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Henri de la Fére, an Officer in the French Army.......00...00 
T. Midgley. 
Blanche d’ Evran, his Cousin ............ 0.0008 Miss M. Slater. 
Scene—Chiateau de la Fére. 
‘¢Wrak Woman,” 
an Original Comedy in Three Acts, by H. J. Byron. 
Doctor Fleming, a London Physician ...... A, B. Hardman. 
Captain Ginger, of the Bungleshire Buffs ...... T’. Midgley. 
Arthur Medwyn, a Young Farmer.............. J. W. Houlden. 
Tootal; a) Provineial Swell: vscisseveceedees Aveee Charles Fox. 
Frederick Fanshawe..........0.ssceceseeee seoveseeed. Redmond. 
Edwards, in Mani Servant. co.i. vases coud tiedewectiin J. Fletcher. 
Helen Gaythorne Cousins “ue Miss M. Slater. 
Lilian Gaythorne oaeeetrt sn Miss A. Lea. 
Mrs. Gunn, a Distant Relative.................. Miss M. Flynn. 
Scene : Act I.—Eixterior of Country House. 
Scene: Acts I. and I11.—Drawing Room in the House. 
Mr. I’. Myers’s Band supplied the Music. 
THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO 
PAINTING. 
By GEORGE MILNER, President of the Manchester Literary 
Club ; 
Also Address by the President, HENRY HOULDING, 
September 30th, 1884. 
On introducing Mr. Milner, Mr. Houlding said ;—Burnley has 
risen within the memory of living persons from something like a 
country village to a town of seventy thousand inhabitants, with, 
it is said, more factory chimneys than any other town in the 
world. Hitherto it has not been remarkable for its artistic or 
literary associations, but rather for the absence of these. Its 
local art treasures cannot be collected, for they have yet to be 
produced, its local poets are unknown to fame, its local historians 
are waiting for the local history to ‘‘make itself.” A stranger 
coming to a town of seventy thousand inhabitants, and an 
unequalled number of factory chimneys, might haply enquire for 
our art gallery, our theatre, our atheneum, our representatives 
of letters and philosophy, or for the quiet places of resort where 
those meet who love the high and beautiful things which uplift 
humanity above the dead level of material necessities and 
material ideas, into regions mild of calm and serene air; and he 
might enquire in vain. Literature, art, philosophy, these are 
