... TTT IT is well known that the poet Thomson was physically a very lazy man, and an anecdote is told of the publication of the Seasons which illustrates the opinion entertained of him ...

... THE Athalie of Mendelssohn and Beethoven's Mount of Olives drew a crowded audience to Exeter Hall yesterday week. Athalie displays to a remarkable extent that power over local colour which is ...

... THE following publications of new sacred music are by Messrs. Novello, Ewer, and Co.:-- Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, is an anthem for chorus and semi-chorus, adapted for gene ...

... CERTAIN Christmas performances of the Messiah, and the commencement on Wednesday of the London Ballad Con cert season, are the only events of the sort usually discussed in this column which clai ...

... T MR. ARTHUR CHAPPELL'S Popular Concerts were resumed in St. James's Hall on Monday last, greatly to the delight, if ap pearances may be trusted, of a faithful public. The room was crowded, and ...

... tt, TIJE. THEATRES SATURDAY-MORNING performances have always been a special feature of the GAIETY during die winter, and this year they are even more popular than usual. They differ from ordinary morn ...

... v In his latest novel, A Woman in Spite of Herself (Hurst and Blackett), Mr. Jeaffreson carries his readers into comparatively unexplored regions, for he lays the scene of the first half ...

... MESSRS. CRAMER, WOOD, AND Co.-- Among the recent pub- lications of this firm are two waltzes-- Flora, by Miss S. F. Heilbron, and Waverley, by L. Albrecht. The interest of the first is c ...

... CECIL'S TRYST, by the author of Lost Sir Massing berd (3 vols., Tinsley) is a story of striking events arising from unexpected development of character. You would never guess from your ...

... A NEW melodrama, entitled Nobody's Fortune, performed for the first time at the SURREY Theatre on Monday evening, is founded on a recently-published novel by Mr. Edmund Yates, which bears ...

... SIR BERNARD BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage (Harrison) has now entered its thirty-fourth edition; in itself a pretty good proof of the estimation with which this work is regarded by ...

... THE Bower Theatre is situated in Upper Marsh, Lambeth, which is exactly opposite to Lower Marsh, more generally known as the New Cut, and specially famous for its Sunday morning cost ...