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The Calcutta Review March 1857

1857

7 get the signature of the Brigadier and some big Civilian" to head the subscriptions—for though the virtual originators of the festivity it would be death to the design were either of our three friends to assume the lead. [...] But it may be that some are invited over from out-stations to swell the number - and to give that appearance of strangers among the old faces which conveys one of the most refreshing sensations that the Mofussil can afford and is comparable to nothing but the first sparkle of the desert spring or the first experience of any of those pleasant things of which poets delight to sing. [...] These aspirants are usually rather fresh from En! and and posessed of the most recent coats and waistcoats without which it must be confessed the character is apt to lose a great deal of vraisemblance ; for it is evident to the meanest capacity among the audience that the traditionary swell of the British stage with the military stripe to his trowsers whom the waiting maid usualy find [...] upon the sane principles the bay would infallibly pour itself into the orchestra and the mountain come toppling down upon the heads of the first boxes when the bell rings and the curtain rises upon a " screaming farce." The next moment we are in the presence of Buekstone. [...] No : it is evident that a party" in the North Wet4 that is not a dinner party is the Veirelaf what political parties have been said to be—it is the madness of the few the gain of the many and it is not to be wondered at that the few do not go mad more often than they do.
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Pages
264
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
Art. I.—Life in the North West
1-23 unknown view
Art. II.—The Electric Telegraph
24-46 unknown view
Art. III.—The Penal Code
47-80 unknown view
Art. IV.—Australia and India
81-94 unknown view
Art. V.—Coffee in the East
95-108 unknown view
Art. VI.—The District Officer N. W. P. his Miscellaneous Duties
109-128 unknown view
Art. VII.—British Birds in India
129-195 unknown view
Art. VIII.—Darjeeling
196-226 unknown view
Miscellaneous Notices
i-xviii unknown view
Backmatter
i-xvi unknown view

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