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...said: "Every reader of Lincoln's life will be benefited immeasurably. As to fiction among those I like best are Dickens. Bulwer-Lytton, Stevenson, Scott, Dumas, Hugo and Mark Twain...
...playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with the traditional plot to add spectator-interest. The background...
Readers of Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii remember the destruction of ancient Rome's shore resort, by earthquake and eruption of Vesuvius in 63 and 79 A. D. Since then Central and Southern Italy has been shaken by innumerable minor and six major earthquakes. The 1456 quake wiped out 40,000 people in Naples, that of 1626, 70,000 more. In September 1693, 100,000 died in Sicily. Buildings fell and graveyards filled again in 1783. Many an Italian oldster remembers the horror of Messina in 1908. Obscured by War news was the quake of 1915 when...
...thing that is usually taken on the road. There is one scene in the King's garden that is quite effective and is used by Mr. Hampden to the heights of its possibilities. In fact the whole performance was extremely entertaining and fulfilled the potentialities of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's play...
...Bulwer and Disraeli", Dr. Maynadier, Sever...