... Letters of Distinguished Musicias: Gluck, Ha!,day, P. G. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Longmans. Lady Wallace here translates another of the collections made by Ludwig Nohl in illustration of the lives of the musicians. Of four or frve men of mark letters are drawn from books and journals in which they have been scattered, and so brought together, that ...

... ?? So many readers are prepared to find pleasure in books like Captain J. T. Newall's Hog-hunting in the East, and other Sports (Tinsley Brothers), t that the author of that work can afford to be told o there are some others to whom the perusal of his 3 volume will afford none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to ...

... LITI3&RX' XXSCdELLANIMA. 'ATInMN Insipid ;blif aend play-clubs as seldom xi possible. In visits of ceremony be sparing. WOMEN are a great mysteryi' j.ccording to Hailer women bear hunger longer than men; according t Plutsroh, they can resist the effects of wine better; ac cording tto Unger, they grow/ oider anud never bald;* ao carding to Pliny, tbey are seldomr attacked by lions (ot the ...

... -,PUBLICAMUStEMNS- Mr. D'ion'Bncicault's admrablaeIrishrmelodraama, Ar~rah.na.Pogue,wns reproduced at'this theatre on'! Mdonday evening, with scenery as splendid and deco- rations asbeautiful as when the play wask oiginally brdught ou~t here. in March, 1b. During the twe Cears hat' have' intervened, this drama has Deen played with marked.Iuceeessin AmErrca and AUstr- lia 'wbile its ...

... COVENT.GAREW CONCERTS, BAehlADVnv~r - q L 1 I n -L e E neesinoven's magnificent Symphony in C Minor .was the great eature of Thursday night's programme. An attempt was made to encore the Andante con Oito, but common sense; fob ,once, tri- umphed, and the Symphony was allowed to proceed in Troper order. The Setorzo and Allegro Mlarziale were ?? well played; and the classical division of the ...

... IMportant Invemtigation under the Copyright Act. At the Southwark Police-court, last Tuesday, Als. Robert Edtirn Villiers, the Proprietor of the South London AMusic Hall, Londo._ road, Southwvark, was summoned before Slr. Partridge, under the Copyright Act, 2Gth and 26th Vic., cap. 58, sec. 6, by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick, Lessees of the Surrey Theatre, for Stloat lie did copy and ...

... Agricultural Hail and Fairy Palace. With this night (Saturday's) grand miscellaneous concert the miusical season at the Agricultural Hall positively terminates. That the projectors of these concerts have found them reiunerative it the highest degree is beyond a doubt, and it is only fair to acknow- ledge that everything has been done to present itse public with mn entertainment worthy ...

... London is seldom without its Professor of Legerdemain, ule thit natural restieg-place of the honourably light-fiegered gentleiseii who produce a bewildering array of tin cups from a hat of flie period, soems to be ?? Hall. Signor(?) nubici comenni;ecl his s'eevnces in the Minor Psoom on Monday last. He speaks Eegli.ii uneommonly like a native, and may safely dety all Italy to apprs:ceb him in ...

... GOODI-NA TURED CRITICISM. NOT for the purpose of recurring to the particulars of the significant Circe business, but to show how the regular manufacture of such productions is fostered by good-natured critics, do we notice the matter now. The case itself is thoroughly and indisputably bad. The author of the im- posture was not indebted to a contemporary writer for an idea or a situation ...

... (WarTTN EuXPEYSLY iOR IT,, tPA.W) The opening of Mr. Coleman's new Theatre, which bas been fully described in these columins, was an event thet was looked forward to in Leeds with the utmost interest, and from an early hour on Monday last an eager and expectant crowd beslegod tlie doors, and SOOI after they were opened a dense mass filled every part of the Theatre, and when the superb centre ...

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... (FROMt OUlt OrTo CORRESPONDENTS) ALLOA. TlI~it., conceort seasons in. this stirring Scottish, town was Inaugurated on Monday lost with a musical ontertainment, isl which Miss eleni Icirk,1 Miss Emily ]Percival, and Air. T1. Maclavin wero thle ertlsis. Th po grainne woo felicioosly varied, SnO as to bring, Out t esta d te ooth ablihts of th e respective pdrformars. Miss Percival preshded o t th ...