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THE NEW NIGGER MINSTRELS

... {A'SGGER AMINSTRBLS. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AFRICAN CHOIR. UNIQUE is the word. What, have we not had negro minstrels galore ! Yes! The American negro and his music are familiar to us; but never before have we had a South African choir to sing us their ...

SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WAR

... his own dominions. A collection of American war lyrics would be incomplete without Dixey's Land, one of the two most extraordinary national airs in existence-the other being, of course, Yankee Doodle. The Americans, as long as they have the making ...

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE

... but that may pass as American ; if the statement be true the authoress is eccentric. Some of our present novelists would have sought injunctions or early graves rather than ?? an adaptation so full of vulgar wheezes, negro- minstrel humour, aud blatant ...

TO-DAY'S NEW BOOKS

... the most recent issue in the Stott Library. Price 6s.] HAMILTON, WALTER (Editor). Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors. (Reeves and Turner.) [Vol. VI, Parodies of Swinburne, Sims, Browning, burlesque ballades, rondeaux, villanelles ...

MUSIC-HALL JOTTINGS

... Empire ballets famous on both sides of the Channel. Mr. Harry Hunter, the popular proprietor and-nmanager of the Mohawk Minstrels takes his annual benefit at the Agricultural Hall on October 13. As is usual on these occasions, an enormous programme has ...

THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS

... MORNING PERFORMANCES WEDNESDAY and CAICURDAY, at Two. The Largest Minstrel Company on earth. HAVERLY'S AMERICAN .7iA'lCIDON' MINSTRELS. Forty Famous Performers. A torrent of new American Attractions. nee~c (Forty) First Part. The Great New York Burlesque ...

THE THEATRES

... proof of worthlessness. An American mock-trial like that with which Colonel Sellers concludes differs from an English mock-trial, such as that, say, in B Bardell v. Pickwick in the fact that it is American; and an American Mercadet is a very comprehensible ...

TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS

... Includin Miss MAXINE ILLIOTT Box-officeopen froml10to,10. Teleplione-5133, Gerrard, LAST TWO WEEK~S OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. LAST TWO MATINEES. AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. TO-MORROW (Saturday), October 7th, and WEDNESDAY NEXT, October 11, at 2.30. -DUKE OF YORK'S ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... truth, as he conceives it, however lis ;greeable, s ene occasion demands. American justice, which often, in(ldcd, seems to let the antecedentem scelestum go scot free, and American Customi-hotses, which are oppressive and unfair in their action, d!o not ...

SOME HALF-FORGOTTEN WORTHIES

... Franklin, the Epicurean, and Emerson, the Stoic, are the worthiest representatives of American philosophy. Franklin, too, is one of the soundest and most unaffected of American literary artists. The praise bestowed upon his style by Mr. Stebbing is little ...

LITERARY NOTES, NEWS, AND ECHOES

... cover not only the novels, poems, and fugitive writings, but a complete list of all the essays anct reviews (English and American) which have been written on George Meredth. * * * * * The reference to the Lincoinshire'dialect of the Northern Farmer ...

THE BANJO AND THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY IT

... play in which he was to create the part of a wandering demented minstrel c la s Rameau.' There was an instance of rapidity,) AN E;X1'IIENCB OF AN AMERICAN LADY. Again, a young American lady whom I was teaching saw at a garden, party a banjo 'trick' ...