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THEATRES

... utterance, his habit of gi% iiog to some syllable, of no discernible special importance, an extraordlltarY emphasis, or of speaking some particular word with a caprittS modulation, has even grown with time. Nothing short of Itli a dozen repetitions of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1055 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... satire at the expense of actual types, and even persons. Of the original, with its brilliant cruelty, it is late in the day to speak. Of the translation, however, under the title of One of the Forty (I vol. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), it must be said that ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 963 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TENTS OF SHEM

... supplied with the electric light, a hydraulic lift, hot water laid on, and all the latest modern improvements-metaphorically speaking, he hastened to add by an afterthought, for he saw his companion's large grey eyes opening wider and wider with astonishment ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5436 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... understand English, so we spoke through an interpreter. She spoke gravely, I thought nervously, as if unaccustomed to such public speaking. She said she was gratified to receive a visitor of such distinction as the Duke of Sutherland. We backed out in proper form ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2001 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... has much of pathos and wit in it, while this verse, taken from a poem To Our Lady (for a picture by Giovanni Bellini), speaks for itself:- Though what I dream, and what I do, In prayer's despite are always two; Light me, dsrough maze of deeds undone ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TENTS OF SHEM

... low voice, No Kabyle ever spoke to a woman like that. They don't know how. It's not in their language. But Yusuf used to speak to me often that way. And lie loved my mother, and was, oh, so kind to her, till the day she died. I think you English, infidels ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6239 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... seen in this part in town; and Miss Eastlake's Ophelia is not less sweet and pathetic than before. The company, however, speaking generally, do not greatly distinguish themselves in Shakespearian parts, though we must except Mr. G. Barrett's First Gravedigger ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... absurd Abvssinian War; and, though full of thoughtless glee at the action of the terrible Sniders on the ha1f- armed foe, he speaks with well-deserved disgust of the way in which Theodore's dead body was stripped by a rush of fiends, vultures, dressed like ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2419 | Page: 25 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TENTS OF SHEM

... to Yamina, her closest intimates. How handsome he looked, in his rough tourist suit, that delicate young painter with the speaking eyes, beside Ahmed, her betrothed, in his dirty burnouse and his lagged under- shirt! How beautifully he talked, and how ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5414 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... his speeches were egotistic. Lady Domville leaves his poetry, of which she gives a few apposite extracts here and there, to speak for itself. For his behaviour during the trying crisis of 1848, she trusts chiefly to the testimony of Lord Norman by-an eve ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2354 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TENTS OF SHEM

... calibre and metal of Harold Knyvett- Uncle ! Iris cried, firing up, you've no right to Frejudge him You've no right to speak so of any of my relations ! You've no right to call my cousin a scoundrel. * Exactly so, my dear, the old man went on, idt ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4996 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... from the bills of the 1 \M ARKET, and The Merry ll'h'es of Ilindsor has taken its place. WC '1ve alteady had occasion to speak of this revival, and to note thel ire and pais bestowsed upon it. In point of scenic illustration I ?? atllething mole than ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1232 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture