... MESSRS. REID BROTHERS.-- Two songs which will take a good position in the drawing-room programmes are O that the Dove's Light Wings were Mine and Elysian Dreams, written and composed by W. Cartwri ...

... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND CO.-- In Weakness, Lord, We Come to Thee, a hymn, by the Rev. C. H. Ostler, music by Florence Grayson Lowood, is a very nice and devotional composition, which would ...

... Wu theatres By W. MOY THOMAS MDLLE. FELICIA MALLET, who has this week replaced Mdlle. Litini in the cast of A Pierrot's Life at the morning performances at the Prince of WALES'S Theatre, is a lady of ...

... Miscellaneous.- Two songs which are decidedly out of the common groove of song-writing are Dreams of Spring, the pleasing words (after the German), by Charles Karlyle, the music by Gustav Ernest, and ...

... THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by Thomas Hardy (3 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- In this fine work-- perhaps the most artisti cally perfect that we have yet had from him-- Mr. Hardy more than retrieves the g ...

... MR. CARTON, who is joint author with Mr. Cecil Raleigh of the new romantic drama with which Miss Agnes Hewitt has reopened the OLYMPIC, is an actor of some experience, and The Pointsman is essentially ...

... Is there any mortal in existence who has never desired the power of lifting the veil that hides the future? Probably not one: so that Mr. E. J. Goodman, in the novel entitled Too Curious (I vol.: Be ...

... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- One of Jean Ingelow's beautiful and pathetic poems, The Song of a Boat, has been set to appropriate music by Alice Borton, who has caught the tender beauty of the word ...

... THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.-- Whether the Welsh were wise to hold their Jubilee Eisteddfod in London at all is a matter quite open to question. The very charm of these gatherings lies in their essentially n ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND SON.-- A pleasing duet, for a mezzo soprano and baritone, is Out With the Tide, written and composed by C. J. Rowe and Francesco Berger. There is a cheerful swing and a more than ...

... MR. SYDNEY GRUNDY'S farce in three acts, entitled The Snowball, originally produced at the Strand Theatre some years ago, has been revived at the Globe this week with some success. Its story, which co ...

... THE ROYAL JUBILEE ANTHEM.-- Two musical compositions have been commanded for the Royal Jubilee. One is Mr. W. G. Cusins' Jubilee Cantata, which will be performed in the Queen's presence at a State ...