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MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN INDIA

... blit one triutmpit left to aeconioplisit. Rt is to perform it, Italian bhfore ?? Ititlitso auslience and, as lie writes Dnd speaks shis lsangsage in its m any dialects almost as flu- entily as b e doeis his s atv- tongue, and as, thoughl not young in years ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DEAD CITIES OF THE ZUYDER ZEE.*

... apply theniselves to scientific studies; and probably as many ladies are to be found in Holland as in Russia or in Poland speaking three foreign languages as well as their own native tongue. To know the Dutch language alone, as to know one of the Slavonian ...

PEACE

... tongues, Shall ne'er undo. In such an hour, When eager hands are fetter'd and too few, And hearts alone have leave to bleed, Speak; for a good word then is a good deed. C. P. ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... COURRENT L tT1V1 AUR'S lthe literature of l6i 'in adi dcuiiS , cdu sidorable space in 4biblitufrsyhieal* rk - iiot t' speak of books in which life, in this famous semi- nary, and the doings of eominont LItonians are inci- dontally troated, tHitherto, ...

DRAMA

... more than a mention. MisS Neilson received from the audietioe on Monday an enthusiastic and even tumultuous welcome; not to speak of an espenditure of bouquets which might perhaps be described at Without parallel in the memory of the most ancient playgoer ...

THE SYLVAN YEAR.*

... What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any sensible reality; and, again, speaking of the song of birds, The feeling they reach within us is a poetical and not a musical feeling, and describes a garden ...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE GALATIANS.*

... understanding and answering their inquiries. Only when Lucian comes to speak of visitors coming from a distance, people from Italy, barbarians, Scythians, he mentions those who speak Celtic, and dwells on the difficulty there was in understanding and answering ...

New Music

... by Walter Maynard, the music by W. C. Levey.-Others before Arthur Cecil have set Mrs. Hemans' beautiful poem, I Hear Thee Speak of a Better Land to music, and with greater success. In his case the setting is not worthy of the gem. A cheerful Rong written ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.*

... remarkable of his merits. To take but three of those manifold forms and functions of the human mind of which Mr. Forster speaks-wit, reflection, and literary judgment: we find these displayed in the Imaginary Conversations with a wealth and power ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... The Poet's Song is musical, though, perhaps, too obvious an echo. WVaifs and Strays, ' by Caerleon (Provost), is hard to speak about. One does not want to be severe on a young writer, but it would be false kindness to hide the fact that, apart from the ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 7 | 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

... purpose and no inconsiderable skill in artistically rendering his inten- tions. Not havina seen the score of the work, we can speak only of our impression after a single hearing; perhaps we may return to the Magnificat on a future occasion. The following ...