... g|g|[T H ¥S| THE OLYMPIC Theatre has reopened for the season with a new drama from the pen of Mr. Wilkie Collins, which bears the title of The Moonstone, and is founded on the author's romance of the ...

... MESSRS. CRAMER AND CO.-- Two pleasing songs for a mezzo-soprano are Sunrise and Sunset and Reunited, written and composed by George March and Virginia Gabriel; the former is the less ambitious, bu ...

... THE first performance of Rossini's evergreen Barbiere was chiefly remarkable on account of the always looked-for apparition of Madame Adelina Patti in the character of Dr. Bartolo's sprightly ward-- a ...

... MR. ROBERTSON, who has already taken his place as the most original and successful of writers for the English stage, has once more achieved a triumph as an author of genuine comedy. His n ...

... THE playgoers who have complained that the new piece at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre deals with an unpleasant theme, cannot at least pretend that they have been taken by surprise; for Mr. Philips, who in ...

... The reopening of the St. James's Theatre under the management of Mr. Hare and Mr. and Mrs. Kendal has been the occasion of the revival of the late Mr. Robertson's Home, a comedy written expressly for ...

... MISS FOTHERGILL, having mastered a certain limited number of characters and situations, appears to be content with her position, and to consider repetition of herself the better part of invention. Her ...

... MR. EDWIN BOOTH has exchanged the part of Cardinal Richelieu in the late Lord Lytton's play for that of Bertuccio in The Tool's Revenge. This is perhaps the finest, and is certainly the most elabo rat ...

... IOLANTHE. --That Mr. Arthur Sullivan, in partnership with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, his alter ego of several years' standing, has merited and won a new success would seem to be unanimously, and on fair gro ...

... BALDNESS, unfortunately, is a subject which has a present or prospective interest for most people; even the medical student may find himself attracted to it by a grim spell of personal curiosity as we ...

... WITH the recollection of For Percival upon us, it need hardly be said that in Damocles (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.). Margaret Veley has written an able and thoughtful novel. It is most unlikel ...

... A DOG and HIS SHADOW, by R. E. Francillon, authorof Olympia: a Romance, &c. (3 vols. : Grant and Co.).-- Mr. Francillon is an artist in story-telling. He is not satisfied merely with having an exc ...