. Bird's eye views of society . A Popular Entertainment. A Popular ONCERT HALLS and fuch likeplaces of publicentertainmenthave lately be-come fo liketaverns, or tavernshave become folike concert hallsand fuch likeplaces of publicentertainment, that it is not eafy to fay where one beginsand the other leaves off. A great want muft furely have beenmet when promoters and managers of the Peoples amufe-ments firft conceived the happy thought of combininglinging and tumbling, and eating and drinking, and fmoking—of blending, as it were, brandy-and-water with fentimental fongs, and Bou
. Bird's eye views of society . A Popular Entertainment. A Popular ONCERT HALLS and fuch likeplaces of publicentertainmenthave lately be-come fo liketaverns, or tavernshave become folike concert hallsand fuch likeplaces of publicentertainment, that it is not eafy to fay where one beginsand the other leaves off. A great want muft furely have beenmet when promoters and managers of the Peoples amufe-ments firft conceived the happy thought of combininglinging and tumbling, and eating and drinking, and fmoking—of blending, as it were, brandy-and-water with fentimental fongs, and Bounding Brothers, and low prices. It muftbe very much better than a play,—if we may form anopinion from the numbers who crowd to thefe places,—tobe able to fit, with a little table before one, with, forinftance, a bottle of beer upon it, to have one eye turnedupon an acrobat, the other gazing affectionately at thedrink, a cigar hanging lazily from the mouth, from whichcurls of fmoke come forth leifurely and languidly, for onesears to imbibe the while the brilliant but viole
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