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FANCY DRESS BALL AT THE DRILL HALL

... variety of oolour seldom seen elsewhere. The Spanish picador, the Swiss and Italian peasant, the Russian hussar, and the American rancher with his paraphernalia of bowie knives, pistols, whips, Jo, and a bhst of other fancy costumes such as barristers ...

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD

... along its banks I wander'd, Through groves that had begun to shed Their golden leaves upon the pathways, ?? steps the Border minstrel led. The nsigbty M~Iinstrel breathes no longer, 'Mid mouldering ruins low he lies And death, upon the braes of Yarrow, Has ...

VARIETIES

... Miustrelsy was not proved. Ile argued that they must all play together to be minstrels, whereas there was only one. Then how about Sir Walter Scott's ' Lay of tbe Last Minstrel ?' asked the judge. While a prisoner was being searched at the central police ...

Literary and Artistic

... have been discovered. and The Critic, an American literary journal of repute, e of having invited its readers to ballot for forty living native ige male authors who should be the members of a possible American Academy. the first ten in order on the ballot ...

VARIETIES

... Lazy Minstrel this week. He has deceived us. Hle left word that he had quitted Town on purpose to get a fresh breath of In.y,.ra- tion. For private reasons we-well, we doubt it. 'We send him this through our own private laziphone The Minstrel Boy to ...

POETRY

... unhilown; but the ballad, Sing to the, music of tile harp, sas a faniliar form of expression. The Gleeman, olv wandering minstrel. travelling from hall to hall, sang before his Norman conquerors suchstraintsasoccasion suggested. The following verses are ...

LITERATURE

... nights are devoted to the pleasures which follow him here from town. for in his walse cometh the lid- diers ansd the comic minstrels. He continues to ruin his constitution with late suppers and late houre. instead of striving to mend it. He has msay warnings--a ...

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC GOSSIP

... extraordinary novelty takes place to-morrow (Friday evening) at ostr royal gardens, namely, a company of Italian and French minstrels. who are just arrived from the contitent. and was never in England before. whose pettrformances are so truly astonishtig ...

STANTON-BY-DALE FLOWER SHOW

... conducted by ts Mr. Siggers, added mush to the enjoyment of the visitors.e ,,Mr. W. W~right, late a member of the American Slave w Tronpe M~instrels, gave a number of songs. A number of ss balloons wrer senit up in the evening. The following is the Fe rT rize ...

LONDON AMUSEMENTS

... Pearse Morrison, chairman of the Guildhall School of Music. The No. 1 Provincial Company of the well-known Moore and Burgess Minstrels will appear at the Drill Hall, Derby, on Friday and Saturday next, March 26, and 27. MURDER OF A BRITISH ISUBJECT IN CUBA ...

Dramatic and Musical

... list, it is sail, settlo~ ed daw to a big sueoes 4. an'! already heavy offers have been maeti for the American rights. .Mr. lrensli bought thu American rights of -'Chimilian in Advance. Apropt's of the last-named, it is said 'The eartliejiste at, the ...

RIFLE VOLUNTEER BALL

... 1 Baby soy. Polka, Low-back'd Car. Lancers, new. Valse, ' First Love. Galop, '1 Burlesque. Quadrille, - Christy Minstrels, Schottiache, 'Annie, Valso. Lancers, English., Galop, Dixey's Land. Quadrille, - 1 Court of St. James, Polka, ...