MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... orchestra is so ilimited that, a performer may be excused for selecting such a composition as this, wh~ich is not, properly speaking, a concerto at all. It has been once before heard in London at a Richter ~concert two or thee years since. Herr Kiengel is ...

A BOOKMAKER'S BLUNDERS.*

... phrase that continuous work might be uninterrupted is a gross tautology. In the very first line of Mr. Molloy's preface he speaks of the playhouses which obtained under the Restoration, a piece of compound bad English in which incorrectness is heightened ...

THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES

... equsiIY iiec, though nuder the one Crown. SirRuather- dlii forij Atcack is as entitled, from knowledge of the hi Ouestion, to speak Of France, China, and the Fmr Vatican, as is Mr. Dillon of Ireland ; and it is not on Jurprisitig to lind hinm inuclied to ...

THE BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION

... be closed. The committee had asked him to be there that evening for the purpose of saying a few parting words. He was not speaking his own sentiments only, but the sentiments of those present, as wellas of the whole community of Birmingham, when he said ...

THE ENGLISH FAT STOCK SHOWS

... entries there will be a very creditable rep esentation of the polled breed from the Nortr of Scotland at Smithfield. Generally speaking, indeed, there should be I a specially fine display of the breed so intimately associated with this part of the 'country ...

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... original and home-grown drama as Sir Charles Young's Jim the Penman. This remarkable and interesting play, which, if report speaks truly, went for some time begging among London msasagers, was ten- tatively produced at an afternoon performance in the spring ...

A BALLAD OF BURLESQUES

... Makes them clutch their breasts and pant, While their eyes, like lighthouse lamp, Shoot a sudden glance aslant ? Hark ! They speak-strange accents come, Murmuring in a monotone- Mixture of a muffled drum And a faint asthmatic groan: Praises to one man ...

THE DUBLIN SOCIETY'S MUSICAL RECITALS

... pianootcte and the violoncello. The tone of the old harpsihhord-as the notes iniormnepd thle audience-wsm a sort of musical speaking through the uose. All the more honour to( gian; Bach for the wonderful music he left for that instrument, and which ve venture ...

Theatrical Mems

... tragedian, ll ar ilival either for the former part or that a of Baulrric an-nei'ther of which he will be prepared a toarclt-ii speakin~g of the illness of ?? Rose b Murray.for it ays- Tanks to Mr Barry Snllivan, M' she is yae fqV ji~g w ;vithout being obliged ...

THE OPENING OF THE LEINSTER HALL

... :~ Lpti WAth her Abt ?? came to the worst she codd talo to the siege (laughter). He was very unexpectedly called upon to speak. and he was very sorry for it, and he 6*a. Hre that everybody present shared the sorrowv with him, now that they hard listened ...

ITALIAN OPERA AT THE THEATREROYAL

... various reasons might be assigned, bat it is sufficiently explained by the existence of a great counter-attraction elsewhere. Speaking from the experience of the past two nights, however, 3we may venture to assure amateurs that. in tabsenting themselves from ...

LITERATURE

... modest view of its interests and responsi. I bilties. This plan enables him to gauge very accarately thle opinion of those who speak in public or who wrote in 1 newspapers. Of course, he is obliged to leave out of saccount the exceedingly important mass of ...