ON FOOT IN SPAIN.*

... as he went his way he relieved himself by strong language. Like I.crd Bateman's mother-in-law, he had never been heard to speak so free, and his Spanish dog, Juan, was so impressed by the force ot the English expletives that he tucked his tail between ...

YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION EXHIBITION

... they could not doubt Ms that it would be the means of general good, and an Al t encouragemeut to the members of the Union. Speaking Ri of the value of these societies, he said that each must have th Its own work, namely, to work up the natural history m ...

FINE ARTS

... that the depreciation of the work of the present in any way enhances the value of that of the past. The men of whom we are speaking laboured loyally and energetically; they were many of them not without honour in their own day, while assuredly they are ...

ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE

... auithor Is AerniEsion to ruhlish in Germany a tranalation..of Mr. v Serjesut CoX treatise on The-Art- of Writing, Reading, and Speaking, for educational Ise 'in that D. country'., 8, The forthcoming Volume XL of the Records of the h rest is the last of the ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... the onjm and placid face, Wllere smiles were flittina to aud fro Where sudden lights and shadosws'fl Children,.step ?? and speak low, And softly spread the leecy sh:wl; Eer dreauness soul mnayhap ,li, ?? Soene fairer Christmas in ite sic . Then quickly ...

THE COVENT-GARDEN PROCESSION

... and double- winged staircase. The entrance is made from the vast door- way under the gallery, so that every company, so to speak, of beauty marches down the centre of tise stage before it is broken into files and is lost in the dazzling distance. The variety ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1007 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... humane, cordial or high-minded, better educated gentlemen, I never met (sic), It will not be supposed, therefore, that when I speak of Disraeli as the descendant of a Jew I mean to tarnish him on that account. They vere once the chosee people of God. There ...

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... success at Niblo's Garden, and is to be withdrawn after to-morrow night. Imagine a play in five acts and with thirty- seven speaking characters, all of them with more or less to do, and you can readily understand how, in the present day, when tersenes and ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1659 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MISSION OF THE STAGE

... the face ; there must be a heart and soul seithin, or surely,. for all the nobler attributes of his Art, the dramatist will speak with wasted breath, and the actor be bht a hollow echo of an empty sound. As Carlyle said of Byron and Burns we may say of ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MRS. CARDIGAN.*

... anything at all, in fact, to keep them from scampering through the pages until they have run into Mrs. Cardigan's secret, or, to speak more correctly, into the writer's own secret, which is concealed for a while f from Mrs. Cardigan herself. A keen-scented reader ...

THE OLD MASTERS AT THE ACADEMY

... to- the value of the title. The latter advantage also may to some extent be- claimed for Gainsborough's boy. He is strictly speaking red and white rather than pink; but besides this there is really little to recommend him. He is a languid youth in a fancy ...

Poetry

... call, to orash on the I * rocky shore. , L ltut rough or smooth, In shado or shine, the face of the mighty F muacl a Ca t speak of little elso to me, but memory, fear, or pain. 1Father and husband, and bold bright boy, it has taken them a ?? by one, a ...