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THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... Georgina of Miss Emily Rigl was far from satisfactory. Perhaps it is expect- ing too netlen for a merry French young woman, speaking English with a strong French accent, to fill the ideal of a young English girl; and in his very large company Mr Daly might ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1660 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Promenade Concerts, Covent-garden

... bouffe during her recent tours in New Zealand, Australia. and India, has returned to England. The Colonii L and Indian press speak in enthusiastic terms of her ablilties, referring especially to her performances in Der FrciscluZ, Alanitanar, and the popular ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... commonlwy known as the ree Thought Associationo and was to speak at a great. meeting at St. 3amess Hall. His mother called on hie,. and on her knees offered him fall ?? if he would not speak. He told her it was too late, and: hinted that her Highi Church ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... such brilliant audiences. (Cheers.) I cannot ttatik you properly. I cannot speak to you in a stereotyped manner, and I have not learnted a speeth . lamn so much aecustonced to speak in other people's wrords that I bare no words of my own to express what ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14542 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GARDEN.—BY MR. W. EARLEY

... co~meuece tediciug your extent of apertures and the admittanee of outer air, until eventually you find yourself really, so to speak, feady for al emergency, or winter-bound. By these mieans you will gradually, and, what is more, you will naturally inure your ...

JANE SHORES OF THE PAST

... closcil Sheo wouldI not haVe hakd iiiucii temp1ta- tion to indulge thin It diiit ill JTane Shore. Onoe of her chro- niclers speaks of hei clegtance aind Sprightliness, atid asserts that shne wats Super ioi to l tho e atresses of Iser time, adding that her ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2042 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OUIDA ON THE ENGLISH STAGE

... all students of our beautiful art will'bett fast when they hear why Ouida does not desire to be dramatised. Let the lady speak in her own words :- I have at all times refused permission to dramatise nay works, considering as I do, tflat in the present ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3284 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... could not fail to be welcome in the prcsent revival of English opera. Offenbach is also engaged upon the theme, and, if report speaks truly, the cont ic opera of this lively composes, for which M. Sardou has supplied the libretto, promises to be one of his ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2864 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

JANE SHORE

... she is told to quit her house at once, and she finds her only friend in honest John Grist, who, considering that, morally speaking, nothing has been changed, and there is only one Royal protector the less, receives her with a somewhat illogical effusiveness ...

DANIEL DERONDA.*

... the rest of the world. Science is beginning to tell upon her by artificializing her thought, and by professionalizing, so to speak, her wit, as well as by detracting from the former perfection of her literary manner. This would be in itself a heavy enough ...

TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA

... 'them,' ' Uly and ;.brutal-looking, aI lying, ?? set,, are the terms whieoj occurto doloneil Long when he 'has 'ooasion to speak of the character of . the' people. He has no Vatlenge with .tbhe ol~p-tr pas sihouted-by ignorant huwmanitarins. 'We do xot ...

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE

... known, however, that the sum he was able to send every year was utterly insufficient to pay for the child's education-I do not speak of an education befitting Sir Cosmo Lowry's daughter, but any decent teaching at all. Mary flushed red to the roots of her ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6724 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture