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-I'CC eigiW/4; 1852.

E XETER-HALL, THURSDAY EVEI 51 _NG,
3d Femnary, 1853.

CHARLES MACKAY, Esq., L.L.D., in the Chair.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE GENIUS AND WRITE ICS OF
THOMAS HOOD, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS,
Under the auspices of the HOOD MEMORIAL COMMIIMEE,
fur the Benefit of the Fund.
Will be given by
Mr. WILLIAM PARSONS.
The Chair will be taken at Eight o'clock. Doors open.. at
Half-past Seven.
Introductory Remarks.—Definition of true Poetry; its 'Various
manifcstations.—Orginal bent of Hood's genius, as evinced in his
earlier poem.. ; their comparative neglect.—Wit and lln mour;
Heed's genial and kindly spirit as a humourist; exuberant gs of his
comic vein ; more chastened develapment of his humour wh en freed
from uneurbed conceits.—Effects of higher aims upon his pc ers, as
shown in his later poems.—Combination of Humour and Pathos;
Hood's earnest and huge-hearted sympathy with want anti .suffer-
ing.—llis purpose of assisting to redress the social wrom is of the
age, and the eminent success of his first efforts.— Ills ent husialm
in the cause unsubdued by ill health, and arrested only by his. death.
Reserved Seats, 25.; Body of Hall, ls.
Tickets may be had of Mr. J. Watkins, Hon. Sec. to th to Hood
Memorial Committee, 36, Parliament-street; Mr. NV. Stri. dwicke,
Whittington Club, Strand; Messrs. Chapman and Hall, ' Picca-
dilly; Mr. David PORUe, Fleet-street Messrs. D'Almaine and Co.,
20, Soho-square, and 7%, Upper Charlton-street, Fitzroy- -squat° ;
Mr. Fenton, 78, Strand ; Mons. Jullien, 214, Regent-street; :Messrs.
Keith, Prowse, and Co., Cheapside ; Mr. Mitchell, Bond,-tlreet ;
Mr. Novello, 69, Dean-street, Soho ; Mr. Peachy, 108, Bish op 'agate-
street ; Mr. T. E. Purdar, St. Paul's-churchyard; Mr. Tolket'n, 27,
King William-street ; Mr. J. A. Turner, 19, Poultry, City ; b tessrs.
Wessel and Co., 229, Regent-street; Mr. Moore, 104, Bishop agate-
street ; Mr. F. Ross. 81, Great Portland-street ; Mr. May-hu• w, 27,
Little vauildford-street, Russell-square; Mr. W. Theobalds, 314,
Oxford-street; and of the Hall-keeper, Exeter-Hall.

BENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S
THEATRE. —SEASON 1853.
Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that the SEA.IIOI,I of
FRENC El PLAYS will be COMMENCED on MONDAY :next,
Jan. 31, by the engagement of Munsieur Ravel (of the 'Th.eatre
du Petals Royal —his fret appearance since the year 1844 ). The
first performance will consist of two new and arousing Vaudevilles,
entitled UN MONSIEUR QUI SUIT LES FEMMES, and YORK.; ou,
Une Recompense Honette, in both of which Mons. Ravel will ap-
pear. Mr. Mitchell has the satisfaction to submit the fell owing
List of Artistes, engaged to appear during the season :—Monsieur
Ravel, Madame Lambert (o' the Theatre do Palais Royal), Madlle.
Berlin (of the Theatre Franeats), Madlle. Luther (of the Theat re du
Gymnase—her first appearance in England), Monsieur L: Vont,
Madile. Emma Fleury (El -s,e du Conservatoire, Paris), Madlle. Page
(of the Theatre des Vanetes—her first appearance in Engl and),
Monsieur Adrlen Fede, Mons'eur Leonard, Madlle. Madeline Binh an
(cf the Theatre Frantals -her first appearance in England), and
Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Frangais). The eminent Itage-
dienne, Madlle. Rachel, is also engaged for Twelve Representations,
and will appear in Monsieur Emile Augier's successful Play oi
DIANA, at the commencement of her engagement.—During the. en-
gagement of Monsieur Ravel, at the beginning of the season, it is
intended to give Four Representations a week—on Monday, Wed-
nesday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings—the Mondays and Fridays
being, as usual, Subscription Nights.—lt is also respectfully an-
nounced that, during the Easter week, from Monday, Marcia 28
until Saturday, April 2, M. Robert Houdin will exhibit his extraor-
dinary Entertainment of Soirees Fantasiques, being his last appear-
ance in England. previous to his final retirement from his profession
—The French Plays will be resumed after Easter, on Monday, April
4. The Subscription will he arranged for Thirty Representations,. on
Mondays and Fridays, until the end of May. The favour of an e:trl3
applicat.on for Season Subscriptions is respectfully solicited at Mr.
MitcbGil's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the principal
libraries, as usual.-33, Old Bond-street, Jan. 22.