?svery standppint. As a elear, simple ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... retalia. tion not more than 30 of the Roman Catholic in- habitants. The deed cannot be justified, but it is preposterous to speak of it as the cause of the massacres of 1641. Dr. Killen fortifies his statement by quotations from MacSl-immin, O'Conor, Reid ...

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION IN THE ULSTER HALL

... Pretty Polly is a green amazon parrot, holding a piece of cake in his foot, and is apparently just looking up to see who is speaking. Of the fine arts department itis unnecessary now tosaytmorethanthat it will takevisitors sonic time before they can say ...