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THE WIZABD AT THE LYCEUM. ^Professor" An...
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At the Haymarket, The Man of Many Friend...
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Human Longevity.—It is positively surpri...
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Young Dumas On Love And Sentiment. Le Ro...
^^^ gCT ^^" maES A man « a sentinel , not a lover ; and demand ? Sfr $ ^ M %$ Wg' * «*& :: tQ dc ,. * ' To tqifi he replies- " True ; but I Sdr ^ lS ^ W S ^ o e . wto make love the great question of their life ,-SSflt'nifc ^ - ^ * ° those , " he adds , with lofty scorn , & who see nothing in liwe ^ ufe pleasure , an amusement , or a necessity * they ^ SSS ^ SunVas ^ ha ^ ar aH ^ n ^ he material of all his works from the society * t I ^ W & $ ic &* W & $ & && and v i cious young men who regard the ¦ ttuarti 4 * Sre < ia and We Beis de Boulogne as the proper theatres for human ambition . Hitherto be * has , shown very remarkable talent in his pictures ; tfffiik ^ Mj ^ ^ ct i ^ ) pi & diier '' and the painter ' s moral feeling , you his ( Tune the tone
cannot but marvel at power . In Le Roman Femme rema » 6 s * sid ^ isi * e a ^ e ¥ er , and the talent is quite mediocre . The book 19 £ dmm 6 iipfe * cein its incidents ( except in the mam incident , which is repulsive & ha ^ uiitfu >) ftn ^ ^<) r ^ ' ithan cotombnplace in its characters . Perhaps no parts . i >? the ^ oilc . are ^ ^ jmoreaniusihg than those which attempt the portrayal & senSmaent ., The ^ French are an ^ affectionate people , and as fond of their par | erijtB 4 s q $ ^^ and novels one would fuppoge ^ tfiat , they ; had . no sincere love fpr , their mothers , so ludicrously factitious is their employment xitmamb-e . , Thisis-very striking in young Dumas . He tries to make the mother " a religion "—but it is the religion of a gant j ' aune . It happens to many men to lose their mothers early in life . The loss is sprious enough to dispense with affectation . But who makes of that
loss a passe" de dbuleurs ? ' Who grows pale mourning the loss of a mother he never knew ? In Le Roman < Tune Femme the hero lost his mother when he was a twelvemonth , old . The heroine * looking at her portrait , asks whose portrait it'jsj ; of course , a . pathetic scene ensues . She asks him if he had never known his mother- " 'No , Mademoiselle . ' There was in that simple phrase " aJ wtiple life of sadness . " This pathetic fact at once establishes Ssympaffiy : bet ; ween the young gentleman and the lady , for " she had surprised , in that one word— "It is my mother '—such an accent of sadness and regret , that' she said to herself : * The man who regrets and suffers thus must haw . ariQbtejuiart & y And she did her Utmost to make him . forget the sadness \? hicjblike . A . clp ^ djvftom . tinie to time darkened hisbrow . "
, ' Thisi ' is a specinien of la religion de la mere ! . After that , we are not surprised to hear a young marquis ( who by the way has not previously menkbned hm n 46 thet > exclaim iri « he exaltation of self-sacrifice : " Marie , is ihere any ^ tieanS ifco ; mak e you happy ? For you I will give my life , mjr blood , -mysouUi Tosave you I would insult the name of my mother . Npr are we suirprised wlien the same Marie , about to elope from her husband , tells her lover that for him she is "to quit all , my father , the room in which my mother died , my husband , my child . " This may be very pretty sentiment at the Maison Dore ' e , but elsewhere it is more odious than eynicism .
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The Wizabd At The Lyceum. ^Professor" An...
THE WIZABD AT THE LYCEUM . ^ Professor" Anderson , the Wizard of the North , & c , & c , & c , has quite token the shine put of the G . V . B . achievements of Mr . E . T . Smith , by His electric light over the portico of the Lyckum : and his preliminary announcements , conceived in the highest style of New England eloquence , surpass the wildest flights of the great discoverer of Tom Thumb and Washington ' s Nurse . For weeks past the portrait of " the Professor ^ ' has sjtared , at every tavern and gin-shop window in London , at every railway station within twenty miles of town , at almost every turn where the most passing glance could possibly be extorted from the eye of business or leisure . Nothing has * been omitted that could lend significance and solemnity to the inauguratibii of his new Temple of Magic by the Professor , who has astonished the weak minds of all the Potentates of Europe , and ( we have no sort of doubt of the fact ) who did once lend H . I . M . Napoleon the Third twenty pounds , - although his Imperial Majesty has taken the trouble to inform Europerthrough the columns of the Moniteur , that the trifling
accommodation alluded : to never took place , and was a mere hallucination of « ' Dr . . Anderson ' s . " Let us say at once that we have no desire to cavil at the lavish abundance of the Professor's " posters . " It is only when the r ^ al . G- V . B . falls short of the capital letters in the bills that a slight caveat is permissible . In the Professor ' s case , his . fame has been so wel ] and' justly acquired , and his entertainment is really so capital in quality , tlkfe if His bills do not " repay perusal" to busy people , at all events an efcng at the Lyceum repays the anticipations excited by such a prodigious ftouVish of trumpets . The Professor has fitted up the Lyceum most effectively . There is something really sumptuous about the decorations of the stage whereon the Professor , monarch of all he surveys , practises his > magic arts . It has the look of a temple , of a laboratory , of a flirnitufe establbhtnont . Across the centre of the pit , and all
r ^ wqd , the ' house on a level with the dress circle , a communication has , bean established , by means of a tramway and a platform , enabling , ; the Professor to bring a large and influential portion * of the audience into a more direct and personal relation to his experiments . Indeed , in one instance , the Professor conducts an experintent under the auspices of tho ladies and gentlemen in the gallery , in imo very midst of whom a , table " raps" and a bell rings at his call and bidding . This participation of the audience in the business of ' the stage gives a very pleasant " at homo" character to tho ontertainmont , and creates ft sort of compound interest out of doore which makes up for the one groat
difficulty in these delassements magiques—the difficulty , we mean , of sustaining the feeling of astonishment . We need not here relate in detail the various wonders accomplished by the Professor . Few of the tricks are new , many of them are familiar , but even those which we have long since found out excite the old wonder and the old delight from the ease and dexterity with which they are performed . We had small sympathy with a sententious Scotch gentleman who sat behind us in the stalls , ^ nd who , kept up a rUnniijgfireof nil admirari commentary on the performance . We found his explanations far more difficult than the tricks . Perhaps we too know that the lady ' s handkerchief is not the one we see torn up , nor her bonnet burnt , nor her ring conjured into an egg . Perhaps we know how the little boy
is extinguished , and can discourse acutely on the apparatus which supports him in the air during the mesmeric process , when he is as wide awake as you and I are ; perhaps we know the interior economy of the magic bottle , and how the Professor changes it . Still , with all our wonderful acuteness , the dexterity of the sleight of hand is a great deal more marvellous , and the natural propensity of our fellow-creatures to deception and amazement is a delightful study . There is one part of the entertainment in which the Wizard ( who puts down an unruly gentleman in the pit with all the courtly grace of a Van Amburgh , and whose manner seems to be made up of a profound contempt for his fellow-creatures and an imposing familiarity ) strikes into the attitude and the tone of an eminent tragedian ,
and that is when lie very legitimately and forcibly denounces the ravages of the Spirit-rapping imposture . He says that he put two thousand dollars on a table in the Metropolitan Hall , New York , as a prize to any Spiritual Medium who would make the table " rap" without his leave . And not a single Medium offered . He found the churches and chapels deserted , and the lunatic asylums filled with the victims of an imposture he felt it to be a solemn duty to expose . And he did expose it most triumphantly by a practical application of his formula— " No rapping without an apparatus ! " We only wonder the Professor escaped unlynched the
wrath of the Spirits who have been driven across jthe Atlantic to find fresh believers in the aristocratic homes of England . Many of our readers will not forget the part the Leader took in exposing the delusion when all the world of London believed in it : still we are happy to give Professor Anderson full credit for his visible and complete turning of the tables upon their inventors . At the Lyceum , the Professor makes a table on the tramroad in the centre of the pit , a bell suspended from the ceiling , and an automaton on the stage " rap" answers to his questions by an application , we believe , of the magnetic telegraph .
In order to be critical , as well as descriptive and discursive , let us confess that Professor Andbhson has not the quiet finesse of Robebt Houdin , nor the distingue grace of the Chevalier Bosco in the manner of delivering his experiments . He is a little stagey , a little too much addicted to gesticulation . On the other hand , perhaps he is a better judge than we can be of the public taste : and , after all , these things are only the signboard , not the man . In conclusion , we can heartily commend the entertainment to the attention of our readers : all grown-up London will go to see it till the Christmas holidays come , and then what delighted audiences of " the young people !"
At The Haymarket, The Man Of Many Friend...
At the Haymarket , The Man of Many Friends , a three-act comedy from the fruitful pen of Mr . Stibung Coyne , has been produced with a degree of success , justified by the smartness and dexterity of the writing , and by the lively acting . Mr . Buckstone is the herb of the piece . La Pebea Nena has reappeared . At the Adelphi , Victorine , the drame so celebrated in the dciys of Yates , has been revived with an entirely new cast , but with great effect . The acting of Mrs , Leigh Murray as the heroine is both delicate and forcible , and the general distribution of the parts is as good as the present stage can afford , which , after all , in spite of old stagers , is not a bad compliment .
Druby Lane continues English opera with merited favour , and Mr . James Anderson , with Mrs . J . W . Waucack , Mr . Stuakt , and others , has been specially engaged to do the heavy business in the old-fashioned lyric dramas which our fathers have heard . The Slave is a sort of novelty to the young generation ; but it is a consolation to find that the threatened revival of Macbeth with tho whole of Locke ' s music has been abandoned by the general council of the directors us inconsistent with their operatic programme . There is no knowing what we may expect after the operatic season ! Sadler ' s Wells reopens for tho regular season to-night .
Human Longevity.—It Is Positively Surpri...
Human Longevity . —It is positively surpriaing in tho present day , whon tho principles of longevity arc reduced to so simple on expression as the observance ol tho Natural laws , to and what erroneous opinions our forefathers entertained upon so important a subject . It was especially an erroneous belief that tho loss by perapiration abbreviated lift . Lord Bacon , who distinguished , p hilosophically ^ ugn , three intentions for the prolongation of life—retardation of consumption , and prop reparation and renovation of what begins to grow old—was yet so ^^ ln ^ uonwtij idea of tho relation of what ho calls predatory influences and , P * vbv dwelling in as to believe that tho ambient air could bo rendered less P "" ° j ^ . off from the cold climates , in cavos , mountains , and anchoritos * ceJla 5 or , un m 1 Ontfl without body by a dense skin , tho feathers of bird * , or the uso < rf ° »\™« mJ lldod that tho aromatios . Upon tho name inutukon principle Maui e " ulfl d thftt tr 0 Cf , HVod body ehould bo covered with pitch . And Cardon ^^ JJJJSJ longer than animals bocauao they took no oxoroiao J— New juon y
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08091855/page/21/
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