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LITERATURE

... disrase cannot be cured by reading. TlieJanuary number of theeslgazisne of As tisgood, 'oilugh not, perhanq, artistically speaking,quite upto !fs usual level. 'the frontispiece is from Thomas .oran's Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado. It Is effective ...

SHAIRP'S LECTURES ON POETRY.*

... utters comes not from a special faculty, but from his total self; his speech is the declaration of his inward life; and he speaks of poetry because poetry has nourished his deepest thoughts and feelings, bringing down living water from some high a&ial ...

THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS

... PALL MALL GAZETTE), Will be REDUCED from SIXPENCE to THREE PENCE, and issued in a Coloured Wrapper, stitched. The SPECTATOR, speaking of the PALL MALL GAZETTE, says.-- It has been made under its present management dislindt-ly the most readable paper in England ...

FREAKS OF FASHION

... to the world I lat heads, round heads, narrow heads, heads with no back to them worth mentioning, I others with no top to speak of, heads on which the bump of benevolence appears I as a depression instead of an elevation, as I though it had taken effect ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HAL

... lalies are seen standing in a row like wax figures. Winkles humorously describes the figures, and tbe girls cause great fun by speaking and moving out of their places while they are having a rehearsal. This being concluded, Peter and Anastasia come to see the ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6229 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... noticeable fact is that authors' interests are less con- sidered in the United States than in any other civilized country (we speak of native authors), and that the English law is less favourable to them than the law of any other European country. Our Captain ...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... compositions, such as 'Time, Death, and Judgment, Life's Illusions, or Time and Oblivion, but it would be difficult to speak too highly of the great artistic power they display. The large picture, Love and Death, which appeared here a few years ago ...

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... decidedly to her own disadvantage. This exacting actress has been by no means satisfied with her Russian expedition, and in speaking of the Russians to a friend the other day, she somewhat contemptu- ously remarked that their enthusiasm was of the same ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2045 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MADAME PATTI IN A FIX

... certain that it has only to be rightly considered by the profession at large te succeed. Ling Look is a Chinaman, unable to speak our langusge, and at present in a fearful state of mental prostration; as also his wife, whose grief at the grave of the deceased ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1115 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... with great success in the provinces, in America, and in Australia, was presented for the first time to a London audience. In speaking of the original production of this piece in April last at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Liverpool, we remarked that there ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5059 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... Jenkins by Mr. David James, who fortunately for visitors to the Lyceum has now joined the company, there is now little need to speak. The Two Roses, Ida and Lottie, are very gracefully represented by Miss Helen Matthews and Miss Winifred Emery ; and Mr. ...

THE READER

... of inconsequence and misunderstanding we have met with for years. We confess that this incontinent prolific variety-not to speak of the ?? grammar-has proved too much for us, and we lay down the book (which, not so oddly as may appear, is bound in the ...