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OKGANOPIIONIC BAND . LAST SIX NIGHTS . " Tho Director has tho honour to announce that , in compliance with tho pressing desire of several distinguished Families arriving in Town , and in consequence of the increasing success which continues to attend these Concerts , ho has been induced to Postpone for a few days Inn provincial engagements , and to repeat those Exthaohdinauy Puufokmancuh every evening during tho ensuing week , being tho last uppouranco of tho Ou-UANoriioNin Hand at tho above Theatre . Stalls , f ) M . ; Hoxes , : ls . ; Pit , 2 h . ; Amphitheatre , 1 h . Tickets and placed to bo secured at Mr . Mitchell ' s Library , 33 , Old Hond Street , at the Hox-OHico of the Theatre , and at the principal libraries and Music Sellers . Doors open at eight o ' clock ; Performances commence at half-past eight . _____
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SECRETARY WANTED , for tho Litisrawy and SCIENTIFIC INBT 1 TUTJON , JOHN HT 11 KKT , F 1 TZROY SQUAUI ! :. —The OHioo being open to competition , Candidates must send in written applications , with testimonials of character and ability , addressed to the Committee , on or before Tuesday , October KHh , 1 H 52 . Inquiries as to Salary , Duties , Ac ., can only bo made in tho Committee Koom between the hours ol'tieven and Ten in the Kvoning . HOWARD TRUKLOVK , Stic , pro tern .
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BARON LIEBKI ON I * ALE ALES . — If I wiahed to associate with any individual brewery my remarks on the alleged adulteration of hitter beer with strychnine , it would have boon only natural to have mentioned another brewery , in which alone , and not in Mr . Allsopp ' s , I waa engaged in investigating the Jlurtoii mode of browing , and it was aIho in that brewery , and not in Mr . Allsopp ' s , that the Bavarian brewers acquired all the instructions they obtained—at Burton . The admiration 1 expressed of this beverage , in my letter to Mr . Allsopp , is advertised in such a manner an to load to tho inference that my praise was exclusively oonfhiod to Mr . A 1 Inopp's hour ; this was not the ease ; my remarks referred to that class of beer . Juhtuh Liicmu . UioHHon , . July 24 , 1 H 52 . N . H .- The liaron'H original letter is in the handH of Mr . Miller , at the Jerusalem Collee-houso , Cornhill , whoro it may be hoou by any one Inking an interest in tho mutter .
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Apropos of Aristotle , and Greek writers generally , I have an explanation to offer to Maria , who " wonders" why I can't " leave Greek and Latin to snuffy pedants and writers in quarterly reviews . " A little German , Spanish , Italian , or French , she thinks , serve to vary the style ; but Greek and Latin she doesn't understand , aad , therefore , looks upon them as impertinent . Now , as Maria , in the same breath , calls me " frivolous " Oirairaiag !) , I will initiate her into my secret . Ancient writers ( doesn't it sound imposing ?) mention a dwarf poet living in Athens or Borne , who was so small and light that his friends the wind l him
fastened lead to his sandals to prevent topping over . There ' s " levity" for you , Maria ! And there you see the virtue of lead . I take the hint . Conscious of my own specific levity , I leaden my remarks with imposing Greek , or formidable philosophy . For you will have noticed in the British mind an incurable suspicion of all vivacious talkers and writers . A solemn ass is so respectable—a " joker" is not to be listened to . As it is not in my nature to be grave , I borrow my gravity from the Greeks . Greek covereth a vast array of ignorance . Greek endoweth stupidity with an air of very supreme wisdom . That which in English would be commonplace , an adroit writer puts in Greek , and then
" How the wit brightens !—how the style refines ! It has been my lot ( I may say misfortune ) to have read a considerable amount of Greek in my time , and , honestly , the best use I have found for it has been for lead to my sandals . I harass Jones with Greek ; he would despise me if it were not for that ; but as he does not know what depths of wisdom may not lie concealed in the mind of a man who calls himself 7 To \ v 8 aK vTos avrjp ( a really fine phrase , by the way—" the many-sorrowed man ! " ) , and who tells him that Zpadcv icj > ' cov iiraBe ( "he has learned through the things he has suffered" ) , Jones keeps contempt in abeyance—though , to be sure , he replaces it with dislike . I harass him , and he hates me . I crush his arguments by a quotation which he doesn ' t understand , and so he is silentbecause he is ashamed to ask the meaning !
, Having replied to Maria , I am now called upon to defend myself against another correspondent , whose charge is , I regret to say , more serious , though it is wrapped up in such delightful flattery , that I can only kiss the hand that chastises ( imaginatively , of course !) I am called upon to laugh at , or be indignant with myself—a feat not easy , although I have abundant laughter , and no deficiency of indignant blood in reference to others . But you shall hear the charge : — " I am doubtful whether this letter , complaining of one of your favourite correspondents , will have a chance of being noticed j but cannot refrain an attempt to reach * Vivian's' conscience , and make him think again about reading Uncle Tom's Cabin . He says that he cannot take an active part in the anti-slavery movement ,
therefore does not want his feelings excited on the subject . Is not that a sentiment he would laugh at in any one else ?—if , indeed , he would not treat them with utter contempt . I have seen a country squire hurry from a room every time the subject of Free-trade was introduced , fearing he might be converted ; and have heard an old lady exclaim against listening to , or reading a book on vegetarianism , "because there might be some truth in it , and for the world she wouldn't have lier mind unsettled on the subject . And everybody knows the repugnance that orthodox people have to discuss theology . Bub that ' Vivian '—the bold , energetic , all-persuasive Vivian—should shrink from any struggle where right and wrong contend , passes all belief !
" I assert , that he can take an active part in the cause ; for his opinion , given pleasantly but vividly in one of his careless articles , has an electric influence , and strikes far down into the hidden feelings of many hearts ! He could thus work more effectively than half the noisy , bustling professors , and do more real good than those who merely contribute silver and gold . I contend , that he has no right to draw back and ' bury his talent ! ' For a punishment , I would like to oblige him to sit still , and peruse calmly every page of that book ; and I should take a malicious pleasure watching the tears roll down his cheeks , or the blood rush to his brow , as imagination pictured the wrongs of humanity , until his very soul was
stirred , and he had resolved to think again whether he could not do something in aid of the Right . " I am , respectfully , " One of Vivian ' s many unknown Female Admieees . " " Thou almost persuadest me to be an Abolitionist . " I suppose I ought to feel repentant , and at once take up JTncle Tom ' s Cabin ; there is one thing that would decide me , and that is for my Fair Unknown to come and sit beside me while I read it . Galeotto fu il libro . . . . . Ah I one thinks , of Fanny Rimini and her Vivian ! But perhaps all this is digressive ; and some acharnS playgoer will be impatient at my not writing up to my title , telling him " all about" the Theatres . What does he care for Unknown Correspondents ; thev
_ . * - * ' ¦ v 11 ii tT il i __ T _ T . > J don't write to him ! Well , then , to be theatrical : we were speaking of Aristotle ; no , he was dragged in apropos of the British Drama—sadly in want of an Aristotle , still more in want of a Sophocles . The British Drama , then , is opening her Temples—and there is an agitation in severa l of the Lay Pulpits . For example , Dbeaby Lane , having found a manager still more enterprising than even Bunn the Magnificent , " her Majesty ' s servants" have been performing Richelieu , Richard III ., and the Hunchbach , in a style which—I am credibly informed—would not disgrace the finest Barn in the three kingdoms . The Ade lphi has also re-opened—Madame Celeste making her first appearance since her tour in America ,
and welcomed with enthusiasm by her staunch admirers . The Haymabket re-opened with the old company performing Money , with Barry Sullivan as Evelyn , rather alarming in the matter of costume : why does he not take a hint from Leigh Murray P And on Thursday the Road to Ruin introduced a debutante , Miss -Rosa Bennett , to a London public , and Alfred Wigan to his old friends of the Haymarket . At Sadleb ' s Wells there has been a " revival" of Massinger ' s City Madam , very dexterously altered as regards the text , very carefully mounted as regards costume and scenic disposition , and very powerfully acted as regards Phelps ' s personation of Luke . I have not been able to see it yet , but a critic , for whose opinion I have unqualified respect , both as to sagacity and independence , assures me that more than once the acting reminded him of the force and lionlike rapidity of Kean . { Mem . for
innocentsnot Charles . ] . From this rapid glance at the " opening preparations tor the winter campaign , " you perceive that I shall have enough to do shortly ; meanwhile let me tell you of the new melodrame at the Pkincess ' s ,
MONT ST . MICHEL . It has been got up with all the care and beauty for which the house is renowned , and achieved asucces de spectacle m spite of the feebleness of the drama . The situations are good and very picturesque ; but , partly from the want of organic life in the piece , and partly from the poorness of the acting , the applause was almost solely due to the scene-painters and the stage-manager . A piquant and original ballet , which opens the piece—a very striking scene of soldiers dismantling a castle—a thrilling pantomimic scenewhere Miss Leclercq climbs into the castle by the window ,
, swings herself on to an old chest of drawers , descends , carries off the papers , and makes her escape by the same route , while the startled soldiers mistake her for a fairy as slie stands in the moonlight ^ for an instant , and then leaps from the window—these were the " points of the first act ; in the second act there is a wonderful scene of the bands by night , covered by mist , and the gradual breaking of day dispelling the mist . But although the applause was uproarious , it was , as I said before , almost exclusively given to the spectacle . When materially shortened , i have no doubt the decorations will ensure it a run .
Wright made his first appearance at this theatre in Mont bt . Michel , and was welcomed like a favourite . Ho did his best to make the part ot Thibaut funny , and the audience laughed where they could ( and you know how little it takes to make an audience laugh ) , but , on the whole , they felt that they were laughing at Wright , and not at Thibaut . Vivian . ^
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The Theatkes in Paris . —The receipts of tho theatres and other places of public amusement in Paris during the month of August amounted to 720 , 3144 * ., Leing an increase over those of the month of July of 257 , 193 f . This improvement may be divided — 52 , 298 f . for the theatres which receive subventions , 212 , 441 f . for the Hccondary theatres , and 44 l 7 f . for < li < lerent places of curionity . The concerts and cafe concerts liavc produced ll , 96 f > f . leas . — Gallgnani .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 978, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/22/
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