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... premriature at the present moment to disclose particulars. However, I may say this, that it is hoped that Sir Harcourt Courtly wvill be impersonated by a grentleman whose return to the comedy stage-even for one afternoon-would excite no little interest. A SUCCESSFUL ...
... SIXTY-ONE PRISONERS BURNE]D ALIVE.' A tefrible story, says the Japan N*Veikly ftil, comes by telegram fromr l Iliroihima. It is fo 'tie efihct that' on the night of the 3rd ui., at about ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the gaol and spread with such rapidity ...
... TRADE UNIONS ON TIHE STAGE. OFTEN was my hand itching to write about what I saw on the English stage; but I never had the courage to do so since I met with a somewhat unsuccessful experiment with Mdlle. Formosa. I have since seen but very bad English ...
... SOME STAGE OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. It has been reserved for its modern professors to raise the art of optical deception to the dignity of a scientific performance by availing themselves of modern discoveries in optics, pneumatics, electricity, and other ...
... THE ART OF BURLESQUE. THERE are some interesting questions connected with what, for distinction, sake, we may call the illegitimate drama to which the inquiring mind might be directed during the comic season at the theatres. What the swallows did with ...
... beaten the English aristocracy on the Corn-law question. However that may be, the Crimean War broke out, and an era of wars at once set in. The task of any community which wishes to keep the peace has become more difficult a hundredfold. A vast body of resent- ...
... ART FOR THE HOME. Mr. W. A. S. Benson, the Oxford man who has recently followed Mr. Morris into the furnishing business, sends to the ToynbeeJournzal the following suggestions for an art club similar to the sketching clubs which are already so popular ...
... THE ARTFUL DODGER. OUR Radical friends seem to have entirely missed the true th significance of the present political situation. They have ar been gurgling with delight, real or feigned, over Lord Li ROSEBERY'S appointment to the Premiership; but they ...
... mortification may, and often does, result frfin a fracture, that a headache may be the precursor of insanity, that a pimple may be the beginning of cancer, and that if you die even that may be an illusion, in which case you will certainly be buried ...
... very few of them, are happy in America. It will take a long time for art to become a real thing there. Painters who go there find that art transplanted dies out, or if any keep it alive, in some sort, they have to come perpetually to Europeto nourish it ...
... golden age of the theatre, as it is of all the arts ; painters, musicians, and actors are paid better and bonoured more highly than they have ever been before. As I said, it is the golden age of the arts, But I am an old woman ; I am getting garrulous ...
... their confidence in it. W hile all other arts are advancing, the great art of government, that of constructing and maintaining an executive power, seems likely to be counted, for a time at least-but a time which may be measured by centuries- among the lost ...