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... change came over the spirit of his literary career. Hitherto he had figured in London society alone; had studied its phases only; and had catered as a writer for the London public by holding up his readers to them- selves, tanquam in speculo, and taking ...
... Robert Brough has earned for himself a reputation in various branches of authorship that will not quickly pass away. Born in London on the 10th of April, 1828, he was removed at an early age to Pontypool, in Mon- mouthshire, and thenceto Newport, where he ...
... in giving a new and very clever Entertainment, entitled GaOin on Anyhow, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Strand. The Entertainment has been written expressly for them by Mr. James Bruton, embodying a series of Illustrations peculiar to ...
... of All Trades (Christmas, 1825), showing the adventures of a man-of- war from the launch at Dover, its encounter with a gale, the wreck, and the towing into a foreign port. In 1826 The.31an in the moon introduced two further illustrations of his powers ...
... arranged upon a different plan, and upon the pit tier some new private boxes will be constructed. Some new artists of Parisian eminence will appear in addition to those who have already been seen in London, and the list of works will include a number of standard ...
... performed in several towns during the present Christmas has the Nativity for its subject, and the actors are homely peasants. The orchestra will be nothing more than a bagpipe, flute, and violin. The story illustrates the life of Joseph and Mary, and the stable ...
... much melancholy interest among all classes of society as the death of the most accomplished actor of the day. When the news reached London on Monday night that Mr Charles Mathews had expired in Manchester, at four o'clock that afternoon, the sad intelligence ...
... for the benefit of others not so well-informed The Stranger's and Visitor's Conductor through London. Eight years later-that is, in 1859, he pro- duced a new and enlarged edition of another of his already long-popular guide-books, the particular one here ...
... Wife, which, like The Moonstone, underwent dramatisation. While this new story was yet running, our novelist contributed to the Christmas number of the Illustrated London News, just at the close of 1871, a brilliant little story in thir- ...
... was particularly interest- ing, and the languid Ladies Pontefract and Stutfield had good representatives in Miss Marjorie Christmas and Miss Enid Spencer-Burton. Miss Jason was a neat Alice. COOmE'S ROYAL Ciacus.-Proprietor, Mr John Henry Cooke.-This popular ...
... DEATH OF ALMA STANLEY. News was received in London on Thursday night of the death of MissAlma Stanley. Inquiryfails to elicit the precise origin of the telegram, and Bliss Stanley's last place of residence in London is closed; but her immediate friends ...
... remains of the late Edgar Dunstan Smart, whose death at Rochdale was briefly announced last week, were removed to London and interred in a new grave beside his father's, the late Henry Smart, at Hampstead Cemetery at noon on Tuesday last. The service was ...