... jfiustc. Music Intended for notice In t.bo Monthly Review of New M uric, on the last Saturday of each month, must bo sent 011 or before tho previous Saturday. Bonofit Concerts will not (as a rule) bo noticed, unless previously ad- vortisod in our columns. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. MADAME ADELINA PATTI continues to attract crowded houses whenever she appears. Her second appearance this season was ...

... HAYMARKET THEATRE. MONT BLANC. Le Voyage de M. Perrichon, from which part of the plot of Messrs. Henry and Athol Mayhew's new picturesque comedy Mont Blanc, produced here on Monday evening, is derived, was one of the most successful plays in the repertoire of M. Ravel, when he last appeared with the French Company at the St. James's Theatre, and was represented several times last February at ...

... . In view of the interminable popularity of Lecocq's Fille de Madame Angot, that under a slightly varied guise, and with a change of interpreters, is constantly widening the area, and augmenting the number of its triumphs, we are prompted not alone, to exclaim Kien ne succede que le succes I hut to supplement this well-known aphorism with tho words, Ft le succes dure h jamais Marvellous ...

... . Lucrczia Borgia was produced last week for the rentrée of Signor Campanini, who re-appeared in the character of 'Gennaro' --the first which he performed in this country. Since last season, Signor Campanini has played during several months in America, where he made a great success. He has returned to us with con siderably increased power of voice, and with a better style of acting; and his ...

... K\}c ranta. WITHOUT any special deference to the holiday of Whitsuntide when erstwhile it was deemed essentially appropriate to produce new pieces as at Christmas and Easter, several novelties happen coincidentally to mark the festival this year. On Saturday at the Vaudeville, Mr. Reece's extravaganza Ruy Blas Righted, gave place to an entirely new, original, and Scott-free-and-easy burlesque, ...

... . THE activity displayed at Covent Garden is really pro digious. Three fresh operas per week are regularly produced; and since the commencement of the season some thirty operas have been performed. Whether operas thus hastily rehearsed can receive full justice, and whether choristers can retain the brightness of their voices when called on to rehearse every day for several hours, besides ...

... Qranta. THE past week, in the theatrical world, has been completely blank as regards novelty, and in other respects comparatively un eventful, --the programmes of all the houses remaining the same as they were during the Whitsun week, with the exception of the Lyceum, where Mr. Hamilton Aide's drama, Philip, with Mr. Irving, Miss Isabel Bateman, and Mr. Clayton, in their original characters, ...

... . THERE are those who consider that the office of the actor is to portray nature as she would be, if she were as the fancy of the poet conceives that she should be, rather than to present her as she is, under her every-day, unromantie, and too often, contemp tible aspect. A powerful argument in favour of the greater accuracy of the latter theory is supplied by the fact that it is manifestly ...

... . THE Eleventh Annual Horse Show, held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, was opened on Saturday morning, when the judging for the weight-carrying hunter class commenced. There are about 350 horses entered, comprising four classes of hunters, riding horses, weight-carrying cover hacks and roadsters, park hacks, and ladies' horses, two classes of harness horses, high- stepping park cobs, ...

... itlusic. Music intended for notice in the Monthly Review of Ne w Music, on the last Saturday of each month, must bo sent on or before the previous Saturday. Benefit Concerts will not (as a rule) he noticed, unless previously ad vertised in our columns. BALFE'S TALISMANO. THE production of Balfe's posthumous opera is an event which eclipses in musical importance all others of recent times. ...

... JBramau WITHOUT a single dramatic novelty, the standing programmes, still undiminished in their attractions at the majority of the theatres, and the few necessary changes at the others, have drawn full audiences to all the houses during the week, Ascot week, when the season is at its zenith, and London fullest. Good for Nothing, with Mrs. Alfred Mellon as 'Nan,' and the new evergreen Overland ...

... . THE Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace has been the chief musical event of the concert season. An army of vocalists and instrumentalists, collected under the command of Sir Michael Costa, has worthily executed well chosen selections from the works of the great composer; and the deep affection which is felt for his music has been attested by the crowds of musical pilgrims who have found ...