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NttocbTs , ttotwithstandinff the partial failure of the Brat night , holds on , and may perhaps in th ^ end pr' ^ eht the unusual bit not unparalleled example of a piece slowly smuggling into popularity' , and gainings b y dogged repetition , what it failed to seize at the first dash . Its history , however , presents rather acuriousinBtance pf uneasy hesitation and , staggering . The play was rehearsed ( as our readers have beea already ; informed ) in its totality ; on the first public night , a considerable portion was omitted , forspectacular reasons , though the omission rendered the story obscure ; tWo nrghta later , the excised part was restored , and the piece seemed to gain in . popularity ; and now , Mr . E . T . Smith announces that this same portion is , again struck out , and that the play is reduced- to three acts'and the grand tableaux ,, The Dbobt Lake manager writes to the Times to publish , this notification ,
and . to remonstrate with * 'the Thunderer ' s" critic on his intrant of fairness to thedrama , though the s * i 4 critii ? admitted , the ^ plepdour and uniqueness of the ! scenery , processions , &c . \ Ehis acknowledgment of spectacular magnificence is in fact all that . can be said / forTfiipcHs * Whether the play be in three acts , or in seven—whether Mtf . FrizBA £ i . ! s poetryhe ; given in toio or in a mutilated form—the drama , as a drama , is tedious and worthless—a i ^ elodrama ' 'without the usual " motion and excitement ,. , and with a . hopeless attempt to be ideal , and Shakspearean in language . ; It can only be regarded as a vehicle for spectacle ; and the spectacle , it n ^ tist be admitted , is gorgeous , novel , and striking . A vast-elaboration of details is so massed andarranged as to give an effect of great solidity and grandeur 5 and we have a seriesof tableaux presenting to us theregal , triestlyi and , military , life of the early
Egyptians , as exhibited in their stupendous architecture , their grotesque sculptures , their monstrous idols , " their brjlliaiit pageantries ,, the barbaric jJotnji ^ tf" their many-coloured costumes , theirsetoi-religious dances- *—where the -woixyeB ( , 'rtrathrabruptj angular , ' and weird movements , seem : to bave started to life from the ; toaibs of Thebes , and to be . expressing , sonie obscure ; and dusky meaning—their fantastic banquets , and their interminable processions . Mr . Smith has done himself no good by bis preliminary puffs ; and . false reference to Herodotus ; and whoever goes to see iVifoerisjas " a drama will be _ disappointed . But regard it as a series of dioramas , with : mechanical contrivances and dumb show , and it is wOrth seeing ; and this is ithe orilj . reflfect it . leaves on tbe mittdi We have been led into these further remarks by Mr . ' Smith's appeal to the Times and by the modification whieh the piece has undergone
since last week . . , .. . . -. ¦ < 1 •¦[ v '¦ . = ; | ; ¦;¦' '!;; ¦ :: ¦ : ' . j We observe , ! by the way , that a burlesque'of ivYiWcWs- fe advertised at the Stband for next Monday .
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Why doesn ' t Parliament interfere ? Here is a horrible thing going to happen , and there is no law to prevent it . The London public is on the eve of being robbed , and can't help itself in the matter . We are about to have our pleasure curtailed , and no Sunday Hyde , Bark meetings can avert the injury . We are threatened with ; a- grievous thing ' * and even a leading article in . the-Times wouldn ' t inend the case . To come to the point Miss Woolgab is'abdut to be married , and to leave the stage ! We can of course have no objection to her going to church with orange blossoms and bridesmaids , nor to her choice falling on Mr . Alfbbd Mbixow ; but we can scarcely forbear grumbling a little at her retiring for ever from the public sight . We cannot afford to lose her . She is one of those actresses who infuse into the lifeless routine of the stage the vitality of individual feeling-the throbbings of veritable sensitiveness and emotion . She has
, humour of that rich , bright , and airy nature which proceeds from the power to represent the contrary feeling ; pathos of that intense , delicate , and unexaggerated kind which , whether in writing or in acting , is alone found in connexion with susceptibility to the genial and the happy . She is a true actress , and something more than an actress . We have many pretty dolls on the stage , sufficiently well versed in the grammar of their profession , but few rising actresses of promise . We repeat , we cannot afford to lose Miss Woor-GAR . We presume she will have a farewell night ; on which occasion , we recommend tha £ th } e audience pelt her , not with bouquets , but with petitions , or , if with flowers , that they should first take a few lessons in the Oriental language of buds and blo ^ dms , and so arrange their floral offerings as to form the words " Go not yet , "
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MR . DICKENS'S BEADING OF THE " CHRISTMAS CAHOL . " Tub South Eastern Gazette states ;—" Mr . Dickens read his ' Christmas Cmol' to , si * hundred persona at Folkestone . Tlw spacious buHdjng ^ which la capable of holding six * hundred and fifty persons , presented a most animated scene : it was » aijy ^ orated 1 with « Vergeeens and flagd of all nations . A great number of the nobility ftA'A ff ^ try , an , d , ¦ Wsitorafrom the Pavilion H 6 t « l , were present . We also observed Mr .. Mark Lemon , M ^ , X-eaoli , And other nwraiV celebrities , as w « H as Mrs . Dickens and h « r fiunilv ; ' "Mr . Dickens , in his reading , dr » w fortjh much merrim , epti and applause ; Ma voiteHyas ^ cleW , fiii * not loud . M ~ together / ifc w « a a great treat , and such an assemblage h « w , never , before been seen ai Folkestone at any Lecture or reading . The arrangements . by the Lecture committee fqfr the | cforive ^ lbiice ' of the p | ib )) o yr ? T 9 excelWnti , « nd no jnember waa Vefused who pro-• eatedW « oW ) W ticket . " . , ,. .. ¦¦ , n . i n , ,. ' '¦ - . ' ¦ ¦ ¦
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world is'i griofefritvtAmmi& ' ¦* &vmh the other half lives , ; bu $ rwe dp not find any won ^ rfol ; propositions : for anending the evil . The giant will not die by the mere flinging of-avstone ^ or by the con templation of tEe monsier . PerliapsJVIr . Ph ^ iipi »' leav ^ the Remedy to establiBhedi institutions or proi ^ sed philaniihro ^ ts . ^ Qftfteidefihg that trhe . author hired a •** professsionar ' guide , his revelations are scanty . He baa been accused of imitating Dickens Tn style , and he jdflniesi the . aspersion' ; but the denial is unnecessary , for we are not reminded- in . « ny- way df ' -the only book by Dickens with which our author ' s could ^ be , associated ,, Qfiyer Twist . But the charge is intelligible . Mr . PhUli ' psJs what we . call a con 5 cjc » i : ts writer ; his sketches are sli g ht and hurried ; and , under an affecjtatibh of ; u ' a bright-eyed ease , " he disguises the sense of his owi >; pfe <^ 4 p ^| pig | k . , \ . Twenty-fiTTe ^ ears ago Mr . . Smart caine ' forward and announced that he had . inade it . discoye ^ yjBomeitiing- < tb thei following effect : — N " o part of speech is properly a word , but ; only , the part of a word ,: a part comr pleted by what fo ) lowa t or -completing what precedes , yet in such a manner-that it expresses no part of the thought which the- word -wilt express when completed : the Tyiggnfrig of thid word will be dne arid indivisible , to ^ sist in conveying - > vhich , each pact resigns ltd separate meanine ^ he inbment it enters into union with the other parts ip ^ tfd ^^ fo ^ -ln ^ Votdt i FprJfSsjtatite , iii : ' - " saying Men-ntust-die , the whole ekpressjon lj » Vtoej : . wpr 4 ^ th ' 4 ? , ^ w ^ P ^^/ F ^ f' * h e ; ., tii 6 ugbt , * r-the parts ,. iroew , must , dte , are . parts . of the . word , but notiparts of the attained aieaning : each indeed has a meaning while separate , but the moment it jo } ns the other part , it merges its separate meaning in the one meaning of the word it'helps' to form . ' . "' .. ' ,. fc . - ^ There | is isl ¦ certain pleasure in weeping , " is another sentence -which may i ^ f ^ e ^ feijn - ^ ijjng ^ , ¦ ; ,.,.. , ; : ¦ , , J- ; v ., *; . . . ; ¦' .,: ¦ . ¦ . ¦ .- .:. ¦ .,.. ^ Herfej ^ iront ^ the premises \ tJffie . / anx 3 is , ; -vy-e , receive the one meaning € he ! re-ia . ¦ : aiga ^ , ; ifrteDnt , ih \ e . r p ^ mjs ^/ ja ' lan ^ vcertoJW ^ iJ ^ j ^ eTtaHKw ^ pt ^ , we get the . one meaning a-certain ^ pleasure-in-weeping ; but included in this Byllogism are two Sub-syllogisms , toe firat / having for its premises' certain and pleasure , which yield the ' one meaning c&rfaih ^ jpleaiit + e ; arid the < 6 ? eond , in and weepw ^ -which yield the one meaning in * «^ 4 p *^ - A ^ id | lastly , the premises TJicre-is , and a ^ rtain-pleasuro-iti-ibeeping , ^ yield the oneVmpaning of thenvhole , sentence . - . ' , '' " ' ¦ .. ' ' ' " . , r JSIji Smart- wast . quite prepared fbr any denial of the originality ioffcliistheory ; as he expected , ' aMeniaT did' cdnie' from a \ criticri & ? & / the Examiner ; , and he naively iniorms . us that he jbas Rooked , ln yain for any one , expressing hig owri ' o ' piniphs . Still he cannot lielp persuading himself that the critic ' s objection arose from his inability to distinguish between two separate views df the nature of speech , and he ' Tvavris thte readers of Thought and Language t ^ . ; t | ei oiik ; their , guard against '< jbnfjusr « : ii of ideasi When Mr . Smart's theory ia-acceptedj Xiocke and Horne To ^ ke will be reconciled to themselves , and to each other } fot' aTfthbugn'b 6 tb : these ' p ^ hilosopners sawthe relation between thought and langqAgfe , it ^ fiSfnly |> een explained by Mr . Smart . The compTalfit ^ tirgc ^ t ? y Mj ; , ^ niart . qgains ^ cr ^ tics adverse to his views are ludicrous ^ almost chudish (;> iie is ( as sensitive Otothsd'scb ^ e of riegie ' cfas a young girl who feinCies her love ^ 'l' ^ bks art 6 tfiet waj ^ Wecpmjplaius that periodieala keep 't a cautious , ailencq , ' ! He remariks of ; one that it hasistood between him and the public by' * designed ' and -detaideVi misrepresentation '; " and of another , that it charged him with a design " to cheat the public by substituting himself for Aristotle . " , But he does not ignore the fact that he has sometimes been favourably noticed , even to the extent of having laudatory footnotes about him in works of liigh reputation . If is always Fhe fate of genius for " a I ^ me't'p' be' misu ' nderstbod i " thie good that men do lives after them . We wish the present volume could bring its author the renown he so eagerly covets . , . < ,, i
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PAINTINGS AT CLtEFFDEN HOUSE . The Duchess of SuTHKi 9 ti . ANii | i ^ 3 ijidprited a method of artistic decoration for her mansion of ClieffUen , near Maidenhead , in Berkshire , to which Mr . A . Her vie u has applied his pencil . Mil . Hjkrvieu has endeavoured to introduce a style of decorating rooms with painting in such a manner as to cpmbiue , architeoturai design with the use of picture , and to enlarge the eff ect pf ^ spnee , as , ve , U , as giy ^ .. or ^ ajnent , to the rooms of our narrowly-constructed houses . : Money expended in works of decoration cannot , to speak commercially , be applied Kpore economically than in this form ; since nothing more contributes to metamorphose the limited space -which vre allow pur-• elyetf in ptir horiies than the cirtotion of a new scene on every side , and aDOve . ' K ' 'i ? 6 v " Mr ' . Hbiivibu not only takes > the walls into account , he decorate » itha , ! ceiling ^ and . it isiceilings which he has been commissioned to execute at Glieffden ., One is ihtUe Duchesa ' a dressing-ropm . It repreaents a oky , ' jn ^ il ^ icbj , the ni ^ ht depots , ixt , one 0 pd , while the dawn takes posseaaionVoftKo'other ; . Cupids hnlf-liiddon amongst the clouds give life % o the upward View . The '' . other ' coiling , liowever , is a still more pertinent sp ' eoimen ' o ^' itHe ' rityiek / iltiia ^ over the chief staircade , an < l it giVes a circular opening in the rppf , wij ; ty a parapet , through wjhich the sky is seen . Alletfoi \ fk \ ' $ H $$ if ^^^^ j ^ ji ^ ^ jbsw ' ^ Bon ^ -irq portrwts of four of the Q ^ i ^ lie ^ w Kl ^ A » M , imp 6 rflonfttH ^ ahe Sp r ^^^ and Autumn : the M ^ uis < < $ ; qW ^ Winter : By meana ' . of ; . tbet architectural portion' the' pKiiitfnff is wnriedted with the substantial b | i ||^ n ' g ' ftsft lf |; , W , ilivw ' . itke ' . ' a ^ tttpart ';« fts '&tf « mti to 4 h ' o % o 'of adairig ; a positive increase to space . Some ojf ' ilW ^ eaie ^ t'trieny in ^^ ^ ti ^ jft ^^ tW . 'diaoorlitor brings hk aocompliBhmmikiffyfii fipifl y ^ yyttiff ; : % h . Scji ; , xfi" : ¦ p ^ aft ^ ftfyi-.-ffe peculiarly fifefc 11 ' 'The , !
I } uchess of . Sutherland has shown discrimination jtn adding the introduction ofthis style . to ' 'the btT ^ erideooi » tk » hsvHch tro ^ y ifl ^" completeness to'i h ^ birthday ^ gift- ' of liie Duke ^ -fbs suet -was Glieffden ; HalL ; •• " .. " ,
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Covbkt GARDBN .- ^ -It is stated that Mr ; Awdebsow , »< the Wizard of the North , ' has . become , the lessee of this . house during the inter-operatic season , and that at Christmas he will produce ft spectacle and magic pantowiino which are to exhibit the talerifs of the best performers and all the mechanical resources of the theatre . ' *
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 1016, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2111/page/20/
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