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PROVINCIAL THEATRIUA

... to render this production equal to anything of the kind which has preceded it in Bim-kenhend. ODf the acting we Can fairly speak in ternes of commendation all round. Miss Fanny Grayson is the beasu ideal of a Fairy Quceem, aind her vocalisation is of ahigh ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 28019 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MARION FAY: A Novel

... to ascertain the truth. He has been so unreasonable that I hardly know how to speak to him myself. I suppose he tells you ! I rather think his lordship will decline to speak about her ladyship just at present. Of course it is necessary that I should ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7219 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE POETRY OF BYRON.*

... best and strongest work in one body together ? Mr. Arnold thinks that, thus mnutilated-or, as Lord Salisbury would say, in speaking of the Turkish Emipire, consolidated -Byron will have a better chance of L-eing appreciated by this generation. What a ...

Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT

... error which occurred in your last issue. Your correspondent in his criticism of the Queen's Theatre pantomime, Manchester, speaks of me as Julia Watson. It should have been, yours truly, LIZZIE WATSON. Queen's Theatre, Manchester., January 4tb, 1882. TiE ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... tire colonies,. So large was the display that the opening ceremony had to be repeated at ranotuer 1yart of the building. Speaking in the - Lecture hall, the 1Rev. C. HI. Spurmeoes said the object of tire lasaar was to raise 10,0001. They did net expect ...

LITERATURE

... blasts front bell,t It tiw itlitttit seicietiti or sthiritttie, ''ilwt cilt;--t ln itllcli at qtielstiitltsbl shaipe, it I ii speak, to thefe- ,' ali,1i state no so etrftsnliear* ulrnduscttpon i Ini- li'it :c-etIa''ti~ed to Ittal o fisil ?? till.i Oki ...

MEMOIRS OF COUNT MIOT DE MELITO.*

... remarks about worrying the soldiei, ilmposing on them an apprenticeship for which Frenchmen arc uvrl ' and so on, do not speak well for his discretion in military matters. When the Revolution actually broke out, M. Miot lomed the National Guard and became ...

THE MUSICAL WORKS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT

... musical proficiency considerably above the amateur level. It is quite unnecessary, and v would be entirely beside the mark, to speak of v his mausical compositions as ?? did of M' Ltouis XIV.'s verses, as Voltaire did of those to of the Great Frederick;. They ...

New Novels

... in others- mainly consisting in an occasionally ?? use of English words-are so few and so slight that it would be idle to speak of them. It is rare indeed to meet with a novel of such entirely fresh and unflagging interest, and so absolutely free from ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1882
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... and M~dile. lrindean fairly satisfactory as Micheline. M. Maurice Luguet, of whose dtebut at the Dijazet I had occa- sion to speak very favourably a couple of months ago, made a highlysagreeable impression by the manner in which he filled the difficult role ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3299 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.*

... very annoying, and they escape from it by a dciict negation-Mr. Henry James, the typical literary American, even veneurin to speak of Poe's very valueless verses. Such men as Mr. James -k us if wve are sincere in preferring these light tones of music ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... of Mr Paul Martinetti, on whom as clown the heaviest portion of the work of the representation falls, it is impossible to speak too highly. His activity is wonderful and his acting is irresistibly droll. He is well supported by Mr Alfred Martinetti, Miss ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6812 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture