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... -particularly Nevil's uncle, the stout Lord Romfrey-that we should like to say had we not already exceeded our limits. In speaking of it as disappointing, we compare Mr. Meredith, as he has a right to be compared, with himself on former occasions, and ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... and their birth raise the story of their sorrows above a mortal pitch, and it is with design that the language in which they speak is of the loftiest character possible. ' Erechtheus ' is not a poem that appeals to any fashion of the day, or that those who ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... (comic), and Howard Oakley ka capital bari- tone), Business good. MANCHESTER. TiniAara RovAs..-(Maiiager, Mr W. Sidney. )-Speaking from a lengthened experience of the local Theatres, we should say that the present has been the most remunerative New Year's ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 20238 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... giisette. This quadrille is screamingly funny, but unlike some Parisian Inuadrilles of which it has been sometimes our task to speak writh diaspproval, it is perfectly harmless, and is so full of comicality that it frequently gains a double encore. The music ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 11751 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

WARHAWK

... WARHA WK. SPEAKING of Shakhspeare, Hallam remarks that we know him personally only by the reflex image of the objectivity in which he was manifested. This is all we know of Warhawk. The reflex image, however, of Warhawk's objectivity is peculiarly ...

ROMEO AND JULIET

... Juliet loses nothing of its beauty in Signor Rossi's mouth, and here to some extent the music of the language in which he is speaking makes up for the loss of the familiar verses of the original. Thenceforward the interest lies chiefly with Juliet, and the ...

LITERATURE

... the simple majesty of the painter's front door. Prince Albert was one day seen to ride by and to look up at the house and speak to his equerry. His Roycl Hightness hadp not the courage to come in. A cat may look at a king with impunity, but not, it seems ...

ART

... for the first time, is enough in itself to give the modern English school an enduring place in art his- tory. When critics speak of the kind of beauty that a painter may seek, and try to distinguish it from the many other kinds of beauty that his means ...

DRAMA

... such a character as Imogen. Miss Howard, too, deserves mention as an actress of great promise. We are sorry that we cannot speak better of this play. Mr. Hatton could, we believe, write a good melo- drama, and in saving that we are really giving him high ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... a majority, and consequently actors and author were called before the curtain. THEAT3ICAL CHIT-CHAT. The Brooklyn ?? thus speaks of Mr. Jolly Nash 1the popalar English music-hall ?? Nash the great English comique, who is said to have refused an offer ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... comedy upon the Stage most charmilngly. Of the merits of tle different onembers of Oel' ,7S colnPnlY it is somessloat late to speak, seeing that thley have been before the Provincial public in this piece 00c0 for sonse twvo hlndred aind fifty moights, aod ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 19204 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POLITICS AND THE STAGE

... proloisged, Wvhten csoters convicted at thlit *nle tincte of the political oflfence only linte been libeusted. }Ijot sit, I speak sttsder corro~tioti 'then I1 ask tbis question:- tehese titan beets tried for tle eniliary crime of mutiniy by nbu~al comnpetent ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2080 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture