Cripps the Carrier

... is crafty enough without that, as his principal client, the Devil, knows. ' I will not speak of it,'the Squire answered; such a crotchet is not worth speaking of, and it might get you into great trouble. With one thing and another now, I am so knocked ...

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 ...

PAST ACTORS AND PRESENT ACTORS

... collar, the whole costume being completed by a greasy hat, we were wont to set the possessor down as an actor; and, generally speaking, we were not far wrong in our surmise. How differently should we have to judge now! It is among the be-t-dressed men of London ...

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 

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, ...

LITERATURE

... questions, Why' en should I open my hand? Why should I open my de heart? Why should I speak to my brother? will never be asked agaiu. Is it not far better to speak de than to walk threegh life silet, unknown unknow- th ing? Has any one of us ever spoken ...