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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

... for all the year round, So far as finish is concerned the engravings rank for I the most part with the best of those which American periodical literature has now made so familiar to readers in tld coontry, and in which till lately our friends across the ...

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 ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... Spencer's reply to the Ca toast of his health was a. criticism of the! individual characteristics of Americans. The bur- on den of his speech was that with Americans work is CIlG a passion, and even deaths from overwork are not .cir infrequent. Their hair is ...

ENTERTAINMENTS

... Except as regards its title there is little to differentiate it from niiny of its class. The book is by Mr J. W. Herbert, the American librettist, but the piece owes more to his collaborator, Mr Edward Jones, who has provided the music. . Indeed, the plot ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... 30, the last night of c Mr irving's season. Charles L and The e Bell*'& Stratagem will be eliminated from the e new American repertory, and vill be replaced 1 by ' Richelieu and Eugene Aram. ri Mr Irving has resolved to play Twelfth Er Night ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... being interrupted by nightfall, the second subject, also of a decidedly Scottish character, is felicitously in. troduced. A minstrel is supposed lo be singing by the camp fire, but day dawns. Scobs wiva hae once more calls the Scots to battle, and the ...

THE THEATRES

... admirably da mounted. The programme will be changed to. rnv wards the end of the week. j by _ 1;is 'PRINCESS'S THEATRE. An American drama entitled The White Slave -was produced for the first time in Glas- gowx at the SGuth-Side Theatre last night. Though ...

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... highly entertaining Devilkhoof, and Mr F. Wade quite distinguished himself as Florestein. This week Mr Charles Harrington's American combination, in the musical and operatic adaptation from Uncle Tom's Cabin, will occupy the boards. f PERFORMANCE OF THE ...

THE THEATRES

... artistes entitled Baclemof a aS ?? Thlere WaS a largec audience fast c night. a _ . ?? MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS. I The Moore and Burgess Minstrels, at present performing in. Hengler's Circus, entered last ,night on their last iveek- The visit of the ...

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION

... valueless begins to be eschewed. The Indian Wigwam, the conception of some far-seeing Yankee, who has placed it for the sale of American drinks, gin-slings and sherry cobblers, like a very spider's web in the shadits t spot of the grounds, having beguiled you ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... and will create the chief part in the Anglo-American piece ' Lost, Stolen, or Strayed at the Duke of York's Theatre. The production is expected on or about May 1. AI. Jean de Reszke finished his American engagement yesterday, and within a week wvill ...