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THE GAIETY THEATRE

... fatal to the poor young . actress, who dies in the arms of her lover, in the I very moment when she bears him asking her to be xhis wife. It cannot be said that Mliss Alleyn is equal to all the difficulties of this trying play, in wllich greater artistes have ...

CATTLE SHOW AT GOREY

... falling off in barley was remarkable, but he attributed it to the dis- i astrous weather of last year, which destroyed the I crop and produced fear in the minds of men as to the propriety of trying barley again. There was a general belief that al over the United ...

GAIETY THEATRE

... very remarkable dis- play of ability. The scenery was very good. A good deal has often been said and written about the objectionable system of emphasising sensa- tional situations by slow music, but the last scene I of False Friends was quite spoiled ...

THE AMATEUR ORCHESTRAL UNION

... very slightly curtailed. The ee playing of the band was extremely good and stym- en pathetic. The oening andante was a little try- nd ing as regards the right time and expression; but Il the baud soon warmed to their work and sr- played in such good sty ...

THE DRAMA IN LONDON

... entirely justified. The plot isi certainly very disagreeable, and some of the imci- n dents are ill-considered. Mr. Pinero has a dis- i ir tinct theory-for which, alter all, there is some .0 justification-that the most commonplace facts of 0 life insist on ...

A CORNISH ROMANCE

... your clothpA: it's hardly LI worth while buryibg that good suit of yours; it sr - will do for one of us. I pleaded mny youth, my di I accidental and unpremeditated presence, ny to newly-made wife and only child, and this at last oe seemed to touch the ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR JUNE

... sedentarv life, may, to say the least, be dis- couraged. One naturally asks, Would it not be well if there were more of this physical exercise for girls too ? The free full exercise of the whole buody in youth is surely a good prdventative of niorbid ...

THE SONG OF ROLAND

... ripe ish eulture,utbigoted sympathies, and an exalted tone 3iU of thought; but we think that few even of his in- , is tliate friends will be prepared to findc hipi coming the so very near to Is0 a poet; and a post of high rank, ,oh s he comes in his mod ...

BELMONT FLOWER SHOW

... geraniums. Mr. Uagee, Knock Nursery, sent a very nicO box of trusses of roses. including fins ex.mples of Mareclial Neil, Gloire di Dijon. and nephitos. A magnificent collection of hybrid perpetual and tea roses and cactus dahlias were exhibited by Messrs ...

THE LITERATURE OF 1848

... for- his friend in order to deliver to him his last request on earth; i and when the friend arrives he tells him that whatever a man may do in his old age, to re-I member the dreams of his youth. No*, 1848, in its mends the magiedream of a youth that believed ...

ITALIAN OPERA

... orchestral parts are difficult, and save to a very competent corps impossible of adequate realisation. Last l night no fault could fairly be found with the band, and Signor Arditi, who seems to have gained renewed youth and genius since he received the baton ...

CONCERT AT BELMONT

... treatment, which ilried time use of mninesral vwaters and baths, he obtained no reijef wyhatever. After try- ing all the remedial measures advised by friends, he cenld only move about on crutches, and ex- perienced intense pain. His joints had become badly ...