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MODERN PESSIMISM

... SnluO- but it may prove a serviceable guide to the student and a useful cx'e panion to the inexperienced practitioner. In speaking of the unWgIidO portion of the common law, the author instances the e that a man ?? have but one living wife at the same ...

THE READER

... lake steamer as on the ship about which a passenger has been writing so indignantly to The Times. Over and over again she speaks of the honesty of the Indians; musk rats, strung up as our seasiders do fish, might hang till they rotted off before any ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3416 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... under- linen, all marked with your initials in cypher surmounted by an angelic little coronet. Well, I can't trust myself to speak of it in vulgar prose. The Castelrosso herself, at all events, has none more exquisite. The one thing that has grieved me is ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5865 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... whole line, not with any startling energy, it should be said, but still, for a wonder, I have at last a brace of new pieces to speak about, and theatrical cafes are nightly pretty well filled by their patrons in ordinary-sufficient signs that the 1st of September ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1698 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION

... in hooking it out of that interesting Eden ? I FORsGOT to speak last week of Prince Leopold, Heaven shield his innocent pedantic head, and make his Greek accents right the next time' he speaks of them! Prince L. wrote to Mr. Waikin Williams, M.P., saying ...

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... altera- tions, the piece exhibiting not a little ]bright and original work. Our dentflessen Friends is a comedy with no Plot to speak of 'but which interests by its humorous characters andl their developm~ent. Rise theme of the piece is found in that e5~er ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2071 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... many times without weariness. Miss Lee is well supported, espe- cially by Miss Rose Lloyd, who as Hortense, the French maid, speaks with such a capital accent that it is difficult to believe her to be of English origin. Aliss C. Steele is excellent as Mrs ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4110 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A PICTURE OF A FRENCH PROVINCE

... the poetry embodied it, French national history has not been put before them. The result is a very disastrous one, morally speaking-the police reports and criminal trials Leirg sought with avidity by way of excitement. Doubtless the foundatiofl of village ...

The United Methodist Free Churches and Early Closing Movement.—(To the Editor the Daily News.) —Sir, —It is ..

... establishments at seasonable hour: whilst in their pulpit ministrations and pastoral visitations, our ministers may sometimes speak a word which would do much to attain the worthy objects sought by the Early Closing Association, pp. 169, 170.—Believe me ...

THE TENTH EARL

... average authoress. Thus, he seems to be under the impression that election petitions are tried by the Court of Appeal. He speaks of a distant part of England where Blankshire writs did not run, and where the process of backing a warrant was apparently ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... one standard, whereby to measure everything, was its pleasantness, or otherwise, to himself. Even in the letters in which he speaks of the deaths of his two wives, though his grief is beyond doubt sincere, it is curious to see how very little is to be learnt ...

LITERATURE

... a capital little oublication of its Ikind; Mrs. Leach's Practscal F7amily D} esssiatser, a clheapmagazine, of which ladies speak well ; Weldoo's Illustrated Dressmsakeer; the apparently unimpleachable Palet; Myra's mar- vellous manual of dress and needlework ...