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... him to lay it aside, and it is now offered to us by his daughter, who has added some few of the chapters herself. Strictly speaking it is not a novel, for there is hardly a pretence of a story in it, but a collection of ?? Flitter, Dr. Wilkins, Colonel ...

THEATRES

... acting is in other respects not unsatisfactory. Mis Lydia Cowell, who represents Mignon, is a pretty and graceful actress, who speaks her words with refined feeling and true tender- ness, and seems to want only a little more confidence and power of colouring ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... progress. Indeed it appears at first sight rather to belong to the latter than to the Prin- ciples of Morality. Mr. Spencer speaks here rather of the development of the moral feelings than of their objec- tive rationality. And careful students of evolution ...

MUSIC

... even greater treat than usual. Altogether the concert was the most enjoyable we have yet had this season, and, artistically speaking, the most useful. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. FOR the sixth time in London a series of representa- tions of opera in English ...

MUSIC

... who has already earned distinction as a member of Mr. Mapieson's Italian company. About the others it will be time enough to speak when they successively appear. Every amateur will be glad to welcome again the charming Miss Julia Gaylord, who is making such ...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

... idiom, which, in spite of the editor's patriotic pleading, Allan Ramsay distinctly treats as a dialect. For Sir William Worthy speaks as pure English as the bard could command; and the same idiom prevails in an interesting prologue probably written by the ...

LONDON. SATURDAY, JAN. 10

... appears by the gaol books that therw are at present only forty male and six female piisoners for trial. Ine offences, generally speaking, are not of a very heinous character. The calendar contains only one charge of wilful murder, and this is case of -Lewis ...

Magazines

... intricate for any outline of it we could attempt. We will but add here that Mr. Mallock now tells the Positivists that when they speak of virtue and morality they mean, and can only mean, some form of happiness, of pleasure, and how is it to be decided ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... most contemptible and degraded of beings, whom no man ought to touch, unless with a pair of tongs. One' day, while he was speaking with great freedom of abuse of Mr. Webster, then a member of the house, a senator Informed himn in en under-tone that Mrs ...

TWELFTH NIGHT AT DRURY-LANE

... Madame Vestris, who had just opened the Olympic Theatre, and the probability of such an experiment being ever repeated as a speaking Pantomime-the first on record-of Hrarlequin Pat and Harleqin Bat, then being played at Covent-garden, with Tyrone Power as ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3160 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

`LALLA ROOKH AT THE PHILHARMONIC

... Lalla Rookh, is in every way a delightful actress. Her appearance is attractive, her acting is brisk and graceful, and she speaks musically and sings sparklingly. Miss Emily Randall, who impersonates the Troubadour Feramorz, with whom Lalla Rookh falls ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... manifest abilities, I believe he has the stuff in him to enact the role of a modern Cervantes, and by purging the English- speaking Stage, confer upon the British and American Drama a lasting and inestimable blessing. MESSRS GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, it is ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3342 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture