Ambiguous answers and old world verse in a curious column
Excerpts include a defiant late night reflection on luck and marriage, a courtroom anecdote about a spinster wife, and a string of verse and anecdotes about life, dance, schooling, and Abd el Kader's camp. The piece blends humor, poetry, and foreign dispatches with a minor wartime field note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Exeter
Marianne von R
Reittmeister
von Z
Dolly
Madame de Stael
Delphine
Langaedoc
LITHRATUR HB Mrs Wilberforce and a treacherous crime
A mixed review discusses Mrs Wilberforce and her orphans, noting a villainous lawyer and his clerk plotting Charlton’s murder in Spain. It quotes a scene in Guadix where Molesworth, Crawley, and Charlton entwine crime with moral reflections. Also reviewed is Moral and Intellectual School Book by William Martin praising its educational aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hymen
Wilberforce
Crawley
Charlton
Molesworth
Spain
Gaadix
Granada
Charlten
Lord Elmbridge
Charlon
Guadix
Posada
Chariton
Lesus
Moleworth
Melesworth
Eung
William Martin
Carter and Clark, Holbein
Martin
Fraser's Magazine April Yellowplush Correspondence
The article reviews Charles Yellowplush, claimed descendant of Mrs. Winifred Jenkins, noting his resemblance to her style. The piece tracks his evolving interest in the Letters and recaps past events including Dawkins, Drucence, and an upcoming trip to Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraser's Magazine
Yellowplush
Charles Yellowplush
Winifred Jenkins
Humphrey Clisker
Mr. Drucence
Dawkins
Paris
A Continental Tour Begins with a Humble Voyage
The narrator's master hides winnings as they plan a Parisian journey. They ride a Dover coach to Balong and endure a brutal Channel crossing in a packed pack boat. On arrival at Balong Sir Mare, customs and inn staff swarm, revealing a chaotic entry to the Continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Dawkins
Paris
Crabs
Contry
Chawie
Duceacs
Yaaster
Dover
Masater
France
Balong
Mare
Barry Cromwell
Luggitch
Hengland
Albany
Yellowplush
Balong Sir Mare
Parrendice
Orles
Hotel Mentica
Hotel de Bang
Tower of Bayble
Balong Visit Delivers Fortunes and Farce in Spring Sojourn
A rambler recalls Balong, its split Upper Hot Peal and Lower Base Veal, a bantering master and his pompous paydays. He details the town’s fashions, gambling, and social pretensions, the Parisian scheme, a stern fatherly letter, and a spoofed public quarrel over Deucence’s gambling exploits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balong
Buzivar
France
Deucence
Hotel de Bang
Rue del Ascen
Devonshire
Duke of Canterbury
Reoma
Algernon Percy Deucence
Dover
Goold
Carridge
Orbor
Fortun
Wright
Mear
Paris
Balong Bank
Dawkins
Clarks
Balospg
Peeridge
Satin
Lord Crabbs
Stranthus
Boulogee
Lord Bobtail
Earl of Crabs
Sizes Court
Ucks
Algernon
Europe
Coutta’s
Blewitt
Biewitt
Crans
P.S. Maze
Nex
Maeter
Asd
Newgat
Deucencisses
Bottamy Bay
Parrowgraf
De—e
Cenceace
Bisniss
Mr. Schwigschnaps
Currier
Review of Various 19th Century Publications and Society Reports
The excerpt surveys several periodicals and a society report. It highlights the Synopsis of Indian Intelligence as intriguing for distant audiences, praises Literary and Pictorial Repository for March, notes the Animals' Friend No. 5 as a humane tool, and critiques The Elland Meeting piece in Hood's Own for lacking taste while affirming overall liveliness and caricature in the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotes
Friends of Humanity
Read
Baily and Co
Hood
Elland
The Fair Rose of Killarney and Other Songs Review
The critique notes the tune The Fair Rose of Killarney has simple melody but faulty harmony in the first bar and suggests adding E to fix the naked fifth. The Sunny World praise praises touching poetry and tasteful arrangement. Heart that's True earns high marks for expression though concerns about consecutive fifths in bars 22 to 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Killarney
Stephen Glover
Simmple
Mrs. Norton
Miss Smith
Miss Cooke
Sterle
Sporle
Remarkable copper relief of Arbela battle exhibited in London
A high relief copper bas-relief titled Battle of Arbela depicts Alexander the Great and Darius in 331 BC. By Joseph Stratpetery from Pesth finished in 1836, the 3 by 18 inch piece shows 180 figures with vivid emotion. Seen and praised by royal figures, it is on view at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Alexandre Heilbronn
Arbela
Alexander the Great
Darius
le Brunn
Alexander
Eaca
Joseph Stratpetery
Pesth
Rim
Fatal Imprisonment for Debt Exacts Heavy Toll
A London report details the death of Mr Thorn a master tailor jailed for £140 debt after paying £100 and receiving a bill. He died in the Fleet prison amid calls for legal reform to curb imprisonments for debt as other inmates also die and the public protests simmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thorn
Whitecross-street
Fleet
Waitecross Street
Payce
Queen’s Bench
Francis Hutchingon
Farringdon-street
Clatterbuck
William Tomas Udall
Exmouth-street
Hemmings
Bere
Jaror
Stether
Great Western Steam-Ship Fires on Thames Route to Bristol
Fire aboard the Great Western Steam-Ship caused extensive damage while descending the Thames toward Gravesend. Firefighters and pumps battled the blaze. three injured and treated on a hospital ship off Greenwich. The vessel later resumed voyage to Bristol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Atlantic
New York
Brunswick
Blackwall
Thames
Great Western
Graves End
Sareasch
Sheerness
Gravesend
Mr. Brunel
River Thames
W. Fox
Greenwich
Also Mentioned on This Page
Algiers
Abd-El-Kader
Abd-el- Kader
Sultax
Abd-el-Kater
Villaneu
Muftar
Aga
Oran
Ava
Abdel-Kader
Ariza Binpin
Lithratur HB
Amiens
Parris
C. G
Old Monthly
Sherwood
Pickwick
Pickwickiaxs
Sassivel
Sporting Life
Lieut. Morrison
R.N
Parbury’s Oriental Herald
Ous
Bahar
Stapford
Asa Wycherley
Alldridge
Mainwaring
Whitmorshall
Heath
Stafford
West Bromwich
Port-au-Prince
Bayer
St. Domingo
Bartholomew de Las Casas
Cathedral
Santo Domingo
Baron de Las Cases
Ben
Haiti
Carlowassians
Nowlan
Lawrene
John
Thomas Nowlan
Larry
House of Commons
EF. Trench
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