... CROTCHETS AND QUAVERS. ON SEQUELS OF OPERAS. Operas and novels enjoy an equal popularity, and in many im portant respects their resemblance is striking. In each, a fictitious story is worked out, and the three acts of the opera correspond to the three volumes of the novel. The opera, like the novel, gene rally concludes with the marriage of its hero and heroine; although, of course, there are ...

... CROTCHETS AND QUAVERS. SEQUELS OF OPERAS. THE story of La Sonnambula is so well known, that it will not be necessary to give any prefatory explanation of the following endeavour to furnish further particulars respecting the fate of its personages: LA SONNAMBULA.-- (Act IV.) Scene (2nd Grooves) Bedroom in Ei.vino's house. Window R, wide open. Elvino discovered in bed, snoring. He sneezes ...

... CROTCHETS AND QUAVERS. SEQUELS OF OPERAS. BALFE'S three-act opera, The Bohemian Girl has been so long and deservedly popular, that there must be many persons who are likely to be interested in the announcement of an additional act. Their indulgence is requested for THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.-- (Act IV). (Two years later than Act III.) SCENE 1st. (A Gipsy encampment near the Castle of Arnheim. ...

... SHYLOCK v. ANTONIO; OR, HOW THE TRIAL WOULD HAVE RESULTED AT WESTMINSTER HALL. Tin; badness of the law as laid down in the trial Scene of the Merchant of Venice, militating so strongly as it does against the late Lord Campbell's theory that Shakspeare was a lawyer, induces a legal admirer, in these days of improved adaptations of the immortal Bard, to venture to suggest the following ...

... . BEFORE proceeding with my regular business (which upon this occasion is little more than to criticise the greatly improved pro-, gramme of the Strand Theatre), I am constrained to make a few remarks upon certain irregular phenomena lately apparent in the theatrical heavens. By many it will doubtless be urged that amateur performances of the kind do good rather than harm to the dramatic ...

... WITH the exception of Mr. Corney Grain's new musical sketch Edwin and Angelina, and a new second piece by Mr. Burnand entitled No. 204, both produced at the German Reed's entertain ment on Monday evening, and noticed hereafter, and the produc tion at the Folly on Saturday afternoon of Messrs. Arthur Mathe son and Edward Solomon's new comic operetta Contempt of Court, there is little to record ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE GOLDEN PLOUGH. Act I. Opening Chorus. Under a spreading old oak tree, The Golden Plough it stands The hostess, Mistress Royal she, Her business understands. And in the true Adelplii way, Portending crime and blood, The drama opens, which you'll say Is really very good Although, as always is the case, In dramas of the kind, Impossibilities take place, Such things you ...

... . BEYOND the continued and deserved success of Diplomacy at the Prince of Wales's; the decided hit made by Mr. Toole as Chawles in the new comedy, A Fool and his Money, written specially for him, produced at the Globe, on Thursday last week, and which is noticed below; and the re-opening of the Philhar monic Theatre, on Wednesday evening, with a revival of Offen bach's Genevieve de Brabant; ...

... Whatever influence sport and pastime mav have brought to bear upon the upper crust of society, there can be no doubt that the cause of muscular Christianity has been well served by those directing the tastes of the middle classes, which may not inaptly be termed the backbone of the English nation. We are not about to discuss the question of how far the amusements of the rich have been the ...

... . S. W. F.-- John Poole, the author of Paul Pry, was buried at Highgate Cemetery in 1872. SAML CORDING.-- The parts which you name in the Two Roses were played-- 1, by Mr. Irving; 2, by Mr. Honey; and 3, by Miss Amy Fawsitt. A. ASHBURY. --There was a tavern called the Boar's Head, in Shakspeare's time, and as it stood close by the Blackfriars playhouse, it may have been one frequented by ...

... A DERBY-DAY DREAM OF THE DRAMA. LANK were his once Hyperion curls, his glossy gaberdine-- A triumph of the builders art-- had lost its virgin sheen; His orbs, erst bright and witching, were now as fishes'-- dead, The whites a lemon-yellow, and the lids an Indian red. The face, a war of roses once, suggested-- terra vert, Meet model it for WATTS to sketch, in gamboge, chrome, and-- dirt; His ...

... LOVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for this paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER XII. PAUL had not concealed from Gabrielle that Eugene Noriac had formerly been acquainted with Zita Denman and her friends. But, in explaining his reasons for renewing these relations, M. Noriac had acted with his usual diplomacy. Otherwise, Gabrielle might have entertained suspicions when she saw him ...