... the taste for pure music among the working classes, and extend- ing the operations of the society. The Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels have pro- mised to assist at a concert in aid of the funds of the Royal School for daughters of officers of the ...

... destroyed by the arrival of an American relative, Miss Lavinia Jackson, whose wealth attracts two young gentlemen, Thomas Egerton and Captain Hurrykin, the former being accompanied by his aunt, Miss Briarby. The American cousin, however, has as a companion ...

... smone time past highly-coloured picture bills on the London hoardings have heralded the coming of Haverly's American United Mastodon Minstrels. The exterior of Her Majesty's Theatre is adorned with these representations of the redoubtable niggers, who ...

... and Burgess Minstrels, once called the Christy's, have for several years past had a clear field for their labours, and have encountered no serious opposition. They are bestirring themselves in view of the appearance of the Mastodon Minstrels at Her Majesty's ...

... enables him to keep the house in a roar with more amusing nonsense than we had in the American Cousin, a play written down in many parts to the bad taste of the American market. Brother Sam is the Hoonourable Samuel Slingsby. Severely considered he is a ...

... just to say of higher promise than Miss Gougenheim. The performances at the Lyceum have been closed this week with an absurd American melodrama,-as funny as a farce, in which Mr E. Watkins delights the public with his extravagant sketch of a negro,. Jocko ...

... the new experiment may give out. To the whole world, as well as to the Americans, it is important to ascertain whether, the extraordinary mutual respect and kindness of the American people generally are attributable to their republicanism: and again, how ...

... indebted for Mr Forbes's beautiful volume, also send us from Edinburgh a bandsomely illustrated copy of the Lay of the Last Minstrel (3). Tile ?? A Sketcher's Tour Round the World.' By Robert Elweg, Esq. With Eight Illustrations from original drawingS, by ...

... retreat in one of our ancient colleges. May all such increase and multiply, say we! American authors,a sentence in one of the memoirs tells us, like all other Americans, have the faculty of earning their own living, and, when they fail to do it by authorship ...

... thought and feeling, but was too imperfect from a purely musical point of view to give full satisfaction. If the spirited American artist could only get rid of her short- comings in the rudimentary parts of vocalisation, we should welcome her thoroughly ...

... iothing-mnore thoroughly than in knowing exactly vwhat people want, and in giving them the very best of the kind. The young American singer who made her debut at the Old House last season appears in the charming cha- racter of the Savoyard beauty. :; Mdlle ...

... new to most readers, and help often to strengthen or define more accurately the impression given by the text. The minor minstrels chirp about our doors at every season of the year. It is only in an appendix to a second edition of his Memoir (2) that we ...