... 2Tfj c Drama. THE only novelty of the week, but an important and highly interesting one, was M. Charles Lecocq's last new opera Giroflé Girofla, produced for the first time in England at the Opera Comique on Saturday last, supported by M. Humbert's company from Les Fantaisies Parisiennes, Brussels, who originally repre sented it during its recent successful run in the Belgian capital, and who ...

... ■. THE opinions of the critics are much divided as to the exact meaning or extent of realism in connection with art. Nowadays, in consequence of being able to enjoy the perusal of poetry aud fiction while seated comfortably in our arm-chair between a fire and a reading-easel, we no longer frequent the theatre for the purposes of instruction or poetical edification. Consequently, much is ...

... reminiscences of an old sportsman. By LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chatter VII. A GREAT change has taken place in hunting; whether for the better or the worse, remains to he considered. The world has advanced in luxury, improvement, and perfection, all of which tend to the increase of expense. The outlay upon horses, hounds, servants, has increased in an alarming ratio within the last fifty years, and ...

... . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter NIL FROM the time I first sailed a toy boat at Bognor, in the gullies left when the tide was receding, to the year 1866, when I owned the Loadstar cutter of 48 tons, I passed a great portion of my spare time upon the water. Since the latter period, I have enjoyed many a delightful sail in the Arrow, the Zouave, the Zara, the Iolanthe, the Zuleika, the Mars, ...

... . Chapter XV. HALLAM, in his History and Government of Europe during the Middle Ages, gives the following description of the tourna ment: --Tournaments may be considered to have arisen about the middle of the eleventh century; for though every martial people have found diversion in representing the image of war, yet the name of tournaments, and the laws that regulated them, cannot be traced ...

... reminiscences of an old sportsman. BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter XVII. IN October 1811, one of the Glasgow coaches was overturned in consequence of running a race with a post-chaise on the road from Edinburgh, whereby a Mr. Brown was killed, and his wife so bruised as to be in imminent danger. A verdict was found in January 1812, in consequence of an action brought in the Court of Sessions ...

... . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter XIX. To show how difficult shooting was some fifty years ago, to what it now is, I lay Before my readers an account of a day at Holkham, got up especially for royalty. On the 11th of December 18 16, his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester repeated his annual visit to Mr. Coke at Holkham, and partook of the sports of the field. Two hundred and fifty four ...

... FATHERS OF THE ENGLISH STUD. No. XXVII.-- WEST AUSTRALIAN. VIXERE fortes ante Agamemnona multi-- and so, doubtless, before the days of the West, many good horses made their mark on the Turf, but Mr. Bowes's horse was the first to secure the treble event of Two Thousand, Derby, and Leger. Next to our Dutchman recollections, the name of West Australian is associated with our earliest racing ...

... MR. ANDREW O ROURKE'S RAMBLINGS. FLIGHT. Craven- street, Strand, London, Jan. 3, 1876. ME DEAR MIKE,-- 'Tis often them laist behoulden to advise that's most ready to give it, and 'tis often to them who can or will make laist use of it that 'tis given to. That may not be raison, but it's human nature, an human nature is above raison; for, Mike, there was human natur long before there was raison ...

... POETS AND PLAYERS IN THE DAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. ANOTHER STROLL ON THE BANKSEDE. PART I. There were giants in those days. IN the article on page 384 of the ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS, A Stroll on the Bankside, we described the first playhouses and playgoers, with the popular sports and pastimes of which that locality was the scene in the days of Shakspeare. Let us now resume that ...

... . NO. VII. BY' OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER. Camp Ranpur, Guzerat, Jan. 1, 1876. I AM once more writing from Gazerat, having bidden adieu to Kathiawar since dispatching my last letter to you. My stay in the latter country only extended to a fortnight; but during that time I was able to gain a tolerably fair estimate of the sport to be met with there. Kathiawar is a far more hilly country than ...

... TOETS AND PLAYERS IN THE DAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. ANOTHER STROLL ON THE BANltsmE. PART IV. Concluded from page 6150 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, who has been called the morning star of the drama, was one of the older poets who, under the influence of Greene, resented the encouragement given by the players and public to the upstart crowe, young Shakspeare, on his first arrival amongst them. He was the ...