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THE CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES

... Vokes, as usual, was the admired of all, and no0 better representative of Valentine could possibly have been found. Whether speaking Mr Burnand's lines and giving point to his jokes, or singing his liberally interpolated songs, or engaging in the bustle ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 25206 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINC'IAL THEATRIC

... (Pantaloeni). Mr R. A. a Roberts (llaleqIic, acid Millie. Edmilie (Columbince). Ili nour ccext issue DWe hope cc be able to speak at greater leingth of tics story of thee Paic- - tancims, aod of the icdivcidual interpretation. D QUENc'S, RtOYAL, Tusiir~it5 ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14976 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET

... it in the Rules; Templars, young bloods, and wits. Hence arise drinking and brawling; and as one is outside the law, so to speak, so one is tempted to neglect the law. I say nothing of the temptations of an empty purse. These I felt, with many prickings ...

THEATRES

... realm of Oberon, and King Pippin's Palace, the ballets, picturesque groupings, and processions, arranged by Mr. Cormack-not to speak of the double harlequinade that follows drowning the remembrance of the introductory jokes and fancies in roars of laughter ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... have been well if he had told us whether he has drawn it homr original authorities or from previous historians.) He does not speak with sufficiently strong disgust of Pizarro's detestable falsehood and cruelty. The infamous mockery of the Inca's so-called ...

MUSIC

... calm indifference, not untinged with sarcasm, of his reply to the Secretary for War. It wilhbe remembered that Lord Lytton, speaking recently at a Volunteer gathering at St. James's Hall, eulogised General Roberts' exploits in Afghanistan, and wound up with ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... have been well if he had told us whether he has drawn it from original authorities or from previous historians.) He does not speak with sufficiently strong disgust of Pizarro's detestable falsehood and ,cruelty. The infamous mockery of the Inca's so-called ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... scene in a new year's ball in Asphodel. Violet Wood's Husband contains a warn- ing much after the style of why don't you speak for your- self, John ? There is a very powerful description of a desolate and dangerous Devonshire moor in The Whisper in ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Arts & Popular Culture | Words: 10671 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... correct meanings of many of the words she uses, in spite of the general grandiloquence of her style. It is very difficult to speak of the novel as a whole without seeming to treat it with more harshness than is appropriate to any work of which even the faults ...

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL AT SADLER'S WELLS

... taste that can dispense with the jocular reminder that here we are agaii, ber supporters, perhaps, having a suspicion that, speaking ,esthetically, they would not by any means be the gainers in finding themselves where they were a year or two ago. Thus Boxing ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FOOL'S REVENGE AT THE PRINCESS'S

... gave to those shafts of wit which in the opening act are directed straight by Bertuccio at the friends of his inaster. He speaks viteiol, says some onu. He is bitter, but shrewdly witty, says anothel, and both descriptions were justified in this instance ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2205 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION

... the gown, Hx e said no word, but stood him down, Nor e'er was heard of more.t- w - Soesmeoty, a second-hand poet, I fancy, speaks of hty hlowers of May. I prefer the Flowers of Bow- treet. This is a kind of Flowers awich does not pre- udge a case. AeND ...