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1240 THE LEADER. [Sawuday,
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The boy who was sent to Vivian's house f...
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Cmrantrrial Iffitra.
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. UlUT...
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KOltKIGN KUND8. (Laht Ovihoiaij Quotatio...
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PANORAMA OF THE BERNESE ALPS, People who...
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THE MARIONETTES at ST. JAMES'S THMATRIC
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Passages From A Boy's Epic. Xv. Olympus....
Shall stand for sovran right , and rule the world ; And till the woman budding in the soul , Outgrow the savage ; and the nobler man J ) o acts heroic , to make pale the deeds Of men that stand up tall and beautiful Amid the light of sWords , when danger weds With grace , and strength with wisdom , and beyond All life , Lave shines a star that never sets . " Sh « ended , and the Father of the World Smote the rejoicing earth , and soon appeared * Millions of radiant creatures , some with wings j Etherial , some with massive pinions stood , Prompt to accompany the Gods to Heaven . Now rose the chariot , and therein enthroned , The God and Goddess and their Godlike mate , Atcended slowly on sustaining winds . Meanwhile , to greet the dazzling host that streamed Upward and onward , through the bright ' ning clouds , Hung gorgeous banners , drooping to the earth , While trumpets shook their silver scorn abroad , And music panted in the moaning air . Here wavering arms o ' er rosy feet were crost , And here gold tresses dropt down azure gulfs Of summer weather . In remoter heights Great heads , with garlands , lookt thro' glitt ' ring clouds , And calm glad faces , rising row o ' er row , Crowded the Heaven with beauty . So convoyed Through the smooth air , the mighty splendour flowed , So reacht the stars , and now beyond the stars , Showed like some wondrous fleet beheld in dream , Sailing with ships before and ships behind , In infinite succession , prow and stern . But slowly now the Olympian gates unfold , For life and will were in them , leading down Thro' a great brightness to the sacred towers And golden houses , where the Gods abide In joy and glory ; nor ambrosia fails , Nor nectar for the feast ; nor for the dance Fails ever lyre or song : but Muse and Grace , Still mix their lovely shadows as they glide , Like breezes ruffling Heaven ' s transparent floor . Now fainter shone that far-off company , Entering at sapphire portals into Heaven . But when the last of that rejoicing host Stept thro' the gates , Heaven closed inaudible , And hid his awful beauty from the world . Then darkness came ; but mid the purple gloom , Hung on the sparkling finger of the night , A silver wreath , with stars for letters , told Of Ariadne , crowned by deathless hands , And one lone woman on the Cretan shore , Beheld and understood , and thankt the Gods . M .
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The Boy Who Was Sent To Vivian's House F...
The boy who was sent to Vivian ' s house for the " copy" expected under this head , brought back word that lie was invisible ?; not at home to any one . A slip of paper was handed by his servant to our boy . We print it without comment . " ripoy tovs vfovs O 7 T 6 ) 9 av e £ F , Wt ) Vik < ov < L ( f ) e \ oi pro \ oycop . Vtvtan . "
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Panorama Of The Bernese Alps, People Who...
PANORAMA OF THE BERNESE ALPS , People who hare seen as many , say , as half-a-dozen of Burford ' B circular pictures , are pretty well accustomed to being thrown into fits of delighted surprise , chiefly by the natural effect of the distance . If a mountain range enclose the view , they feel it is so much the better j and if some of the peaks be snow-capped , better still . ^ So that we may imagine a great many pairs of hands rubbed together in gleeful expectation of unprecedented wonders , when the news came out the other day that Mr . Burford had been to S witzerland , and had taken his stand on the summit of the
Faulhorn ; and had looked eastward on the rocky walls of the four cantons , and westward to the Alps of Savoy ; and had made a note of Lucerne and Unterwalden , with their stern sentinels , Bighi and Pilate and had jotted down the Finsteraarhorn and Jungfrau ,- and all the other peaks discernible of the Bernese Oberland ; and had taken account of the pasture-lands and pine-forests , and booked the glaciers , and checked off the lakes and villages ; and , in short , had put down , reckoned up , and brought away in the pockets of an unsuspicious-looking little sketch-book the sum total of-the vast pictorial riches belonging to that divided empire of the Terrible and the Lovely .
How Mr . Burford has done this may be seen by all who will take the trouble to go as far as Leicester-square , any day between nine and dusk . Ah , that old house , standing modestly back in a corner of the square !—Is it possible we should ever enter at its low , wide portal , and dive into its dusky length of passage , and not be mindful of a time when , " Burford ' s" was to us what nothing can ever be again—a happy dream , to come true regularly twice a-year ? Are there not hundreds who love the placeas we do , for its pleasant memories of such a time , not less than of
, later holidays passed amid the actual scenery represented ? And there is this great thing to be said for the panoramas ; that , in considering how much of their former interest was objective , and how much subjectivewhat proportion was due to the artist ' s skill , and what to the ingenuous freshness of the boy—the paintings , as paintings , must gain rather than lose place in our estimation . Thus , at no time could we have been more thoroughly impressed with the truthfulness of Mr . Burford ' s pencil than Wft wfiT-p . thft other dav in lookinsr at the Bernese Alps . "What was it that
we saw , standing on the awful Faulhorn , eight thousand feet above the level of Leicester-square ? Listen . At first the eye wanders round in that endless confusion of ^ springing forms , and soon gets wearied with trying to measure objects and distances without some standard to go by . So , for a time , it will be as well if we take a narrower range , and gradually accustom our sight to the vastness beyond . The very mountain on which we stand includes a pretty tolerable field of objects for a Londoner to begin with . The inn where they make up some thirty beds for travellers , at an elevation six hundred feet above the Hospice of St . Bernard !—from July to October , that is to say , for the severity of the storms during the remaining eight months of the year compels the entire abandonment of the dwelling .
Glimpses may be caught of the path which ascends over the J 3 uch Alp from Grindelwald , as well as of the more dangerous track , passing the waterfall of the Griesbach above the lake of Brienz . We are now looking away from the little inn ; and there , below , is the lake just mentioned , from the margin of which this same Faulhorn abruptly springs . The lake appears in two places , and there again—no , that is another and a smaller lake , the name of which we don't remember . On the opposite bank of the Brienz lake is the town of Brienz—a real town , with a church , parsonage , and two or three inns . We count several of these little wooden villages , standing among forests of cherry-trees , in a district everywhere blessed for the excellence of its kirch-wasser . And now we can venture
to look abroad without so much fear of getting confounded by the number and magnitude of the peaks . As we turn eastward these rise higher and higher , the terrible Shreikhorn topping all . Next it is the Finsteraarhorn , and then come the Eiger , the Monch , and the Jungfrau . There ia little else than a jagged chain of snow-covered peaks on this side the picturo , where the distant lakes of Zug and Lucerne show as mere strips . Indeed , the whole view is deficient in lake and river ¦ eenery , what little there is being at the western base of our mountain . We look that way again , at the sunset , which is so natural as to account at once in our mind for the shadows which are really gathering below , and which deepen faster as wo look . So wo look no more , but , pulling greatcoat and comforter close ! about our ears , descend into Cranbourri-street . Q-
The Marionettes At St. James's Thmatric
THE MARIONETTES at ST . JAMES'S THUATKIC .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25121852/page/20/
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