... forms but one picture. Nor does the music in the one compartment interfere with the music in the other, as speaking would interfere with speaking in the case of ordinary dialogue. The -contrast between the mystical, half-voluptuous, half-religious chants ...

... the great personal popularity of Mr. Buckstone, and the respect felt for his talents both as an actor and an author -not to speak of his long and honourable management of the Haymarket Theatre. A charge of two guineas for a stall might under ordinary c ...

... an idea what Queen Mab was like. We will not set down aught in malice, at the same time we will not extenuate, but will speak of Alr Godfrey's pro- duction according to its merits. We would, however, first counsel him to avoid that besetting sin of ...

... two centuries and a half before its time. Three hundred years before the Spaniard's doubtful discovery, our own Roger Bacon speaks of a vessel which, being almost wholly submerged, would run faster through the water against waves and winds than the fastest ...

... above the Care- less Bores, people who do not consider how their cul- pable negligence may affect others. 'We will now speak of another kind of bore-a female one, we are sorry to say. This is the bore who builds up such a mountain of millinery on the ...

... totally different creation from the con- ception of Shakespeare. The great genius of that accom- plished lady forced, so to speak, an ideal upon the public which it can be plainly seen was inconsistent in many features with the Lady Macbeth of the poet ...

... intention to train all her pupils for the profession of music. Of the numerous and variegated items of the programme we must speak briefly. The pihce 0de resistance was the incidental music by Gounod to the national drama of Jeanne d'Arc, brought out some ...

... artistes, he did not exaggerate, and also sang the music with excellent articulation and good tone, so that we are enabled to speak of Signor Fio-ini as a thoroughly successful debutante. Signor Romani as Basiho was clever, and the Figaro of Signor Del Puente ...

... Not a word will I speak again until I have your leave. I calls it onhandsome of your Worship to say that; being so contrary of my best karaksteristicks. Your Worship maneth all things for the best, I am pursuaded ; but speaking thus you drives me ...

... class. His French song is an amazingly clever skit upon the ?? flinkey vhonaspires to follow the advice of Mlaautilini-to speak lrench like a dem'd native. Miss E. Frarren anti Miss A. Hill perform tleirr respective parts with much success. THEATRE ...

... judgment he would be a very fair actor. We may give to both gentlemen the hint Hamlet gave to the Players, to let their Clowns speak only what is set down for them. Messrs Shackleton and Williamson were both sinners in this respect, and in one instance descended ...

... distraction of commercial life, and should have produced a work marked by so much cleverness and originality, but it also speaks volumes for the esti- mation in which the Church is held in our great centres of industry. The work has many failings, nor ...