... Aida is underlined for the opening. Mdlle. Teresina Singer is the prima donna-her first appearance in New York, and if report speaks truly, she is a Singer by name and nature. A NEw American comedy entitled The Professor was brought out for the first time ...

... Mlessrs Rilley and Ben Fielding, the fore and hind legs of the sagacious brute, and we fervently hope, during their I In, to speak most improperly, that neither great intestine Roscius of his day may emulate the example of Mr flaw, so graphically recited ...

... lapse of years there is little or nothing in it that appears old-fashioned, the fact that the comedy retains its freshness speaking volumes for the author's skill and knowledge of man- kind. Last night Mr and Mrs Bancroft made their reappear- ance respectively ...

... as- smrance of my desire top premate an important change of the law in the direction of your wishes. Where the reso- lution speaks of the application of it as a test ques- tion, I feel confident this is not meant to set aside or disparage the duty of voting ...

... malede one of the greatest powers for good iui the nation. lie concluded by ineniloning thlat he ititeisded next month to speak oei the samie subject in Edinburgh wheis Pro- fessor Bachik was to be in the chair. A Filthy Patron of the Drana. Ott oue or ...

... ready to give indulgence to amateurs of this kind, while the little blunders and absurdities help to make fun and amusement. Speaking of the talents required for acting, some shrewd observations are made by the writers. After commenting upon the rarity of ...

... which it treats. Though the earlier papers are not brought up to the facts of the day in all respects, and Captain Colomb speaks throughout too much as if he were the discoverer of truths which have really been for a long time common pro- perty, there ...

... acceptable to his contemp.oraries as are the innocent huniours of Mr. Du Maurier to ourselves. His were the days of plain speaking and the broadest jests imaginable. The follies and affectations that ran rife in them had nothing in common with our own ...

... said they would do, not one had been accomplished, this had coat the country something like thirty millions of moucy, not to speak the flood that had ber-n shed. Their whole policy had been undignified one, and would seem to have been impelled some absurd ...

... witnessed in some parts of England still, but Pope did his utmost to suppress it. The compiler of this volume, by the way, speaks in favour of artificial ruins, and would perhaps agree with Gilpin that a dead tree placed here and there in a landscape would ...

... his elder brother which is signed Your loving, hoping, poverty- stricken-once more poverty stricken-brother, Franz. It speaks of eight long hours of hunger that had to be passed between a poor dinner and a meagre supper; and about three years before ...

... always glad to have her irrepressible spirits as a relief to the sombre tint of Place Mark, Mark's wife, and Vyvyan himself. Speaking of the time when they also were in Cornwall, she says: We were quite little in those days. Bab had chubby legs. Don't blush ...