... MR. ERNEST GENET'S COMPANY. I Dramatic literature is not likely to be enriched by any of the new pieces Produced at St. George's Hall on S ay evening last by DMr Ernest Genet's company. 'That gentleman himself was announced as the author of a new version ...

... THE BATH STAGE. If there be anything associated with the Bath theatre monee astonishing than its rapid attainment of a position in histrionie art second ouly to London, it must surely be found in the celerity with which it sank into a situation of absolutely ...

... the burlesque order only, and it was not until quite modern times that any author attempted to deal seriously with stage life or stage folk. Thespis, a forgotten play, by Hugh Kelly, an Irishman, which was based en a scurrilous pamphlet which he wrote ...

... Life of the Actor, the Rteform of the Stage, and the great Memorial sat Stratford-on-Avon. I am not the first who has venturied to speak in tihe Church on these subjects ; to discuss the stage and its inflneuce ; to show what it is and what it ought to be ...

... work than his audience will tolerate, is doubtful. The modern English stage is not calculated to stimulate a taste for the poetical drama. While the eye is pleased with magnificent stage pictures, the ear is too often wearied by artificial, humdrum, and ...

... Attica, traversed the vales with his cart and temporary stage to the preeset, the dramatic art has survived all attacks, and flourished in spite of anathema and dark- ness. It must ever do so, for it shows as in a mirror the feelings, hopes, fears, and aspirations ...

... 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 ...

... l appear to show a falling off in the trade of the islands. Le The imports show a desrease of $21,000 from those of 1856, and of $253,000 from those of 1855, and of $4(0,000 from those of 1354. The domestic produce exported in 1857, shows a decrease of ...

... associated with the stage. There are stage-characters, stage-scenes, stage-incidents which confront us; and the movement of the piece pro- ceeds in the accepted stage fashion. If the spec- tator, therefore, is content to accept this ...

... line on the 8th; spoke on April 6 the bark Humphrey Nelson, 28 davs from Valparaiso, for Liverpool; April 7, the Warrior Queen, from London for Rio Janeiro; April 14, the bark Wilhelm, from Ham- burg, for Rio Janeiro; April 17, in lat. 18 S., long. 35 ...

... power, and is capable of grinding 100 hectolitres of wheat in twelve hours. The table of exports shows a steady increase during the months of March and April. An unhappy episode had startled the colony. One of the native chiefs in the French service, named ...

... Legislative Assembly had just passed e the new Reform Bill through its second reading; l - and in the interval that measure, somewhat i s amended, has gone through all its stages. It was then, as usual, sent to the Upper Hornse; and . there, more from ...