... T heATK.ES THE little pieces which used to be written for Mdlle. Déjazet and produced at her theatre in Paris have rarely been seen else where, and still more rarely have their leading characters been ...

... CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY.-- The Taming of the Shrew has been given a third time, fully confirming the impression created on the first-- Rienzi, Carmen, Mignon, and the Bohemian Girl being the other wor ...

... A PINK WEDDING, by R. Mounteney Jephson (Bentley and Son).-- This book is evidently written with the intention of letting the world know what Mr. Jephson himself knows of Japan. A sentimental novel, ...

... j eKusic) 5 MDLLE. AMALIA FOSSA, who made her début at the Royal Italian Opera on Thursday week, is no novice like Mdlle. d'Angeri. Her assumption of Violetta (La Traviata) was that of an experienced ...

... J&Tjr '.Vs x nnnwv /A Va mm £km A/ /c [VffPgjj; ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE, by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S. (4 vols.: vol. 2. S. Low, Marston, and Co.) We have in this volume a further instalment ...

... MESSRS. ENOCH AND SONS.-- A very charming song, pub lished in three keys, is Left Untold, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Frederic H. Cowen.-- The same may be said of Time and Tide, ...

... E. C. BOOSEY.-- The vocal contents of our parcel from this publisher are, for the most part, superior to the instrumental. Prettiest amongst some really pretty ballads are Passion Past, by ...

... THE A TRES THE extraordinary interest which has been manifested in the reopening of the LYCEUM Theatre under the management of Mr. Irving betokens an impression that hitherto that distinguished actor, ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The Covent Garden season is now fairly started; yet another Royal Italian Opera (there is no copy right in the title) will begin at Drury Lane on Monday week, and Mr. Mapleson ...

... B. MALYON (GLASGOW).-- A very clever invention has been patented by Madame Bennett, a well known professor of music. The Self-instructing Key-board for Pianoforte, &c., specially designed for beginn ...

... WHILE complaints are being heard on all hands of the helpless dependence of our theatres upon foreign authors, it is worthy of special note that last week witnessed the successful production on the Lo ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE,-- At the fifth Saturday performance the programme contained two novelties-- a concert-overture by Mr. T. Wingham, and a symphonic poem by Friederic Smétana-- both interesting if for ...