LITERARY ARRIVALS

... exception of William Makopeace a Thaokoray-George Dawson -vas the most brilliant S talker who ever visited their shores. It is nearly a c dozen years, so rapid is the flight of timo, since George I :Dawson leaned over the lecturer's desk to buttoe ...

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... attended by the chairman and principal members of the Orchestral Committee. r ?? 1. E BUST or Moie DAWSON.-The newiy.executed bust of 2. the late George Dawson, by Mir, F. J. Williamson, of 4: Esher, Surrey (the sculptor of the Pricestley statue and of 5 ...

EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOURS AT CARDIFF

... Robert Mills, £5,000 ; iris brother-in-law, George Dawson, the other executor, £500; Chias. Archbr, Emily Coleman, and Annie Dawson, each £2,000; irls uncle, Albert Archer, £500; his friend Alex- ander Dawson Hogg, fS00 ; Iris valet, William - Bartholomew ...

FLOWER SHOW AT SMALL HEATH

... hhilstos. Three fuchsias : 1, Charles Sh seell; 2, llr. George Latharn. Six ronato gera. ulius : 1, AIr. George Foster; 2, Mr. 11. Weiss. Plants for table decoratien : 1st, Mr. CharlesShowvell; 2nd, Atr. George Foster. Six ferns (exotic): 15t, Mrs. Marigold: ...

MOTHER-IN-LAW (FRO

... 28th, 1881. *AT a meeting of the Dawson Memorial Committee, held on Tuesday at Birmingham, it was reported that the four sides of the canopy to the statue proposed to be raised to the memory of the late George Dawson would be medallions of Bunyan, Carlyle ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1626 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SOME ESSAYISTS

... on Poetry. By Aubrey de Vere, LL.D. (London: Macmillan and Co. i887.) Shakespeare: and other Lectures. By George Dawson, M.A. Edited by George St. Clair, F.G.S. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 1888.) ,,,Literary Sketches, By II. S. Salt. (London: ...

Extracts from New Books

... is digested, and serves only to feed the vigonr of a most genuinely English mind.- Erglish Writers, by Henry Aforley. GEORGE DAWSON AND AHORtBISH0P WEHSTELY.-Several bishopawho were invitedrefused to meet lUrfDawson, andseut excuses more or less explanatory ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITONS

... extracts, beginning with Richard de Bury, author of the Philobiblon,' and passing through some thirty great names down to George Dawson. But why nothing from F. D. Maurice, whose Friendship of Books ' is as admirable a handling of the subject as could be ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... extracts, beginning with Richard de Bury, author of the Philobiblon,' and passing through some thirty great names down to George Dawson. But why nothing from F. D. Maurice, whose Friendship of Books is as admirable a handling of the subject as could be ...

URBAN CLUB SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

... Drs. Noble Smith, George Bird. S. Lloyd, F. Gervis, Gregson, Greatrex, and A. M. Browne, the Rev. Astley Cooper, and Messrs George Cordwell (hon. treas.) W. E. Church (hon. sec.), A. H. Hance, T. Mead, John Maclean, E. J. Odell, George Temple, John Camp- ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1481 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM

... variety artist George Algie, comedian and dancer * and Alex. Day. HALLtE VARIeT11es -Proprietor and Manager, Mr T. Hall - Mdhlc. Zara, Creole vocalist, is the star here. She is supported by Mr Harry Davies. character comedian; Mr George Dawson, Tyrolean vocalist; ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1889
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Literary and Artistic

... Among Messrs. Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.'s forth- f coming books are a volume of Biographical Lectures, by the late George Dawson * and Dr. Samuel Cox's Exposi- tion and Study of the 6haraoter of Balaam. Tae new volumes of pcetsy to be issued by the ...