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... FROM among conflicting rumours anent the prospects of Italian opera for the coming season we may take one, and believe it:--. Sir Michael Costa has signed an agreement with Mr. Mapleson, and in ...
... FROM among conflicting rumours anent the prospects of Italian opera for the coming season we may take one, and believe it:--. Sir Michael Costa has signed an agreement with Mr. Mapleson, and in ...
... THE reopening of the CRITERION and the ST. JAMES'S affords further indication of the termination of the dull season in the theatrical calendar; though, as a fact, the last month or two have been anyth ...
... MESSRS. REID BROTHERS.-- Those of our readers who like martial music will admire The Camp, a descriptive battle fantasia for the pianoforte, by Joseph Skeaf.-- Veronica, a march by George E. Princ ...
... MESSRS. MORLEY AND CO.-- Few of our readers but are well acquainted with, and admirers of, the ever-green Ingoldsby Legends, one of which, Winifred Price, the Milkmaid's Story, has been chosen as th ...
... THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.-- The Eisteddfod held this week at Carnarvon would seem to be a success. It began on Tuesday, and was to terminate yesterday. It is always an advantage when these ancient and pat ...
... LIL LORIMER (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) is altogether a stronger and more satisfactory novel than Theo Gift is in the habit of writing. The life of the three delightfully bright and lively English gi ...
... Theatres MR. WILLS'S historical play, Mary Queen o' Scots, produced on Monday at the Princess's Theatre, is a lack-lustrous drama, little calculated to advance the author's fame. Opening in France, wh ...
... ENGLISH readers ought occasionally to be reminded that a French novel is not of necessity unfit for general reading, and that to be found absorbed in a volume covered with yellow paper does not invari ...
... MESSRS. W. MORLEY AND CO.-- A sweet and comforting song for all who are burthened with mundane cares is Cathedral Memories, written and composed by Sidney West and J. Jackson. An organ accompaniment ...
... ROYAL ACADEMY OF .-- The concert on Saturday evening, besides being excellent of its kind, and highly credit able to the students and professors of our time-honoured national institution, was fur ...
... LADY LOVELACE, by C. L. Pirkis (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus), is the sobriquet given to a certain Ellinor Yorke, a ady who devotes herself to the work of breaking men's hearts and robbing other girls ...
... MATRIMONIAL BONDS, by Florian (J. and R. Maxwell).-- The preface should be sufficient to condemn this book; we are told that it is not a story of good boys and girls, but of imperfect men and wome ...