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1.Histoire des Marionettes en Europe depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.ParCharles Magnin, Member de l’Institut. Paris, 1852.
1.Histoire des Marionettes en Europe depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.ParCharles Magnin, Member de l’Institut. Paris, 1852.
2. These common Italian marionettes have travelled far. Daniel Clarke found them in Tartary, all the fashion amongst the Cossacks of the Don.—VidehisTravels in Various Countries, part I.;Russia, &c., p. 233.
2. These common Italian marionettes have travelled far. Daniel Clarke found them in Tartary, all the fashion amongst the Cossacks of the Don.—VidehisTravels in Various Countries, part I.;Russia, &c., p. 233.
3. Casperle is a comic countryman, who replaced Jack Padding on the stage of the Austrian puppet-shows, and became so popular that the principal marionette theatre of the Vienna faubourgs received the name of the Casperle Theatre, and the coin which was the price of a place in the pit was called a casperle.
3. Casperle is a comic countryman, who replaced Jack Padding on the stage of the Austrian puppet-shows, and became so popular that the principal marionette theatre of the Vienna faubourgs received the name of the Casperle Theatre, and the coin which was the price of a place in the pit was called a casperle.
4. “You have exactly caught his manner of clearing his throat and spitting, but as for his genius....”—Wallenstein’s Lager, Scene vi.
4. “You have exactly caught his manner of clearing his throat and spitting, but as for his genius....”—Wallenstein’s Lager, Scene vi.
5. The accomplished and lamented author of La Chartreuse di Parme; Le Rouge et le Noir; Rome, Naples, et Florence, &c. &c., of whose complete works a new edition is now appearing at Paris, under the editorship of his friend, M. Prosper Mérimée.
5. The accomplished and lamented author of La Chartreuse di Parme; Le Rouge et le Noir; Rome, Naples, et Florence, &c. &c., of whose complete works a new edition is now appearing at Paris, under the editorship of his friend, M. Prosper Mérimée.
6. M. Magnin here refers to an engraving at page 47 of the fifth volume of theThéatre de la Foire(1722) to prove that Punch’s humps, both in front and rear, were formerly much less prominent. It is easy to understand how, in the hands of ignorant showmen and manufacturers of puppets, that which was at first the reflection of a popular metaphor (of origin difficult to trace) was exaggerated into a senseless and scarcely ludicrous deformity.Rire comme un bossu, to laugh like a hunchback, is to the present day one of the vulgarest of French colloquial similes. It is not easy to say whence it arose, or why a hump between the shoulders should render the bearer more prone to laughter than his straighter made fellows.
6. M. Magnin here refers to an engraving at page 47 of the fifth volume of theThéatre de la Foire(1722) to prove that Punch’s humps, both in front and rear, were formerly much less prominent. It is easy to understand how, in the hands of ignorant showmen and manufacturers of puppets, that which was at first the reflection of a popular metaphor (of origin difficult to trace) was exaggerated into a senseless and scarcely ludicrous deformity.Rire comme un bossu, to laugh like a hunchback, is to the present day one of the vulgarest of French colloquial similes. It is not easy to say whence it arose, or why a hump between the shoulders should render the bearer more prone to laughter than his straighter made fellows.
7. Another strange office of the headsman, at least in some parts of Germany, was to collect the periodical fine or impost levied from houses of an infamous class. Some striking particulars of his various opprobrious functions in the Middle Ages, which the peculiar genius of the German people and their literature has environed with a ghastly mystery that at times borders on the supernatural, is to be found in a curious work, entitledDas Malefiz Buch, reviewed in Blackwood’s Magazine for February 1848.
7. Another strange office of the headsman, at least in some parts of Germany, was to collect the periodical fine or impost levied from houses of an infamous class. Some striking particulars of his various opprobrious functions in the Middle Ages, which the peculiar genius of the German people and their literature has environed with a ghastly mystery that at times borders on the supernatural, is to be found in a curious work, entitledDas Malefiz Buch, reviewed in Blackwood’s Magazine for February 1848.
8. On the 31st May M. Drouyn de Lhuys wrote to Count Walewski, the French Ambassador in London, in the following terms:—“Monsieur le Comte, as I have already several times mentioned, there is by the side of diplomatic negotiations another action to exercise, and it is the attitude assumed by the Cabinet of St Petersburg itself which has shown the necessity of it. When we knew that the army cantoned in the south of Russia was on a war footing, that it was provisioned as on the eve of a campaign—when the fleet at Sebastopol was ready to weigh anchor—when considerable purchases of wood were made for throwing bridges over the Pruth and the Danube—if all this did not indicate that hostilities were declared, it at least showed that they were approaching, and that their commencement only depended on a word. Who could guarantee us that, under the influence of a first movement, that word would not be pronounced at St Petersburg, and that, if it had been, that the city of Constantinople would be protected from acoup de main? It was a danger of this kind that we feared, and as, if it were to be realised, the game would be lost at the outset, prudence imposed on us the duty of doing everything to prevent it. In what could such a measure of foresight more resemble a provocation than did the armaments of Russia herself? Why should not France and England, for the object of maintaining the treaty of 1841, have the right of doing that which one of the Powers which signed that convention was doing with such very different designs? Such are the considerations which determined us to send our fleet to Salamis, and which we now recommend to draw closer to the Dardanelles, not to take the initiative in an aggression, not to encourage Turkey to refuse every arrangement, but to secure her against an immediate danger, and to reserve in case of need to diplomacy the resources which it would no longer have if it had to struggle againstfaits accomplis.”
8. On the 31st May M. Drouyn de Lhuys wrote to Count Walewski, the French Ambassador in London, in the following terms:—“Monsieur le Comte, as I have already several times mentioned, there is by the side of diplomatic negotiations another action to exercise, and it is the attitude assumed by the Cabinet of St Petersburg itself which has shown the necessity of it. When we knew that the army cantoned in the south of Russia was on a war footing, that it was provisioned as on the eve of a campaign—when the fleet at Sebastopol was ready to weigh anchor—when considerable purchases of wood were made for throwing bridges over the Pruth and the Danube—if all this did not indicate that hostilities were declared, it at least showed that they were approaching, and that their commencement only depended on a word. Who could guarantee us that, under the influence of a first movement, that word would not be pronounced at St Petersburg, and that, if it had been, that the city of Constantinople would be protected from acoup de main? It was a danger of this kind that we feared, and as, if it were to be realised, the game would be lost at the outset, prudence imposed on us the duty of doing everything to prevent it. In what could such a measure of foresight more resemble a provocation than did the armaments of Russia herself? Why should not France and England, for the object of maintaining the treaty of 1841, have the right of doing that which one of the Powers which signed that convention was doing with such very different designs? Such are the considerations which determined us to send our fleet to Salamis, and which we now recommend to draw closer to the Dardanelles, not to take the initiative in an aggression, not to encourage Turkey to refuse every arrangement, but to secure her against an immediate danger, and to reserve in case of need to diplomacy the resources which it would no longer have if it had to struggle againstfaits accomplis.”
9. It is but fair to say that the noble Lord seemed to feel the sarcasm conveyed in the term “beau,” as the word is translated “important” in the papers laid before Parliament.
9. It is but fair to say that the noble Lord seemed to feel the sarcasm conveyed in the term “beau,” as the word is translated “important” in the papers laid before Parliament.
10.Evenings in my Tent; or, Wanderings in Balad Ejjareed. Illustrating the Moral, Social, and Political Conditions of various Arab Tribes of the African Sahara.By the Rev. W. Davis, F.R.S.S.A. 2 vols. London: 1854.
10.Evenings in my Tent; or, Wanderings in Balad Ejjareed. Illustrating the Moral, Social, and Political Conditions of various Arab Tribes of the African Sahara.By the Rev. W. Davis, F.R.S.S.A. 2 vols. London: 1854.
11. In January 1850 (videarticle “The Year of Reaction”), after commenting on the interposition of Russia to save Austria in the Hungarian war, we stated our belief that the Czar did not render such a service to his brother-despot for nothing. “It is more than probable,” we said, “that a secret treaty, offensive and defensive, already unites the two powers; that the crushing of the Magyars was bought by the condition that the extension of Muscovite influence in Turkey was to be connived at;and that the Czar will one day advance to Constantinople without fear, because he knows that his right flank is secure on the side of Austria.”
11. In January 1850 (videarticle “The Year of Reaction”), after commenting on the interposition of Russia to save Austria in the Hungarian war, we stated our belief that the Czar did not render such a service to his brother-despot for nothing. “It is more than probable,” we said, “that a secret treaty, offensive and defensive, already unites the two powers; that the crushing of the Magyars was bought by the condition that the extension of Muscovite influence in Turkey was to be connived at;and that the Czar will one day advance to Constantinople without fear, because he knows that his right flank is secure on the side of Austria.”
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