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... g;- _ 1 THE BANGOR EISTEDDFOD.-- The National Eisteddfod of Wales, which this year is held at Bangor, opened on Tuesday, and will be continued till Friday. The arrangements are almost iden tical with ...
... g;- _ 1 THE BANGOR EISTEDDFOD.-- The National Eisteddfod of Wales, which this year is held at Bangor, opened on Tuesday, and will be continued till Friday. The arrangements are almost iden tical with ...
... MR. HENRY ARTHUR JONES'S new and original comedy, which was brought out at a special matinee at the SHAFTESBURY Theatre last week, is understood to be an early work of the author which has lain by in ...
... inwwww/ cMusie) l'A s.u\ v. V ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The principal revival of the past week has been Gluck's Orfeo, which had not previously been heard in London since Madame Czillag and Madame Peuco ...
... A LOST ILLUSION, by Leslie Keith (3 vols.: Methuen and Co.), is a really pathetic story, full of human nature; and it has, moreover, a special value, inasmuch as it largely deals with Quaker life as ...
... POSSESSION, a new musical sketch by Mr. Walter Browne and Mr. Alfred Caldicott, was pro duced about a month ago at Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's Entertainment, ST. GEORGE'S HALL, in the place ...
... MIRIAM'S SCHOOLING, which gives a title to a volume con taining the story of that name and Other Papers; by Mark Rutherford; edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott (I vol.: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co.), is, in character, a sort of tract; and, if all tracts were half as ably written, and as interesting to read, their success would bear much more proportion than at present to the ...
... I J^lusic) GILBERT AND CELLIER'S NEW OPERA THE MOUNTEBANKS which, after more than one postpone ment caused by the illness and subsequent death of its composer, was produced at the Lyric Theatre on M ...
... CAPTAIN THÉRÈSE.-- M. Planquette's new comic opera, the libretto by Messrs. Bisson and Burnand, entitled Captain Thérèse, was produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre on Monday night, with a fair m ...
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... IIANDFASTED MESSRS. A. CHARLES BICKLEY AND GEORGE S. CURRYER have written a very silly preface to a very good novel. Handfasted (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) is a story of Wessex, and particularly of W ...
... LINDA GREY AT THE PRINCESS'S MRS. LANGTRY'S bold adventure in the domain of melodrama has not been attended with the happy results which would be desired by the friends of that clever and fascinating ...
... BarNUM'S Show will be carried on, notwithstanding the death of its originator, as 700,000/. are invested in the enterprise. A grandson inherits most of the famous showman's fortune, provi sion being m ...