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LITERATURE, ART, &c

... Education Division were cleared out. this week. Whilst the space is free a concert is to be given in it by the Wandering Minstrels, for the benefit of the West London School of Art; it will take place on the 18th of July. Messrs. Longman and Co. have published ...

Literature

... with the American expedition to Japan an amusing inci- dent is related, proving that 'however sharp .our Yan- kee cousins may be in' mon'ey' matters, they found much more than their 'match in the Japanese. It' seems that in China the American dollar 'isworth ...

ADELPHI THEATRE

... conclulies with a correct and well executed represen- 0 tation of ?? monument sbout to be erected in me- T e mory of Scolia's Minstrel. The whole was rap- turously applauded, andI on its termination the cheering of'a crowded and fashionable audience did 1 ...

Literary Notices

... many hundred thousands ; and if we pass north of the equa- tor, and comprehend in our survey the Sandwich Islands, where American missionaries have won so rich a crown, and Now Zealand, where the Church Mission- I ary Society has been the chief labourer ...

Literature

... 5 very readable paper on trout, sea-birds, and north- t it country natives; An Overland Mail Adventure, a d and ?? The American Questions. a b TAIT. Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox. July 1856. il _IT'IE current number of Tait, if not so distinguished ...

EXTRACTS FROM ROKEBY, A POEM, BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ

... steps restrain, Together they explored the page Of glosing bard or gifted sage, Oft, placed the evening'fire beside, The minstrel art altercate tried, While gladsome harp and lively lay Bide winter-night flit 'fast away: 'T'hus from their childhood blending ...

LITERATURE

... vourable view of the talents and acquirements of the Prince, and leads to the folnd anticipation that the fame of our royal minstrels, Alfred the Great and Richard Cceur de Lion, will soon be far ex- ceeded by the youthful and accomplished husband of our ...

GREAT LIBERALITY TO LITERARY INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA

... the-other from Boston. . . Chicago Theological Seminary has received $50,000,' Protestant College in Syria $103,000 from American Christians. Lafayette College, Pa., $35,000. Oar cotemporaty, and nobody can' blame it, ges on to say Take notice, Englishmen ...

Literary Notices

... ourown w~rld-renowned d nelodies, and the choicest of Moore's Irish gens, thoea exquisite American part pieces surg wth oach impressive effect by the Christy'l minstrele. In the third plaoe,.t;e songs laveo been almost entirely rearrangek' bu'detr the' judi' ...