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... THE playgoers who have complained that the new piece at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre deals with an unpleasant theme, cannot at least pretend that they have been taken by surprise; for Mr. Philips, who in ...
... THE playgoers who have complained that the new piece at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre deals with an unpleasant theme, cannot at least pretend that they have been taken by surprise; for Mr. Philips, who in ...
... The reopening of the St. James's Theatre under the management of Mr. Hare and Mr. and Mrs. Kendal has been the occasion of the revival of the late Mr. Robertson's Home, a comedy written expressly for ...
... MISS FOTHERGILL, having mastered a certain limited number of characters and situations, appears to be content with her position, and to consider repetition of herself the better part of invention. Her ...
... MR. EDWIN BOOTH has exchanged the part of Cardinal Richelieu in the late Lord Lytton's play for that of Bertuccio in The Tool's Revenge. This is perhaps the finest, and is certainly the most elabo rat ...
... IOLANTHE. --That Mr. Arthur Sullivan, in partnership with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, his alter ego of several years' standing, has merited and won a new success would seem to be unanimously, and on fair gro ...
... BALDNESS, unfortunately, is a subject which has a present or prospective interest for most people; even the medical student may find himself attracted to it by a grim spell of personal curiosity as we ...
... WITH the recollection of For Percival upon us, it need hardly be said that in Damocles (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.). Margaret Veley has written an able and thoughtful novel. It is most unlikel ...
... A DOG and HIS SHADOW, by R. E. Francillon, authorof Olympia: a Romance, &c. (3 vols. : Grant and Co.).-- Mr. Francillon is an artist in story-telling. He is not satisfied merely with having an exc ...
... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- The holidays are well nigh over, and the beneficial result of mental, as well as physical, rest is evident in the freshness of ideas evinced by our ballad writers both a ...
... M i-j| [ii jjp e 'RKAjDE\5 1 1 i THE yearly volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute is always full of matter-- its several papers, with hardly an exception, the contributions of me ...
... THE season at Covent Garden Theatre began on Tuesday even- ing with a performance of Luvia di Lammermoor, Mdlle. Sessi taking the heroine's part. So did the last season begin; but. with the diff ...
... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- It is no easy task to conduct a cotillon, as it is technically called; you may almost as well execute a symphony without a conductor, as to get safely through the mazes of ...