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NAVAL GOSSIP.*

... with either of the belligerents; but you ought to interpose your forces between them and coerce them into peace, with your speaking-trumpet, if the thing is possible-with your guns, if you cannot manage it otherwise. It is almost impossible to understand ...

MICHEL STROGOFF.*

... then, each for himself and God. . . . God for me ! Ultimately this charming pair shake hands, and agree to remain on speaking terms till they are at the seat of war, when, as larry takes care to remind Alcides, they are to be enemies. At dinner ...

LITERATURE

... Mrs. Jennings has thought it unnecessary to preface her memoir of Rabel with any introduction or apology. Nor, strictly speaking, is any required; if famous books and famous actions are recognised as a sufficient plea for biographical record, more noteworthy ...

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE

... followed ; but no sound. You hear me, and you can answer me. Do so. She made a visible effort to speak, but again without result. Speak, I say ! You can speak. Do you hear me? Yes, was breathed forth in a low, hissing whisper. There was an instant's ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7123 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURRENT LITERATURE

... ihpensable book of reference. St( Most students of German have probably suffered oen from the immense proportions, and, so to speak, to CiGmerian darkness and complexity of some of th the larger German dictionaries. Beginners, an rnd even senior readers, ...

BOUDOIR BALLADS.*

... must have been charm- ing, or Mr Stony would not have caught so much graceful inspiration from the subject. Daisy's Dimples speak for themselves. Blankton Weir is a waterside lyric, more ambitious than most that we find here. It will commend itself to ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SUCCESSES

... never gone far down into ens- hearts-; sobbisgs would find no echo like to those sounds which confirm the sucesscs of which we speak. The very lovc-snaking mnust hsave beer To the hulesreinig of thir hragur-fly and muurmuring of tine streasu, as the author ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1742 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... entitled New Year amongst the Flayers,'by HI. Lowther. THEATRICAL TRAMPS. We have pitched-our tents in Derbyshire; or, to speak plainly, had fitted -up a theatre in the long room of a public-house in the sleepy little market town ef Willow- on-the-Maze ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... married, and all is changed. From that time until she bears a child, she never-speaks to any one but her husband, and then only in private. After she becomes a mother she 'may speak to her mother-in4awfrst, and, after the lapse of certain; periods, 'to her ...

An Actor Stricken with Paralysis on the Stage

... Orleans in 1839. He first went on the stage in 1853 as a call boy in the Varieties Theatre, in his native city. The first speaking part he ever played was the Seneschal, in The FIorest of Boady, in the Pelican Theatre, New Orleans. He next appeared in ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FIDELIO AT THE LYCEUM

... that strange, characteristic, and original expression it possessed. Of his talent as a solo player a critic of the period speaks in the following terms :- I am astonished at the almost inexhaustible wealth of ideas, the altogether characteristic style ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2202 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A Strong Cast of The School for Scandal in Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, September 14th, 1858

... blillisnt in draulatie history. Ithas been generally acknowledged by the best critice allnd oeans of this great metropolis, in speaking of LAURtA KEENUS COMdPANY, that no euch treipe of artiacs has been assembled together since the days of the old PARI Theatre ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 884 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture