On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (5)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
., . /i> A A x ^ntrw Cnttrtotranentjs —?
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
eery handsome little volume , very handsomely illustrated . This will be a -welcome Christmas present to good little girls and boys . ^ Christian Days and Thoughts . By Dr . Ephraim Peabody . ( Sampson Low , and Co . )—An extract from the preface will disclose the nature and object of the work , and-will render' criticism from us superfluous—the book will do little good where it is hastily read , or put aside . Its voiceis not one to be heard in the streets , or to join in the discussions of the day . It rather asks to be admitted to the confidence of those who will receive it in the stillness of their most retired and private hours . Its calm tones of religious tenderness and trust would find theiT way into the closet . of
The Primeval World . A Treatise on the Relations Geology to Theology , By the Rev . Paton Gloag . ( Edinburgh : T . and T . Clark . —Mr . Gloag fairly enough tells us that he is dissatisfied with the works which have been published for the purpose of showing that the recent discoveries in geology are not inconsistent with revealed religion , because they do not carry the question far enough nor wide enough . He has endeavoured to supply the gap , but he candidly admits that he does not think that the period has arrived " when a satisfactory theory , reconciling the Mosaic cosmogony with the facts of geology can be very confidently advanced . " He believes that our knowledge , especially of what is called the drift period , is not sufficiently complete to admit of
the enunciation of any such theory , except as '' hypothesis not inconsistent with our present knowledge , but liable to be modified by subsequent observations and discoveries . " Mr . Gloag does not accept the literal biblical version of the deluge . After careful examination he arrives at the conclusion that the deluge was limited in extent . This conclusion is no novelty ; The same belief has existed time out of miud , and among many nations . In particular the old races of India allege that their records extend back for 70 , 000 years , and they account for this by asserting that when the deluge took place , of which they have a distinct tradition , ft did not reach India , and therefore it left them and their traditions intact . The book is written in a temperate and inquiring spirit , and , as a compilation of other men ' s opinions and theories principally , we think it is well worth studying .
Untitled Article
DRtTRY tANE THEATRE . Oif Saturday the Bohemian Girl completed her fifteenth year , and was received by a crowded house with enthusiasm . On Monday a very fashionable and numerous audience assembled on the occasion of Mr . W . Harrison ' s benefit to witness the first representation of the Trovatore at this theatre under the present management . The cast of the opera was as follows :- ^—Leonora , Miss Louisa Pyne ; Azucena , Miss S . Pyne ; Manrico , Mr . W . Harrison ; Count di Luna , Mr . F . Glover ; Ferrando , Mr . G- Patey . Miss Pyne sang in her best style , and well earned by her dramatic as well as musical efforts the floral
offerings ( including a wreath of laurel ) showered upon her by the delighted audience . In the " Miserere " and subsequent scenes her efforts roused all present to enthusiasm , and so exhausted her ph 3 'sicul power that , with great regret , but less surprise , we hcrtrd of her inability to appear on Tuesday evening . Mr . Harrison was successful in the " Deserto snlla terra , " an air well suited to his voice , and contributed , by his subdued and clear delivery of the " All che la morte , " to the encore tumultuously awarded to the world-famous scene of the " Miserere . " Mr . Glover , an artist whose progress we mark with interest , was earnest and correct in the part of the Count , and was
properly encored in his air , " II balen dersuo sornso . Miss Susan Pyne , whose voice is not veil adapted to the music of Azucena , evinced an amount of intention and dramatic energy as the gipsy mother of Manrico that quite secured her recognition as one of the leading features of the cast . We cannot close our remarks without observing that the completeness and excellence of Mr . Mellon ' s band are no less indispensable to the success of this e nterprise than the beautiful voice of tire directress , and we hope to learn that this department of the opera will . be transferred in its integrity , and under the same able head , to the company ' s new home at Covent Garden .
COVEXT GARDEN THEATRE . This house is rapidly preparing to receive the Pyne and Harrison company . The tiers of private boxes are , of course , in progress of conversion into public amphitheatres , and some of the numerous rows of stalls will be temporarily degraded into oldfashioned , popular , remunerative pit sittings . Mr . Balfe ' s new opera , Satanello , is spoken of , by those able to give such opinion , as surpassing in musical excellence all of his previous efforts . We hope soon to announce with equal certainty that it will " take " with the public . Predictions on this head are easy enough , but , as managers sometimes find to thuir cost , rather hazardous .
together enough property to make a sureeorT ^ T son Augustus ( Mr . Gordon ) , portion his rnWtl ?! ^ ls tended of Augusts ' ) Alice ( Miss HnghS ? afldSl " himself and genial Mrs . Burr ( Mrs ? Sigh M t 5 ^ in comfort during the evening of thei / daj ^ new-fledged medical man has just arrived fr JLondon , his diploma hangs upon the wall hfvr Samson ' s much-loved trophy , the porter ' s knot anl the happiness of the circle is all but V ^ plete However , a little cloud of care ; S » on the brow of Augustus . A fast friend /*/ Scatter ( Mr . G . Vining ) , Who has beSTfe SS ? of the student ' s ruin , follow 8 him , and it tranS from their conversation that our hero has left wT a ^ PAnfflhooa nnaofftn / 1 Z * + 4-. n *¦•> .. j »« ... lll * KS acceptances unsettled in to nd that
wn , a his onl * chance of extrication from debt is a merceS marriage , which the said Scatter has some faint nr 7 spectof contracting . The shade deepens ero lan » for Scatter receives the news that his hopes are vain " and departing , is succeeded by a mysterious visitor Mr . Stuoot /^ Smirk ( Mr . II . Wigan ) , who obtains a private interview with Samson . This character turns out to be a bill-discounting lawyer , who holds younsr Burr's acceptances for 2 O 00 / . The unhappy father i * at first incredulous , then furio us , and at last shidcen down . To save his son from prison he promises payment , which entails certain ruin aud the utter destruction of the family happiness ; and to dear him once and ' for all of his vicious circlehe effecta
, his immediate departure for Australia with Captain Oalham ( Mr . G . Cook ) , whose ship is on the point of sailing . The fiction invented by the old man to account for his gr , ief , enlist the sympathies of his friend the-sea-captain , and procure the preparation of her son ' s kit by Mrs . Burr , without suspicion on her part that she is about to lose her greatest treasure , is most delicately and successfully . worked out by both author and actor . The act drop descends upon Btirr ' s breaking to his wife and niece that he had been speaking a parable , that their Au ;; : istv . s is gone , anil that he himself , a penniless old . ,. must -return to the barrow and the porter ' s knot .
Between the first'arid second acts two jcars are supposed to have elapsed , and we find poor old Burr at work in a smock-frock , arid with a porter ' ^ ticket <_> ii his breast , hearing passengers' baggage from the packets to the railway station , at which Scatter , now a policeman ,-us working out his reformation . Alice is devoting her young life to the solace of the sorrowing couple . Augustus has never'been heard of , but a . charming' incident is imported into the story by the joint concoction by Alice and Samson of a lettyr ^
importing to be written by him to his mother . The reading of this gives room for sonic beautiful acting , and the interest of the situation is increased by the discovery of a postscript-which Alice has addcl without Samson ' s knowledge , advising the e nclosure of a ten-pound note . Samson dares not divulge the inuocent fraud , ami his wife will not allow him to send back the gift ; so he is compelled to accept in most eloquent silence the generous offering of the devoted girl's little savings .
They have liardly composed their difficulty alraut this when Augustus returns in the flesh . His ship has been picked up drifting at sea , dismastul , ana with loss of all hands except himself and the . captain . He makes himself known in the first place to his mother and Alice , and subsequently , to his lutiier . For his gallant devotion to the shipowners interests , they make him on the tpot a partner in their urm , and the piece concludes «» riglc with the assurance including
of future happiness for the whole party , even the good-natured , liair-braincd Scatter , wj . XUibson ' a delineation of Savuson Burr id masterly doyond description . A wilderness of words would no convey the delicate touches of pathos and 1—ho adds to the skilful drawing of the . tale ted nu thor . Seldom was a drama put upon the JJ might have bean more easily spoilt by > n « « 0 ereiw actors , but few will be found to say that ; n . mrmm fined whole could have boon prcsentd . 1 o « noble pride of Burr and his wife in 'V ? ' ffl ( SS »> . «( .. ann ,, n « i liia nrosnects ; the old man s ngwy
In tho ' . ccno with " tho W ^* " ^^ internal . struggle while he prepares the ^{ JgJ , of the prodigal ! his gentle resignation to hard lajgr in hifl age , chequered with faint gloam " ot »>» won for this great actor and his author tJm-jce u » of applause , their hearers' tears . Mr- ^ 'bXrrny worthily supported by his company . Mrs . * was simple -and tender us f ^* ^ - JIjc 0 V int , gave an excellent photogrnph of a scapegrato g ^ and the Smoothly Smirk of Mr . Horace Wigan *« gem in its way . Tho first c *<» P « ° " i ° wUl » take to the piece , is tho extreme do cw > which this latter gentleman is made up as «\ "M
man . Having once conceived the WP ™ " 11 ^ out reference to a p laybill ) that * ° *** % WyS % cn of the » thirty-nine times "rticled clorK , J y . confounded to find him a more P ^^ f w o > uJe ° J It was , however , nn exquisite » «* n l '' liont n (| Optcd again to the absurd and unnecessary expodionj' i u to * enrich tho hero , and to «» » ¦ J SJ--BMotfbrought about . A play wrlght of our cuuc
HAYJURK . EI THEATRE . The engagement of Mr . and Mrs . Charles JMathews was brought to a close on Saturday last , when the comedy of Tlie Belle ' s Stratagem was produced with but qualified success . Sheridan ' s famous Critic was the afterpiece selected , in which Air . Mat-hews afforded unmixed delight by his spirited delineation of the two characters Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff . On Monday , Mr . Uuckstone , who has for some time been provincialising , made his reappearance on what we might almost term his native boards , accompanied by Miss Reynolds . We are heartily glad to welcome them both . Tho latter especially , from whom we have been too long separated , will prove a great relief . The play selected for tbe reappearance of tho wanderers was The Rivals . Mr . Buckstone
was , of course , the Bob Acres , Miss lieynolds Lgdia Languish , Mr . Chippendale Sir Anthony Absolute . Tho Spanish Dancers appeared " to follow" in a new ballotdivertissement , called The Influence of Grace ; and , to conclude the evening ' s amusements , that lengthy and long-descended baronet , Sir William Don , who , like the majority of gentlemen amateur actors , mysteriously considers his mission to have been low comedy , appeared as John Small , in Whitebait at Greenwich . This gentleman makes great capital out of his height , which contrasts laughably with tho shortness of little Mr . Clark , and , on the occasion in question , brought into action such an amount of genuine good-humour and desiro to please , that it would he unfair to say that ho was unsuccessful . On tho contrary , he excited a good deal of hearty laughter as well as good feeling , and was called bofore the curtain after his labours . WBWMTJT -rwr r- i
NWA ^ H | tV ^ t % ((« ¦¦•»<»*¦ — — - O&VJIPIO THJBATttE . A two act drama called The Porter ' s Knot—re-written , it is said , from tho French by Mr . John Oxenford , hut to all appearance English pur sang- * -was produced here on Thursday evening . So pure and healthy is the sentiment , so simple the tale , of such daily occurrence in every rank of soctoty tho incident , and so appositely do Mr . Iiopson' and his company hold up the mirror before the audience , that we are warranted In predicting for T / te Porter ' s Knot a more than ordinary extent of popularity . The scene of the first act is laid in the cosy cottnge of one Satnton Burr , a retired porter , who has scraped
Untitled Article
The ParentsCabinet of Amusement . Part I . Smith , Elder , and Co . Wood Engraving of the Lord ' s Supper . J . S . Yirtuc and Co . The Child ' s own Toy-maher . By Ebenezer Landella . Imp . 8 vo . Griffith and Farran . Tales frow Blactopood . No . IX . Blackwood and Sons . The Maiden Sisters . A Tale . By the Author of " Dorothy . " 8 vo . J . W . Parker . JDavid and Samuel . Poems . 8 vo . By John Robertson . Seeley , Jackson , and Seeley . Gallery of Nature . Parts I . and II . W . and R . Chambers . The Virginians . No . XIV . Bradbury and Evans . Charles Knight ' s History of England . Part XXXV . Bradbury and Evans .
MAGAZINES . JBlackioQod for December . Xfy-aser ditto . Dublin University ditto . Titan ditto . The Art-Journal ditto . The Wew Quarterly ditto . The National ditto . English Woman ' s Journal ditto . Eclectic Review ditto . Ze FoUet ditto . Routledge ' a Shakespeare . Parts XXXI . and XXXII . — - » Cymbeline . "
7 BOOKS RECEIVED . Three Visits to Madagascar in 1853 , 1854 , and 1855 . By the Rev . William Ellis , E . H . S . 8 vo . . J . Murray . A Treatise on Hysterical Affections . By George Sate . 8 vo . John Churchill . Noble Deeds of Women . By Elizabeth Starling . 8 vo . H . G . Bohn . The Autocrat of the ' Breakfast Table . Fcap . 8 vo . By P . W . Holmes . Alex . Strahan and Co . A . Collection of Public Statutes relating to Probate and Divorce . 1858 . Edited by James Bigg . Simpkin and Marshall . . A Collection of Public Statutes relating to Joint-Stock Companies . 1558 . Edited by James Bigg . Simpkin and Marshall .
Untitled Article
The Poksh BBVOLimoj * . —Monday being the anniversary of the revolution of 1880 , a number of roAigeos celebrated the event by holding a meeting at St . Martin ' shall . Major Soulyndsk , who acted as chairman , M . JSwltoslandski , and tho other speakers , impressed upon tho audience that it made little difference to them ¦ whether a Nicholas or an Alexander occupied tho throne of Russia ! It was , they said , to bo regretted that France , tho power which of all others had in times gone by boftiended Poland , should now be leagued with thoso -who irwo trampling upon tho oppressed nationalities . It tra » , however , a matter of pride to them that Poland , in struggling to break her chains , was par excellence the champion of liberty .
., . /I≫ A A X ^Ntrw Cnttrtotranentjs —?
Ctjeatra rrtrb Ctrtertatttmrtite
Untitled Article
1318 THE LEADER . [ No . 4 & 4 , Degkmbpir 4 , 185 S
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 1318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2271/page/14/
-