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...ions begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...ovinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Ba... ...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ... Mademoiselle Mars. By calling to mind the most charming Celimene that the Theatre-Francais ever had, an excellent idea of Severine Grevin’s appearanc... ... actual position. Hence his real strength. Strong men are always their own critics. Under the Restoration he had made the most of his former condition... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...nd expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrath of critics. In presence of this diffi- culty, the author would find himself gr... ...Oh! that religious works ought not to be delivered over to the judgment of critics, or to the gaze of a public rotten with scepticism; they ought, he ... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ...nt the servant threw open the door and announced dinner. After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements that Parisians miss the...

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...uld have been almost impossible to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United States, and had held a tenth part of our m... ...the allied peoples who might come to our aid to judge us by what they saw if Germany held our Atlantic sea board, with all its great cities, together ... ...heir first moment of reaction, have said to themselves: “Well, after all, the Germans we knew at home were easier people to get on with.” The answer is... ...er people to get on with.” The answer is not far to seek. For one thing, the critics in question knew the Germans at home, in our home, where they had... ...it a weakness, and our own opposite trait a superiority, we must be sure, as critics say, that we “know the context”; we must be sure that what appear... ...e ally national institutions as the French Academy, and the French national theatre, the Th´ eˆ atre Franc ¸ais. The history of the former, in partic... ...ore forming an opinion of the illustrated “funny papers,” of the fiction, the theatres, the whole trend of French humour, irony and sentiment. Well mea... ...ake the same view of such matters, and that the Vie Parisienne,, the “little theatres” and the light fiction of France do not rep resent the average F... ...comes a pariah and a sinner. This is the Anglo Saxon point of view. How many critics of the French conception of love have taken the trouble to consid...

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...re past blushing. Our tenacity of national impressions has caused the word theatre since then to prod the Puritan nervous system like a satanic instru... ...and it was of a convenient semicircular breadth, the ladies present in the theatre retired at a signal of decorum, to peep, covertly askant, or with t... ...ewells and the Plyants ever have been praised for ingenuity in wickedness? Critics, apparently sober, and of high reputation, held up their shallow kn... ...ind hovering above congregated men and women, it has imagined nothing. The critics who praise it for its downrightness, and for bringing the situation... ...ellectual fireworks to the bumpkin squire, who came to London to go to the theatre and learn manners. Where Congreve excels all his English rivals is ... ...d they were crowned by the prize only eight times. The favourite poet with critics, in Greece as in Rome, was Menander; and if some of his rivals here... ... dozen women’s hearts conciliate the Comic Muse with the drawing of blood. German attempts at Comedy remind one vividly of Heine’s image of his countr... ... left, con- sists the fun. Jean Paul Richter gives the best edition of the German Comic in the contrast of Siebenkas with his Lenette. A light of the ... ...oethe; enough to complete the splendid figure of the man, but no more. The German literary laugh, like the timed awakenings of their Barbarossa in the...

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...ms would have roused a mutinous protest against this arrogant mandate. But Germans are generally mild and facile in their tempers; so the light was co... ...l no more burn than the leaves of a closed book. Privately, therefore, the Germans drew an inference, that Mr. Williams must have had some urgent moti... ...rticu- lar case there is seldom any reason to complain—since really out of Germany and Italy there is no city, if you except Paris and London, possess... ... cism when it will spare that effort to themselves. Thus it is that German critics become audacious and libellous. Kohl, V on Raumer, Dr. Carus, physi... ...are quoted or alluded to by Addison. Even these quotations he had from the theatre, or the breath of popular talk. Generally, if you see a line from S... ...e sections) to cite before the reader’s eye the chief pomps of the Grecian theatre, after invoking ‘the magnificent witch’ Medea, I call up Antigone t... ...bject. It is not imparity, but disparity, that divides the two magnificent theatres. Suffer me, reader, at this point, to borrow from my-self, and do ... ...itely, and restoring to our imaginations, the noblest of Grecian girls. We critics, dis- persed through the house, in the very teeth of duty and con- ... ...t must be looked on as involving a peremptory defi- ance to all succeeding critics who might hesitate between the authority of Mr. Hume at the distanc...

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...the heart of the national secrets of a great people, secrets which our own critics and diplomatists must necessarily misrepresent. Each of Turgenev’s ... ...e love which is self-sacrifice.’ Shubin frowned. ‘That’s all very well for Germans; I want to love for myself; I want to be first.’ ‘To be first,’ rep... ...d, for whist. At home he was bored; he formed a connection with a widow of German extraction, and spent almost all his time with her. In the year 1853... ...nna Vassilyevna deeply; she had been specially hurt by his once giving his German woman, on the sly, a pair of grey horses out of her (Anna Vassilyevn... ...en side by side, and, inviting all her acquaintances, would set off to the theatre or even to a masquerade; in sum- mer she would drive for a trip out... ...turing business. Pity he didn’t do it! Then Shubin began to talk about the theatre; Mr. Kurnatovsky declared and—I must confess—without false modesty,... ...w, all the while we have been here. And in the evening we are going to the theatre; I have two tickets for the stalls. They say there’s a new opera be...

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...gnorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, perhaps, b... ...an opera by Garcia that was then being played by an Italian company at the theatre in the Rue Lauvois. She was so beautiful that a Naples guardsman, h... ...ks of some great painters of Heaven. In the evening the lovers went to the theatre. This is the way of Italian life: love in the morning; music in the... ... The Fenice was crowded. The five hours of the night that are spent at the theatre fill so important a place in Italian life that it is well to give a... ...composition, wor- thy to compare with the most elaborate structures of the Germans, but never fatiguing or tiresome. “Y ou French, who carried through... ...eam of vengeance, even for a mo- ment? Handel, Sebastian Bach, all you old German masters, nay, even you, great Beethoven, on your knees! Here is the ... ...s in the in- troduction to Mose, was I not fully as much justified as your critics are when they speak of the ‘color’ in a writer’s lan- guage? Do you...

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...nal flash of happy inspiration. “I expect I shall have a box at one of the theatres to-mor- row,” he remarked carelessly; “I will call for you and M. ... ...h of June ministers are often puzzled to know what to do with boxes at the theatre; ministerialist deputies and their constituents are busy in their v... ...s to pass that the best seats are filled at this season with heterogeneous theatre-goers, never seen at any other time of year, and the house is apt t... ...sed to the pantheism of one who is still living to bear an honored name in Germany. Meyraux was the friend of that “Louis” of whom death was so soon t... ...- riage, T ullia.” “Yes, but the Duke is waiting below in it, and he has a German Minister with him.” “Ask the Duke and the Minister to come up,” said... ...ter with him.” “Ask the Duke and the Minister to come up,” said Nathan. “A German? They are the ones to drink, and they listen too; he shall hear some... ...ook, and such another paper made a vigorous reply.’ Then you criticise the critics ‘C’ and ‘L’; pay me a passing compliment on the first article in th...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ... good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German sausages, strong of garlic, sliced and eaten with fresh green figs; ... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...: the opera house of Genoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatre. A company of comedians were acting there, when we arrived: and soo... ... the Governor, in all public or semi public entertainments. They are lofty critics in consequence, and infinitely more exacting than if they made the ... ...o me, too, that the indiscriminate and deter mined raptures in which some critics indulge, is incompat 134 Pictures from Italy ible with the true a... ... with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to thei... ... which is perched on the steep and lofty hill above the little town of San Germano, and is lost on a misty morning in the clouds. So much the better, ...

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... transmit my orders or translate my censures. And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own un-... ...d. (Remember that the last third of my road, about a mile, is all made out of a bridle-track by my boys—and my dollars. )It was supposed a white man h... ...lked late, and it was arranged I was to write up for Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission Ho... ...re. The house had been ne- glected for near a week, and was a hideous spot; my wife’s ear and our visit to Apia being the causes: our Paul we prefer n... ... seen a fire in a hearth; he could not look at it without smiles, and was always anxious to put on another stick. We entertained him with the fairy ta... ...ise has no attractions for any of us. I don’t know if I remembered to say how much pleased I was with Across the Plains in every way, inside and out, ... ...he income that really comes in of itself while all you have to do is just to blossom and exist and sit on chairs. Think how beautiful it would be not ...

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...ed Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry, signifying subje... ...lause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national litera... ...pplied the phrase. ‘Only, the moment old Colney moral- izes, he’s what the critics call sententious. We’ve all a parlous lot too much pulpit in us.’ ‘... ...unhap- piest ventures. He had relied and reposed on the dicta of newspaper critics; who are sometimes unanimous, and are then taken for guides, and ar... ... smoked: Mr. Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. Dr. Schlesien had his German views, Colney Durance his ironic, Fenellan his fanciful and free-lan... ...y; and oddly, it contributed to his comelier air. Flute [This would be the German Blockeflute or our Recorder. D.W .] in hand, his mouth at the blow-s... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i... ...r lips—too much a resurrection smile. There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Mem-...

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...r northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern... ...gin, if she happened to be aware of it. The reason lurks here:—In the word theatre, is contained an evanescent image of a great audience—of a populous... ...e chapter. And yet, from the blindness or inconsiderate examination of his critics, this latent wisdom—this cryptical science of po- etic effects—in t... ...r to the charge preferred against him by Dr. Johnson, and by so many other critics, who had not sufficiently penetrated the latent theory on which he ... ... the extent of his own igno- rance, though doubtless founded upon what the Germans call an einseitig or one-sided estimate, there was however that sor... ... as belonging to our human condition, were not in reality objective, (as a German philosopher would express himself,) or laid in the nature of things,... ...tain degree of human sympathy with the dread tumults going on in that vast theatre—a conscience- haunted mind. So far he stands on common ground; but ... ...; whilst to him the large deputation from female Megara furnished an extra theatre for the inspection of Greek beauty. ‘There was no river mouth visib... ... sense even more outra- geous, Pope had not the excuse of those effeminate critics, sometimes found amongst ourselves, who recognise no spe- cial divi...

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...t asses,’ may not be absolutely objectionable, for transparency is, as the critics rightly insist, meritorious in a composition. And, according to the... ...curately divided from the inhabitants of the land they hold. In Italy, the German, the Czech, the Magyar, the Croft, even in general instances the Ita... ...ir, is this opera girl calling herself Vittoria? I have a lecture for you. German women don’t forgive diversions during courtship; and if you let this... ...himself; and he repeated words to the same effect to his companion, in bad German. ‘Eh? Y ou would promote him to another epaulette?’ laughed Captain ... ...hink you can do something, because you read books and frequent the talking theatres—fourteen syllables to a word. Mother of heaven! will you never lea... ...ens the skies!’ and immediately appended: ‘It is destined to suffocate the theatres!’ Pausing as before a splendid vision: ‘Money—let it go like dust!... ...the general vomitorium, but Carlo and Luciano held her firmly by them. The theatre was a rageing darkness; and there was barely a light on the stage. ...

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..., with a hand on the hip and a cigar in the mouth. These must be the chief critics at the great bull-fight house yonder by the Alameda, with its scant... ...; a host of jingling barouches, more miserable than any to be seen even in Germany, were collected at the landing-place; and the Greek drivers (how qu... ...alliance as this?) perpetually pulling and tugging at me, away from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a ... ... despise such a homely ornament. I have got a map with squares, fountains, theatres, public gar- dens, and Places d’Othon marked out; but they only ex... ...ty which will only bear to be looked at from a distance, like a scene in a theatre. What is the most beautiful nose in the world, if it be covered wit... ...Constantinople to-morrow. We had music on board all the way from Smyrna. A German commis-voyageur, with a guitar, who had passed unnoticed until that ... ... gauze curtains lifted away, one by one, before a great fairy scene at the theatre. This will give idea enough of the fog; the difficulty is to descri...

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...ing; but his residence in London gave him the opportunity of attending the theatres. With these he was so captivated, that he wrote a kind of play , w... ...alue of this reception is considerably lessened, when we remember that the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roma... ...als. T o conclude, if this volume perish, let it serve as a warning to the critics, not to take too much pains for the future to destroy such things a... ...k a part of it better spent in the enjoyments of life than in pleasing the critics. P P P P PAST AST AST AST ASTORALS, ORALS, ORALS, ORALS, ORALS, WIT... ...tters in her pride. 4 So have I known those insects fair, (Which curious Germans hold so rare) Still vary shapes and dyes; Still gain new titl... ...rth, Venus shall give him form, and Anstis 140 birth. (Believe me, many a German prince is worse, Who, proud of pedigree, is poor of purse). His weal... ...ly against the court and nobility, who encouraged only the writers for the theatre; and lastly against the emperor himself, who had con- ceived them o... ...ll will wear the bays, Our wives read Milton, and our daughters plays, T o theatres, and to rehearsals throng, And all our grace at table is a song. I... ... 60 Language, which Boreas might to Auster hold More rough than forty Germans when they scold. Cursed be the wretch, so venal and so vain: Paltry...

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... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...Philip what he saw . The ruin grew vivid with his words. He showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how bey... ... his vivid fancy he seemed to see the surging throng round the pit-door of theatres, and the glitter of cheap restaurants, bars where men, half drunk,... ... did not know whether he was more bored or nauseated. If that was what the theatre was coming to, then it was high time the police stepped in and clos... ...ge of the portrait-painter’s career when he was noticed a good deal by the critics and found a number of aristocratic ladies who were willing to allow...

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...a heaving picture, like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre, which rouses anticipations of storm, and shows readiness. Browny’s... ...ys were sorry that little Emile was off to finish his foreign education in Germany. His English was pretty good, thanks to Matey. He went away, promis... ...nd. Lord Ormont wrote intemperately. His Titanic hurling of blocks against critics did no harm to an enemy skilled in the use of trimmer weapons, nota... ... and he’s cast in penalties. Yet we know from history, in England, France, Germany, that the time of non- conformity brought out the manhood of the na... ...“Not largely, Lady Charlotte. Opportunity has been want- ing at French and German colleges.” “It’s only a large and a close and a pretty long study of... ... a month in Paris! There’s nothing doing here. And we both like the French theatre.’ ‘London will soon be filling.’ ‘Well, but—’ He stopped; for the f... ...est:—The ‘Beautiful Lady Doubtful’ of a report that had scorched her cars. Theatres, rides, pleasure-drives, even such houses as she saw standing open...

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...r, took the criti- cisms of the Slavophiles to heart; and he palliated his critics by promising to bring about in the succeeding parts of his novel th... ...in the play was to be taken by a certain Monsieur Poplevin, and another *A German dramatist (1761-1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of... ...ity, and, like the average Russian, such a de- sire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. To what the reader already knows concerning the per... ...e the lazy one a cut with his whip. “You know your business all right, you German pantaloon! The bay is a good fellow, and does his duty, and I will g... ... for articles of a smaller nature, such as visiting cards, memorial cards, theatre tick- ets, and things which Chichikov had laid by as souvenirs. Thi... ...ed Nozdrev. “And one for me as well,” added the flaxen-haired man. “At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. ... ...r luncheon, and how he called for a bottle of wine, and how he went to the theatre in the evening! In short, he did himself thoroughly well. Next, he ...

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...taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he frequented the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the oper... ...delighted beyond measure at the Ba- zaars; and in a whirl of wonder at the theatre, whither the good- natured lady took her. One day, Amelia had a hea... ... into it, in the midst of a perfect storm of sympathy. At the little Paris theatres, on the other hand, you will not only hear the people yelling out ... ...k and hide itself. I 111 Thackeray know the Misses Osborne were excellent critics of a Cash- mere shawl, or a pink satin slip; and when Miss Turner h... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...d her charmed everybody who wit- nessed his behaviour, caused the severest critics to admit how perfect a gentleman he was, and to own that his Lordsh... ...re—qui brenoit des sangviches dans la voiture,” said the courier in a fine German French. Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold...

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... spindling golden legs, and they began to talk. Condy had taken her to the theatre the Monday night of that week, as had been his custom ever since he... ...tionality goes in San Francisco); during the season Rivers took her to the theatres Monday nights, and called regularly Wednesdays and Sundays. Then t... ...he interrupted. “So I wasn’t at all prepared for what happened. During the german, before I knew it, there he was in front of me. It was a break, and ... ...e concealed about your person.” 23 Frank Norris “Huh! no, it all goes for theatre tickets, and flowers, and boxes of candy for a certain girl I know.... ...that Condy prided himself upon having discov- ered. So far as he knew, all critics had overlooked it. It is where Jukes is describing the man-trap of ...

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...marvels with his wooden sword, a jumper in and out of windows, as upon our theatre, but, as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, who... ...ch he prodigally seasoned the character of the party-coloured jester. Some critics, whose good-will towards a favourite performer was stronger than th... ...ey shook Athens with their discourses, as their theatrical works shook the theatre itself. If they turned to France in the time of Louis the Fourteent... ...hey erected the drama into an ideal place of profaneness, and spoke of the theatre as of the tents of sin. He did not mean to dispute that there were ... ...lt on what I, had said about Mr. Timmerman, as she was pleased to call the German philosopher, and sup- posed he must be of the same descent with the ... ... the service. The old general, however, who had been regularly bred in the German wars, stuck to his own opin- ion, and gave out in orders that the fi...