Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 - Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852

THE ART SEASON. BILL WILLIAMS. HYGIENIC CHANGE OF AIR. THE DEVICE, OR IMPRESS. A COUNTRY WEDDING IN FRANCE. NOBLE INSTANCE OF TURKISH GENEROSITY AND HONESTY. LADY BETTY, THE HANGWOMAN. THE WILL AND THE WAY. PAPER-MILLS. LINES TO . PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TAPERED IRON. Returning with the circling year, and advancing pari passu with the multitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silent reign of the picture exhibitionsthose great art-gatherings from thousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment in the dozen well-filled galleries, which the dilettante, or lounging Londoner, considers it his recurring annual duty strictly to inspect, and regularly to gossip in. As places where everybody meets everybody, and where lazy hours can be conveniently lounged away, the exhibitions in some sort supply in the afternoon what the Opera and parties do in the evenings. Nearly all through the summer-day, they are crowded with a softly-rustling, humming, buzzing crowd, coming and going perhaps, taking little heed of the nominal attraction, but sauntering from room to room, or ensconcing themselves in colonies or clusters of chairs, and lounging vacantly in cool lobbies. At energetic sight-seers, who are labouring away, catalogue and pencil in hand, they stare languidly. They really thought everybody had seen the pictures; they know they have: they have stared at them until they became a bore. But this sort of people, who only come once, why, of course, they suppose this sort of people must be allowed to push about as they please. But it is a confounded nuisance; it is really. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 21010
Author: Various
Release Date: Apr 8, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 , Chambers, William, 1800-1883