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... gaugwriy, and with them the boy who, alone of the thirteen hunlrerl people ou board, knew tire deal womtan. One of the men speaks in a low voice of her happier home this morn- ing. Another, a grim Irishman, is of opinion that the coffin is the last home ...

LITERATURE

... London artisans. It is desired that secularists should attend and speak, and 1 shall be glad to have seats kept for any- -reprewntative of secular clubs or other friends who will speak. Adminosson will be quits free to men and women, and the meeting w ...

THE CONTINENTAL GALLERY

... evidently not too well pleased at being the first at the meeting-place, but if there is t0 be fa quarrel, she is quite ready to speak her mind. The open telegram on the grass be- side her seems to suggest that she hasshad to put up with this kind of thing before ...

THE NEW PLAY AT THE HAYMARKET

... go. In the fourth act, the scene very much resembles the play scene in I-Harmilet, Voltaire sitting below the stage and speaking the argument. Before the play begins, however, the unknown son of the Pompadour is brought across the ground, between soldiers ...

THE THEATRES

... cally humorous critiism on Sweet Laoeader, in which he is more than commonly x entertaining upon a qustion of tastN remarks speaking of Dick Phenyl: Not that he ansmuch leabarmstr. Forinstance Pe put on his =9 over his oios igA oei on his cd at the w0bnig ...

THE NEW PLAY AT THE HAYMARKET

... must go. In the fourth act, the scene very much resembles the play scene in Hamlet, Voltaire sitting below the stage and speaking the argument. Before the play begins, however, the unknown son of the Pompadour is brought across the ground, between soldiers ...

NEW BOOKS

... giving it the stiffening and solidity that it lacked under its own kings. And on this work of William no one is entitled to speak wtth more authority than the great historian of the Norman Conquest, Yet we miss fiom these pages the gusto with which Dr. ...

MACKENZIE'S AUSTRAL AFRICA

... volumes bear testimony. One instance of this testimony only may be quoted, which appears at page 197 Of the second volume Speaking of the technical difficulties that stood in the Way of bringing any one to trial for the murder of Mr. Bethell, Mr. Mackenzie ...

SIXTY YEARS A MODEL

... Venus or saint-whether in merely physical or in the higher range of ideal representations-there is ever present something that speaks to the beholder of a purity of soul such as even the most materialistic of artists could not fail in a measure to express ...

THE POETS' CORNER

... pleasant in coming across a poet who cart apostrophize Byron as transcendent star That gems the ifirmament of poesy- and can speak of Longfellow as a mighty Titan. Reckless panegyrics of this kind show a kindly nature and a good heart, and Mr. Mackenzie's ...

THE HAYMARKET

... the fourth and final act, I Eugene having passed on to the threatened doom, the F Voltaire play begins. Narcisso appears and speaks his t lines, discovers in the Pompadour his sweet Janette, I curses her so vigorously that she, with the additional I shock ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 11065 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... be altogether pleasant; this is the budding artist's peculiar line,. however, and he excels in it. There are twenty-seven speaking parts in the cast. LAST night a new three-act vaudeville by M. Vala. brbgue, entitled Doit et Avoir, was produced at the ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2870 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture