... model. Few would have had the inclination to attempt a picture by lamp-light, voting such a thing an impossibility; but the amateur rushes in where the professional would fear to tread, and it is certain that to this boldness of attack many good pictures ...

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... younger branches of the family. Let us get up amateur theatricals, suggested Cousin Bertie. The very thing, exclaimed Amy, clapping her hands. Oh, you dear, clever boy to think of it ! Amateur theatricals I echoed Emily, breaking off in the ...

... Painted by J. Russell, R.A., at the special request of his friend and pupil, P. W. Tomkins, and now at the Exhibition of Amateur Art at the ImperIal Institute. The owner of the painting is now Mr. J. Tomkines, and our reproduction is from a photograph ...

... fierce. light of the profession. But amateur acting is perhaps best as an art in itself;.and professionalism, other than that which grows out of it, is apt to spoil the spirit in which it is undertaken. The amateur stage has, of course, given to the public ...

... East, Mr. Leslie Thompson, Mr. J. E. Grace, and Mr. Anderson Hague, are included in the collection. TnrE AMATEUR PHoroGRAPic ExilATttItoN. - Amateur lphotography has now become such a favourite and fashionable pursuit, that its votaries are to be found ...

... for the best prose work of fiction submitted by a competing amateur author, the manuscript not to be less thai' 300 printed pages of thirty lines to a page and ten words to a line. An amateur author is defined as not imak- ing a livelihood by literature ...

... supplement containing some of the prize pictures and a selection f om the others sent in at the recent Urap/tic competition for amateur photographers. There are two pictures here which illus rate the great difficulty under N hich a photographer lal ours when ...

... dramatic satire on the a sthetic craze known as 'Yze Colonel. Greek stories and scenes appear to be just now much in favour ?? amateurs. On Monday afternoon next Mr. Todhunter's Ifelena in Trons will be performed at HENGLER'S Cirque, Argyle Street, converted ...

... band were amateurs, among them twenty-five ladies, including Lady Kemball, the lion. Agatha Jolliffe, and Lady Florence B. Wilbraham. Mr. Boord, M.P. for Greenwich. was among the violoncellos. The chorus, somewhat weak in tenors, were all amateurs. Two sons ...

... latter, the undertaking must slowly and surely collapse. Where none but amateurs exhibit their talents there can be little objection, because where only amateurs exhibit, only amateurs equally desirous of exhibiting would be likely to attend the performances ...

... Nlalva, are of average merit, although lacking in originality.- Six New Duets for Violin and Piano, composed specially for amateurs, by Angelo Costa, will find a ready welcome from that numerous class who prefer tuneful to scientific music. They are styled ...