Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-03

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All correspondence on business must be prepaid
the Hon. Mrs Norton, (who is not "Lady Car.
oline Norton" as ! see some American papers
miscalling her,) Bently has issued a shilling
edition Of her early poem, "The Undying
One" .s..
Bently further announces great change in
the price of all new and original novels and ro'
mances to be published by him, from the first
day of October. Instead of charging half
guinea volume for three volume work, he
will charge that sum for the whole, or 3s. Cd.
per volume. He calculates on greatly IN
creased sale compensating him for this reduc'
ton. II is something to knock down, I'm one
fell swoop," twothirds of the price of books.
Bently has been very successful with new
work, BY Mrs Colin Mackenzie, called q Life in
the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana." It's
record, to o certain extent, OF missionary Ia
Dor and adventure, mingled with military lie
and glimpses at the interior life of the Hin
doos-a book, in short, which you can scarcely
lay down when once you are fairly in for its
perusal.
| w. H. Bartlett, the artist, announces Me.
MORALS Of the Pilgrim Fathers" with 80 Illus
trations on steel and lots of wood cuts; and the
author of Eye Maiden and Married Life Of
Mary POWELL announces "Chery and Violet,
Tale of the Great Plague"
Lockhart has resigned the editorship of the
| Quarterley Review. The salary was FL 500
year, besides separate payment as TO any other
contributor, for any articles from bis pen.
/ Ill-health is the cause of his retirement. He
has saved money, and is auditor OF the Dutchy
| of Cornwall, with fl,20O year. His succes.
sor will be the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, of Booton,
who has been Quarterly Reviewer for some
time.
Charles Dickens is going to read two of his
Christmas tales ("The Carol" and "The
Cricket on the Hearth for the benefit Of the
Literary and Scientific Institute at Birming.
ham.
The opening numbers of Thackeray's serial
| (aThe Newcomes") has appeared, and every
one is reading it. The illustrations, by Doyle,
are vastly superior to Thackeray's own rude
mannerisms. The story is prefaced by dull par.
aphrase of one of La Fontaine's fables, put for.
ward as sort of apology for Thackeray's perpet-
ually showing the dark side of human nature.
Then comes in Colonel Newcome and his young
son, who first figure in the Coal Hole, or some
such classic ground, and are there encountered
and disgusted by Captain Costigan, late Of
"Pendennis." This chapter is very clever. 1t
is followed by running back through the an.
tecedents of the Newcomes, much in the old
style, and concluded little clumsily think,
by several epistles, which tell, in roundabout
way, what the narrative should have done in
half dozen sentences On the whole, the
Newcomes promise pleasant company
THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL.
Meyerbeer's new opera, to be produced at
the Opera Comioue in Paris, before Christmas,
ia to be called the "Star Of the North"
{" L'Etoile du Nord," and has already been
cast.
| Some talk of German operate company
visiting Paris. The experiment, when tried
before, has always failed.
A report is out, for the hundredth time, that
Jenny Lind will come out again, next season,
at Covent Garden, in opera. There is little
chance Of that. BY all accounts she is happy
/ and contented in her private life.
Madame Sontag, it would appear, by London
| green-room report, will not return to England
until the beginning Of 1855, when she will for
mally take leave Of the profession, and her last
public singing in Paris is to be during the
worlds fair which Louis Napoleon is now get
| ting up Sontag appeared on the Partisan
| boards in 1926, when she was twenty-thres
| wears DID, In 1928, when she was such IA
yorite with the Londoners, she was Countess
Ross though performing under her maiden
name Sontag, born in 1902, is now turned
ifty--a human evergreen ..".
Grisi and Mario, as ! predicted months ago,
will not now visit America. Grisi was afraid
of the long voyage, so severely is she martyr
to sea sickness, but this might have been borne,
| if she were sure of her money. The idea was,
| las we understand it here,) not to give her
! $4,000 in advance, but to pay her out of the
proceeds to be realized in America by the Joint
yocalism of Mario and herself
Grisi and Mario (who are in the hands OF
Cramer & Beale, the contractors for julien in
| America) make their last appearance in Scot.
laud October Is, at Edinburgh. Hitherto this
farewell tour has been extremely lucrative.
4 They perform on October at Birmingham, at
| Machins concert ,.#.
| Rachel is said to have obtained years leave
! of absence from the Theatre Francois in Paris,
and leaves in December for ST. Petersburg
There the Gar will appropriate "a 900 towards
paying French company with whom she can
play, and is to give fl6,OoO to herself. In pre-
sents, also, she may count on 1000 more. A
nice fortune for twelve months triumphs.
Louisa Pyne and William Harrison-the pret.
tiest and the heaviest singers on the English
stage-(the lady having the beauty,) commence
theatrical tour this month. Sims Reeves has
no particular engagement-'cause why-he IN.
ssts, as first tenor, on his wife, who sings mode
rately well, being the prima donna.
G. V. Brooke, whose success at Drury Lane
has really been very great, was entertained, last
Monday, at complimentary dsieuner given by
some fifty dramatic people and amateurs, at the
Coal Hole, in the Strand. strange place,
you will say; but then, I. E. Smith, the Drury
Lane lessee, was proprietor Of this tavern before
he became manager, and has an interest in it
yet, now that "Chief Baron Nicholson" rules
the roast therein. Mr. Smith stated, what is
fact, that the receipts at Drury Lane theatre
have been greater than a. any period during
the last twenty-five years. He then presented
Brooke with diamond ring, and handsome
dirk, to be used in playing Hamlet
/ Charles Kean re-opens the Princess's on the
10th, with "Sardanapalus. He has two new
play. by Lowell, (author o." The Wife's Secret
for which, three years ago, he paid $500. Why
not produce them?
Shakespeare at the Surrey, Miss Romers
opera company having gone. Creswick A.
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