THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... Tm-nt new military spectacle, by AMll. Erckmann- Chatrian, which the Chatelet has produced as a drama, is not, strictly speaking, a piece at all, but merely a series of episodes, rather loosely tacked together, con- nected with Massina's capaign in ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4326 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... may have been very charming once, and no doubt the remembrance of her former charms is what makes bald-headed old men still speak of her as divine. But I am neither old nor bald- headed, nor can I dwell upon my theatrical reminiscences of twenty or thirty ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1507 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... department of pantomime. These entertainments flourish, however, in the suburbs in even more than their wonted luxuriance. Report speaks highly of Robinson Crusoe at the SURREY, Daddy Long Legs at the BRITANNIA, Whittingtonz and His Cat at the NATIONAL STANDARD ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2404 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... considerable value to all who have the desire and the leisure to examine the paintings in their proper sequence. Broadly speaking, Millais's works may be divided into three periods-(l) The pre-Raphae- lite period, extending from 1849 (for the few pictures ...

A NEW COUNTY HISTORY.*

... sibly led on to doubt the justice or at least the solidity of Miss Har- rison's comparison between Phidias and Praxiteles. We speak with all due diffidence, but is it certain that, if the famous chryselephantine statues of Phidias had been preserved, they ...

THE READER

... by AMr. V~illiam Martin Conway, Roscoe Professor of Art, University College, Liverpool. It is pleasant, too, to be able to speak highly of this work also. Mr. Conway is doubtless versed in the technicalities of his branch of study, but he does not attempt ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1835 | Page: 24 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

... express the views of the College, and to reprimand him accord- ingly. In the course of the reprimand the President said:- Speaking generally, and without regard to this special case, or to cases involving medico legal questions before, or about to come ...

WORKMEN AND MUSEUMS

... waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it . . . for love is strong as 4 tdeath; and thestory of Egypti ove, speak- ring to us rom the tombtughtherthlld oty, has a weird lesson for usal The Egyptian childwas taught that this life is-not all ...

THE ROSA OPERA SEASON

... TO E=3DI:RS-OXTr E LrVEatmOOn Xncunr. Gentlemen,-Mfay I ask the favour of your in- sertion of bthe followinz letter, which speaks [for ?? faithfully, WVM GrusEwoon, Secretarv. I Liverpool Central Relief and Charity Orguanisa- tion Society, Imperial-buildings ...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY WINTER EXHIBITION

... and it would be well worth the expenditure of some trouble if next year the authorities would so hang the drawings. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the period of work illustrated by those now exhibited ranges from the beginning of the century down ...

AN ORGAN GRINDERS' FESTIVAL

... lustrous dark eyes, hearing long names, Christian and surnames, with all the liquid and vowel pronunciation of 'Tuscany, speaking to each other in Eufglish, with a very marked Duklin accent. These are the descendants of eome of the older inhabitants of ...

CHURCH REFORM

... doing, and banish the apathy which nas come over the Liberals of this great city. Let us once more have a chairmnan wvho can speak as ch'airmuu of the Liberals, an~d not of a division. Let us have a union of the Radicals and Viberals, and so keep the banner ...