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TANGLE,A STORY OF LIFE’S PERPLEXITIES.BY MBS. C. L. BALFOUE,AUTHOR OF “SKETCHES OF ENGLISH .LITERATURE,” “ WORKING WOMEN,“WOMEN OF SCRIPTURE,” o„ o.“The web of our life la of mingled yarn, good and ill together,”—Shakespeare.CHAPTER XVII.NORTHWARD.Edinburgh sometimes puts off its gravity at the conclusion of the sporting and tourist season, and tempts the passing traveller to remain and enjoy, not only the grandeur of the finest capital in Europe, as far as natural advantages are concerned, hut the gaieties that enliven the setting in of winter. In the autumn we are referring to, there were Shakspearian readings; a series of Historical lectures; and an Operatic troupe of the most eminent artistes. ‘ Every section of the public seemed to be catered for: there wore celebrities of the pulpit, the stage, and the lecture-room; and all, particularly the first, had good audiences. London is too vast, its commercial element too disproportionate, for the stranger to discern anything but its general movement—a boiling cauldron, whose bubble and steam send up a clamour and cloud that often conceals what is within. But stately Edinburgh lets its scholastic, theologic’, critical, and artistic phases of life be seen. Like the Athenians of old, they are ever inquiring of some new theme; and strictly defined as the religious features of the city are, and economical as her denizens are known to be, yet the celebrities of the theatre and the concert-room have seldom had reason to
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London Ladys Newspaper and Pictorial Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 29, 1861
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