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ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH STAGE

... present while her daughter was being gravely but not unkindly lectured by Mdlle. Arnould, and when the latter had ceased speaking she exclaimed with rapture, Oh, Mademoiselle, why is not my child like you! It is not surprising you are so rich. Many ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... invariable custom of mail-guards, is armed to m the teeth with blunderbusses, pistols, and other pi formidable weapons, nrot to speak of the defensive ol preparations of outside passengers. But that is fi ll a fable. The mail, in faot, in Turpin's time , Itemp ...

PICTURESQUE HOLLAND.*

... complimentary right to their title. But, within certain limits, the scenery is decidedly pretty. There are not many places, speaking from a Dutch point of view, like the village of Rosendaal. Rosendaal was formerly an old manor house. It was a favourite ...

LITERATURE

... place. We do not base our reluctance to fall in with this novel procedure upon the fact that some torts are not, strictly speaking, breaches of universal duties or rights in rein, nor upon the fact that to rights in remi is given in this scheme of codification ...

THE SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART

... mixKture of Bern- shire, Devonshire, Norfolk, and Somersetshire, ased several other counties-a most singular attempt, indeed, to speak with a rustic accent. Ashley Morton wvs pl iyed with consilerable care by Mr G-. Winsborrow. OrCe sio1enLll soein exaggerations ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... each gentleman supplied a hand. Then by one of them we had some very truthful and aninsig incita- tions of the singing and speaking of a little child, their share in the programsme terminating with the well-known Lover and the Bird, arranged as a duet ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3319 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... proplhet,'' istorian of the church, and first conuacillor of the presideut, said to mne, 'The only passage in ?? of Mormon which speake of polygamy coudenmus it, and denounces the judgment of God upon those ?? ?? sit. It was only when Josei.h rmith's wile got ...

THE ALEXANDRA DRAMATIC CLUB

... iniThe Polish Jest. But we must hasten to the denousement. Of coiuse the sailor lover was not lost. He again appears, and speaks in sentimental language of the familiar scenes which, as' he had quitted thenm but a few months, had not had time to become ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RUBINSTEIN'S NEW OPERA

... know that it is capable of it, because we have time and again experienced this result when- ever a hero of our art, so to speak. hafs hut opened his miouth to address ass. The Moccrbees is atn opera entirely writtes to illustrate the grandeursand et ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1088 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... taste, whilst her vocalisation is good and her dancing graceful antd delicate. Miss Stanhope is an excellent Fairy Queen, and speaks the topical lines with point and distinctness. Miss Mary Gritfiths both looks and plays well as Little John, and Miss A. Poole ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 22516 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... halfn-lIst,' ?? song, which was 1ehthnsiastioiy vieeit'eid.- Hei racting, when sheo is Sprecuroned to - be j;iniaible- and speaks for a :parrot, ivii the emnbhimen-#- of saucysiprftiglinese and humour. 'Th'e piece iseapitally oast :roiigb', Mr. George ...

AMUSEMENTS IN ITALY

... been better. This work of Verdi's cannot properly be called a Quartetto, as it has in reality neither the style, strictly speaking, nor the proportions required for composi- tions thus denominated. The ruling phrase in msiniooe is most ingeniously developed; ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture