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ETHEREDGE AND WYCHERLEY

... highly-coloured portrait of Wycherley, putting in the half lights, soto speak, in a series offootnotes. He even contests, in two special instances, Macaulay's assertion that the poet speaks out of the mouths of all his dunces and coxcombs, andmakes them describe ...

THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION,

... tonsive International Exhibitions the world has 1 seen, the buildings alone occupying thirty-two v acres of ground, not to speak of the ornamental si gardens, water, and separate pavilions within U ithe huge rectangular space given over to the a Exhibition ...

OPENING OF THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION

... attempting the novel ex- the per uent of electing one man President by rrunnig another as a candidate. The Trib.une not hbitally speaks of Mr. Blaine as the foremost ousliving Aericau sttesan. The other Blaine 'elre journals declare that if General Harrison ...

A PASTORAL UNDER DIFFICULTIES

... but, on the other hand, Mr Calvert might have copied some of mine, especially in his introduced character of Lord Jones, who speaks the same language and introduces the same business as my Baron Von Guiesbach. Knowing that you are always ready to give fair ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1396 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

... and of Mr Robert Pateman and Mr Harry Dana as Jean de Lussac and Count Paul de Renal respectively it would be difficult to speak too higbly. Mr G. Godfrey bas a somewhat subordinate part as Captain Land, but does it full justice. The mounting of the piece ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNCLE JOSH. At th

... have a powerful and healthy tonic in the very simplicity of the construction of Uncle Josh. As regards plot, there is none to speak of. The drama, if such it may be called, follows much on the same lines as My Sweetheart, Hans the Boatman, and others of that ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNCLE JOSH

... powerful and healthy tonic in the very simplicity t of tire construction of Uncle Josh. As regards plot, I c there is none to speak of. The drama, if suchi it may q be called, follows much on the same lines as My Sweet- ' , /ranrt, Hains the Boatemean, an)d ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... has studied their every utterance, and with remarkable fidelity he reproduces not only their language but their method of speaking it. His comic cries are comic in something niore than in name-cats, dogs, pigs, cows, ducks, geese, horses, asses, pigeons ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2879 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... square yesterday afternoon. There was no attempt at demonstration, and only about a dozen policemen were present, in case any speaking was attempted. Mr. W. Saunders was much happier at Mrs. Saunders' `At home garden-party in his grpunds at Streatham, to ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... majority of globe i trotters. And we must candidly admit he t las, apparently, turned these opportunities to good account. Speaking of the conversion and civilization of the untutored savage, the author asks whether, with all his canni- I balism and savagery ...

THE STORY OF AN IRISH ESTATE

... Chambers. ?? This Mir. Chaisbers himnself corroborates. And pen here is a; third case of mnistak~es idelntity. hlr. N Rtussell speaks of a fainter's wrife who wvent en und her knees to ourse the police, and who declaredro that her humsbaind would wvillingly ...

NEW BOOKS

... lady who writes under the pseudonym of John Law is specially well qualified--through prolonged personal investigations-to speak of life in the East-end of London. She is able to tell us in very truth how thepoor live, and it is this undeniable stamp of ...