Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
One only specimen of his prowess convinced us of his supernatural
talents. He politely solicited the loan of a bank-notehe was not choice
as to the amount or bank of issue. It may be, saith the play-bill, a
Bank of England or provincial note, for any sum from five pounds to one
thousand. His is better magic than Owen Glendowers, for the note did
come when he did call it! for a confiding individual in the boxes
(dress circle of course) actually did lend him, the Wizard, a cool
hundred! Conceive the power, in a metaphysical sense, the conjuror must
have had over the lenders mind! Was it animal magnetism?was it terror
raised by his extraordinary performances, that spirited the cash out of
the pocket of the man? who, perhaps, thought that such supernatural
talents might be otherwise employed against his very existence, thus
occupying his perturbed soul with the alternative, Your money or your
life!
This subject is deeply interesting to actors out of engagements,
literary men, and people who have seen better daysindividuals who
have brought this species of conjuration to a high state of perfection.
It is a new and important chapter in the art of borrowing. We perceive
in the Wizards advertisements he takes pupils, and offers to make them
proficient in any of his delusions at a guinea per trick. We intend to
put ourselves under his instructions for the bank-note trick, the moment
we can borrow one-pound-one for that purpose.
Besides this, the Wizard does a variety of things which made our hair
stand on end, even while reading their description in his play-bill. We
did not see him perform them. There was no occasionthe bank-note trick
convinced usfor the man who can borrow a hundred pounds whenever he
wants it can do anything.
Everybody ought to go and see him. Young ladies having a taste for
sentimental-looking men, who wear their hair à la jeune France; natural
historians who want to see guinea-pigs fly; gamesters who would like to
be made fly to a card trick or two; connoisseurs, who wish to see how
plum-pudding may be made in hats, will all be gratified by a visit to
the Adelphi.
MACBETH AT THE SURREY. We heard the Macbeth choruses exquisitely
performed, and saw the concluding combat furiously fought at this
theatre. This was all, appertaining unto Macbeth in which we could
detect a near approach to the meaning and purpose of the text, except
the performance of the Queen, by Mrs. H. Vining, who seemed to
understand the purport of the words she had to speak, and was,
consequently, inoffensivea rare merit when Shakspere is attempted on
the other side of the Thames.
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