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ances, " The Great Fire and Plague of London," produce in young 

 minds impressions that old age will not efface, and constitute a suita- 

 ble historical lesson well worth the entrance cost. 



New Strand Theatre. — This hitherto luckless property is about 

 to redeem its fair fame, and we trust its pecuniary sacrifices. No 

 longer fettered with a padlock on the human voice divine, but armed 

 even with authority, the boards may be trod upon and the walls may 

 resound to an audience's plaudits. If our Londonians and West- 

 minsterians be but true to their own endemic disposition, they will 

 not fail to support talent where it is to be found, and, if our own ideas 

 betoken not presumption, we bid them seek it at this fairy-like retreat. 

 Mr. Hammond and his brother-in-law Mr. D. Jerrold are joint 

 bearers of the speculation, and they mutually put their shoulders to 

 the wheel. Mr. Hammond is new as a performer to the metropolis, 

 but the opening night must have convinced him and his friends within 

 the house, that it was not the mere novelty of his appearance that 

 elicited the applause he obtained throughout his performance. Mr. 

 D. Jerrold, whom the town knows as the author of the RENT- 

 DAY and many other successful pieces, assumed the Thespian attire, 

 for the first time on any stage. Small in stature, prominent and 

 expressive in feature, with a pleasing voice, clear and distinct in 

 delivery, and a carefulness and attention to every sentence he uttered, 

 sum up the physical attributes of the man. The stage needs many 

 such, and, the New Strand Theatre being secure of this one, its 

 patrons may calculate where an ^evening's relaxation is to be found. 

 The Painter of Ghent is a sketch illustrating a father's grief for a 

 daughter's loss, wherein restitution, reconciliation, and forgiveness are 

 secured through the agency of a benevolent priest, but unhappily the 

 parent's joy is dissolved in death ere he can utter his blessing on his 

 misguided, but repentant child. Jerrold played better than he 

 looked, his appearance not sufficiently indicating the sorrows of fifty 

 years, which is the presumed age of Roderick; but the personification 

 afforded the author an opportunity of embodying his own thoughts, 

 and withal the essay was a successful one. A farce entitled P. L. 30, 

 Strand, was introduced, in which Forrester, the smartest fellow on this 

 or any other stage, took the management and carried it through to 

 the great satisfaction of all present. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



" Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life." A New Edition, being the 

 Eleventh is in the press. 



Just published, "The Remains, Religious and Literarj', of Samuel Drew, 

 A.M. ; comprising Sermons, Controversial Pieces, Essays, and Letters." 

 Edited by his eldest son. 



Part 1. — Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated. Drawn from 

 nature by W. II. Bartlett and W. Purser ; with descriptions of the Plates by 

 John Carne, author of " Letters from the East." Containing five large and 

 highly finished Engravings. — Part 2, containing four Engravings, will be 

 published June 1st. 



