CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3318, 9 August 1879, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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A despatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley stated that the prospect; ■of peace was Rood, but security was impossible while Gctewayo was at large; he, therefore, re-occupies Ulundi. ""Lord ' Beaconstie]d^reiteratea T>te4 Cranbrook'a views, ia: alluding .to' th* distressed condition of the agriouituraiJ[»tK and upheld the English system. The House of Commons passed through Committee a bill for establishing a oes University. All, amendment! were re* jected. " , *",.,>,.,. -. !n ,,. Sir Garnet Wolseley told the sub. 5i' tin« £ h.i ef» notto regard Cetewayo as King.-' (l he country will be gorer^,*! ttyp'opl* protected 1 by' the British Gi£ rernme'nt. ' ' - - nb h' .' Clark and Wolseley are about to*Wi: ceed to Ulandi. Newdegate adfanoea n?^ sly;^f J r Celeway^iltiyd; * Emperor of Germany. *

Since we began to dfe'serve theatres at all,] nothing has had such a run of popularity! as this- Youn'gnarid did, rich and poor,' have been amused :by it, and there is not; a wprdjiii it'i (from 1 .beginning :to end, that: can wound any sensibility. It is a piece; ; p| ?t .de^oip,usj absurdity all through, and; a; man (jan^ enjoy two hours, of jqUity"|n witnessiqg it, which will not leave.a stain• :iipM ;S'him aiiyivhpre: , It is 'simply 'delightful—pute fun—and. the most poputhat'has!"apißlare ia"oh ffib" stafej for the last tenjyears., ;We call attention? Jo ifc specially to show that fun, when it is pure, is more- popular a thousand times than when it is riot: Nothing cad be jnore evident to any man of common sense |hi|fe^ that, any admixture of unworthy elements in this play would damage its popularity. What'is true of this play is trp,e of any and every play. Ther* is no "apology whatever' for making the stage impure. Even vulgar peoplo do not seek the stage for impurity. They seek it for pleasure, and they find the purest plays Hhe most satisfactory, provided only that the pleasure-giving'elements is in them. rA playwright who is obliged to resort to teoarsa, means to win the applause of coarse Linen, convicts himself-ot" a lack of capacity for .writing a good play.—Dr "Holland, fita Sttftbner's Monthly. '