20 JANUARY 1855, page 9

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The performance of Louis XI by Mr. Charles Kean, in a new ver- sion of M. Casimir Delavigne's tragedy, produced at the Princess's Theatre, is likely to form an epoch in the......

The New "oratorio."

Mrs. Mounscy Bartholomew's oratorio, The Nativity, performed on Wednesday evening under Mr. Mullah's direction at St. Martin's Hall, contains many beauties, and does the......

Topics Of The Diy.

THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. Paimix - ENT meets next week, and as yet the country has no well-grounded conjectures, such as generally may be formed before the session opens, as to......

In The Earlier Works Of Goethe Will Be Found A

dialogue in Lucian's style, entitled " Gothe, Heiden, und Wieland." This jeu d'esprit is celebrated in the history of German literature, for it led to an unpleasant feeling......

Answer To A Correspondent.

The comedy in which "Mrs. Grundy" is mentioned is Speed Me Plough, written by the late Mr. Thomas Morton, and produced at Covent Garden in 1800. "Mrs. Grundy" is not one of the......