... (Our ^Bookshelf souls RITA, as she shows in the preface to her Souls A Comedy of Intentions (Hutchinson and Co.), has been moved to vehement indignation by what she has read about High Life in ...

... iflusic BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL THE Birmingham Festival, which is the principal musical event cf the present week, is exceptionally interesting, if only for the production of Dr. Elgar's new orato ...

... ^ttusic of the Sftcck PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPERA SEASON THE last fancy dress ball of the winter has taken place at Covent Garden, and on Monday the workmen started to reconstruct the stage, so that by ...

... ^hc theatres BY VV. MOY THOMAS FOE SWORD OR SONG FOR SWORD OR SONG, at the SHAFTESBURY', which is quaintly described as Written by Robert George Legge, made by Louis Calvert, and Musick'd by Raym ...

... iEIie iEluatr.es BY W. MOY THOMAS _ HE R SECOND TIME ON EARTH IN his new play at the ADELPHI, Mr. Walter Melville, the joint author of The Worst Woman in London, could hardly be expected to go one b ...

... rlfllUvU JloteS WE have already had two important concerts in connection with the centenary of Berlioz' birth, and a third, directed by Dr. Richard Strauss, is promised on the real anniversary next mo ...

... 0 it f d 0 0 It sit c I f TIIF. T1RITJSH ARMY, 1763-1793 THE third volume of A History of the British Army (Macmillan and Co.), by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, opens at the end of the Seven Years' War, ...

... (Ditr giocrkshclt HARRY REVEL TIME, place, atmosphere, and subject render it impossible to help thinking of Captain Marryatt while reading Mr. A. T. Quiller Couch's story of Plymouth when the last c ...

... u s i c THE OPERA Madame Mei.ba has re-appeared, Madame Calve is expected next Thursday to play her famous part in Carmen, the eminent French tenor, M. Alvarez, has announced his rentr/e in Verdi's Ot ...

... us it BROADWOODS AND DIMMERS AFTER an occupation of the time-honoured house at 33, Great Pulteney Street (the Plume of Feathers was its trade sign in the reign of George II.), extending over mor ...

... . Dante kept up its popu larity to the last, a crowded audience witness ing the final representa tion at Old Drury on Saturday evening, when there was enthusiastic ap lause for Sir Henry Irving in his really striking por traiture of the Florentine hero who has such strange experiences on earth and in another place that is kept for wicked people. lhe eminent actor during the run of the play had ...

... . There was a full house at Wyndham s on the 16tlp inst. to see the last here of Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace, which, if not a great comedy, was decidedly an amusing one and sup plied Miss Mary Moore with a part in which she scored brilliantly. At the close of the performance Sir Charles Wyndham, having responded to several calls, yielded to the evident desire for a few words of farewell. He had ...