Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Iliu-U Mi:^, AT THE IlilNtE uF UALl:^s itii:ait:e.{Reproduced, by permission, from tlic Illlistrattd London Keys, 1S66.) Fashion-ableManners. Theatre Our Boy^, which ran for more than four years. Fora time English dramatic invention, except in melodrama andfarce, seemed at a standstill. In 1(S33 a new social excitement was the bazaar. One oftlie first, held to aid foreigners in distress, is described
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Iliu-U Mi:^, AT THE IlilNtE uF UALl:^s itii:ait:e.{Reproduced, by permission, from tlic Illlistrattd London Keys, 1S66.) Fashion-ableManners. Theatre Our Boy^, which ran for more than four years. Fora time English dramatic invention, except in melodrama andfarce, seemed at a standstill. In 1(S33 a new social excitement was the bazaar. One oftlie first, held to aid foreigners in distress, is described byCrevillo as like a mascpierade without maslvs, everybody talkingto everybody, whether already acquainted or not. The bazaardeveloped the female passion for fancy work, and for imitatinglegitimate arts in inappropriate materials. Leather was cut toappear like wood-carving; potichomania had its victims, whospent tliuir days in fastening pieces of cut paper on to vases -*V. papers. 508 THE liULE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. [1846 and painting tbeni with glaze. In more serious circles electricexperiments were a favourite pastime, and animal magnetism,neuro-h3pnotism, electro-biology were words in every cultui-edpersons mouth. The kaleidoscopes, aerostation, aerial ships,diving-bells of , had been displaced as interesting topicsof conversation by mesmerism, clairvoyance, clairaudieuce-Modern spiritualism came to England from America in theearly fifties, and the literary and fashionable world found inthe seances of D. D. Home and other mediums an all-absorbinginterest. Lord Lyndhurst, Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, Mr. MoncktonMilnes,- Lord Lindsay, Lord Adare, the TroUopes, the Howitts,Mrs. Browning, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Dr Gully of Malvern, areamong those whose names occur frequently m the astonishingliterature that belongs to this The object of the stamp duty on newspapers had been partly to raise money, but also to keep periodical literature forthe moneye
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