A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 19Tri, 1832.
THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN NOVEL.—The flimsy, dull novel, full of fashion, etiquette, and polities, is superseding the fine old legend devoted to disclosing the heart and painting mind and manners. I like to have the light of fancy let in upon me through the stained glass of a gothic window, with its deep tints, its rich and mingled hues, instead of catching it through plate glass and paltry frames.
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An anonymous letter is a mode of moral murder, which, using only a pen for a poniard, and an inkstand for a bowl, poisons con- fidence, and stabs character without fear of detection.
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KING'S CONCERT Room, KING'S THEATRE.
MR. MOSCRELES has the honour to announce that his MORNING CONCERT will take place at the above room, on Friday, June 1st. MR. MOSCHELES will perform his newest compositions, and Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianofortes with MR. MENDELSSOHN.—Advt.
• * s * DEATHS.—On the 10th inst., at her residence in Abbey Street, Dublin, Mrs. MOORE, mother of the illustrious poet.
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In the House of Commons on Thursday, Sir THOMAS DENMAN made the important communication, that it was the intention of Ministers, if they returned to power, to introduce a bill for the abolition of the punishment of death, in all cases of forgery. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN took the opportunity of saying, that all parties were not agreed on the propriety of such an abolition.
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