... |/C1 ...

... 4 INNXVANNV/ I 5 JyUjsIC) As the Covent Garden performance of Hamlet on Thursday and of Otello, last night, came too late for present notice, we have very little to say about operatic doings. Mr. Gye ...

... ACCORDING to the statistics published in the newspapers this week by Mr. John Hollingshead, there are in London at this moment forty-seven licensed play-houses, of which no less than twenty-one have s ...

... sNIwr MASKS, by Marius (2 vols., Tinsley), is presumably the first effort of an officer in the army, and evidently of an admirer and imitator of Whyte Melville and Hawley Smart. The author plays the ...

... ADMIRERS of M. Brasseur, who since his first appearance at the Princess' on Monday week have looked forward to seeing him in some piece worthy of his great and original powers, have been doomed to dis ...

... K'-AN^NXV/V-V/V.V 1 eMail SIC) plays a prominent part in connection with the visit of his Persian Majesty, and we offer no apology for giving prece dence here to the arrangements made for the Sh ...

... -7 Xusic) THE result of the State performance at the Royal Italian Opera quite justified the remarks we made upon it last week. As a performance intended to be a divertissement, and not an artistic di ...

... ill nTrnrafcvjn.TrrtnfUraf.nn?Tj^Tmra z. MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- If Beethoven were to rise up out of his grave no doubt he would be highly indignant to find extracts from his various instrumental ...

... THE New Magdalen, by Wilkie Collins (3 vols., Bentley). We cannot congratulate Mr. Wilkie Collins either upon his choice of a subject in his manner of treating it. The New Magdalen seems to us a b ...

... S55 5555 MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- True to the Last will find many singers besides Mr. Maybrick, for a miniature tragedy is re lated by C. J. Rowe of a brave young soldier slain in battle and a mai ...

... Theatres MR. CHARLES MATHEWS' engagement at the GAIETY has come to an end, and the departure of that distinguished actor has been followed by a total revolution in the character of the performances at ...

... >-r Jytu.sre) OPERATIC doings continue without special interest, save that on Thursday night was to take place the promised revival, as an Italian opera, of Auber's Les Diamans de la Couronne, with Ma ...