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THEATRES

... animals and the best fitted stables belong to these nonde- scripts. Horse-dealing is surrounded in Turkey with great mystery-we speak not of the great roguery. A few days ago the gentleman who occasionally sends sketches to TiE GRAPIliC, after being bound over ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2011 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY NOTICES

... housemaid at all. She has a thirst for knowledge which is ad very remarkable, and a good deal of musical talent, 8he - ad speaks and reeds three languages-Kafir, English, and ee Dutch-with perfect fluency and facility; and is trying I on hard to learn ...

JOTTINGS FROM A TRAVELLER'S NOTE BOOK

... little trade done in ease0 lobsters and crabs. Visiting London shortly afterwards I went into Billicisgate market, and oni speaking to one retr factor, lie informed meo that his average weekly sale of itber periwinkles alone wagi 200 tons-.annually 10,400 ...

GWEN WYNN:

... suph laws-sunrighteons- opproqsive to the poorr? Woe they otherwise, the poacher would be a patriot. As for Dempsey. they who speak ill of him are only the anvioy3-envying his good looks, and fine mental qualities. For he's clo-er, and they can't say nay- ...

MUSIC

... same theatre Titiens in the one and Faure in the other, and thus are spoiled for both. About the rest it is unnecessary to speak in detail. Ilhe execution of the somewltat elaborate music of M. Ambroise Ibolias, under the direction of Signor Bevignani ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1922 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... Church, He was immediately presented by the King to the living of Bemerton, and set out upon the course of which Izaak Walton speaks as that almost incredible and ' great sanctity of the short remainder of his holy life; a life so full of charity, humility ...

VARIETIES

... returning thanks to those who drank his health, modestly observed that he was more fitted for the scaffold than public speaking. In the oil regions of Pennsylvania the speculators have made bets on the number of oil tanks which will bo struck by lightning ...

LITERATURE

... Slavonia and Crosti Says the correspondent:- The inhabitants of Slavonia and Croatia, like the Bot- nisns, Sliv, by race, and speaking the same language as th fugees bad received them with all the hospitality dadh 'ae in t-heir power. At ieasttlie sheiter ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... humanity too often, where his strength has superseded man's industry; hut of such things the Machinery Hall is no place to speak, and, to be honest, o never thinks Df such things there. One thinks only of the glorious trinumphs of skill and invention; ...

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... to-night at the G YMNASE. i. 3IONTIGreeY1 has just engaged for the Cymnase a young actress. ~didle. Dinelli, of whom report speaks very flatteringly. 'l'Hc death is announced at an advanced age of Mcllle. Alex- aediiec Nooblet, a lady who was one of the ...

Published: Sunday 16 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1697 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... through ysoar enconragement, to keep the theatre open with ornly ore week' s vacation. N~ow this is a very gratifyin g fact, and speaks volumes, as without your support even the Old Olympic, with all its treasured memories and long list of pleasant associations ...

ANCIENT CHINESE POETRY.*

... equivalent for the Hebrew Elohim and Greek Theos is given differently, on apparently equal authority. The odes do not speak of the worship which was paid to their God, unless it be incidentally; but of the ceremonies at the sacrifices in the Royal ...