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CONCERNING A CATASTROPHE

... relation to its final incidents. In Shakespeare, as we all know, Romeo duly swallows his poison, and, testifying to the truth-speaking of the apothecary and the rapid action of his drugs, dies straightway, before Juliet has had time to awaken from her trance ...

New Novels

... boys and girls, though he hopes it will not be shunned by men and women on that account. We are at any rate in a position to speak with confi- dence as to the feelings of one adult, who has read it with unmixed enjoyment and satisfaction. Tom Sawyer is far ...

LITERATURE

... character, and the writer avails herself of. them with the utmost energy and humour. We have used the feminine pronoun in speaking of the writer, but the sex is not very easy to make out; on the one hand, only a woman could have the intimate knowledge ...

MUSIC

... shows himself at his best is precisely where he has always demonstrated his power; we mean where he causes his personages to speak in soliloquy, or with each other, in earnest and impassioned language. Engaged upon such situa- tions he is still the Verdi ...

VARIETIES

... restore a man apparently drowned; says one who has ?? it, is o to first dry him thoroughly inside and out, and then clap a speaking-trumpet to his ear and inform him that his mother-in-law is dead. A Lebanon county editor has constructed a printing l machine ...

DRAMA

... warrior's helmet. M. Laroche frequently appears in the part of a light-hearted and well-bred young man. He moves well and speaks well, but he wants gaiety, and would succeed better if he could rid himself of a crooked and sickly smile which he employs ...

LITERARY NOTICE

... ritualistic )no literature, and makes Dr. Lee and Mr. Orby nd Shipley, the little prayer book, and the kiss Oa- of peace speak for themselves. We thoroughly th- agree with Mr. Loraine that Church of England y, people in particular are really not aware ...

AMATEURS AT ALDERSHOT

... Warren (81st Regiment) was Ernest Waldburg, and supported the character in an easy and agree- able manner. This gentleman speaks distinctly,. and is audible all over the house, which is not always the case here, the acoustic arrangements being far from ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... clever cisaracter actor ; arid .Itr- 0. Tece-te evlirced natural ease cud vivacity as Frederick. It reerateso now' for us to speak of Mliss Cosrpton as Eneily Worth- icegeonr, andi, irs asdeavouring to make suitable acknowaleigmnset of the uredoubted albility ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14740 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... was more struck by Mliss Jennie Lee's impelsonnatiosn of Jo than by any other perforiiiaiice i.e wit- iiessedill Losidon. le speaks of it in the warmnest ternis of praise, and assures the lady that if iaone day she should come to Paris, even with an Elmglishl ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LYCEUM THEATRE

... added to the already potent attraction of The Bills. Hew genially you welcomed the merry little comedy it is hardly for sue to speak. And now for the close of my esecant. Last evening Miss Helen Faueit-a lady whose name stands highest and brightest among living ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OPERA COMIQUE

... and before, which has so often supplied materials for the caricaturist. Briefly to sum up the merits of Madame Thio, we may speak of her as one of the very best perforsmers of the class, and we can give her no higher praise than to say that in many respects ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture