... THE PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. MR. VIN'ING, advertising the revival of the popular Irish drama of Arral- na-Pogue, records with pardonable pride that it has been represented in Paris and throughout the French provinces, the United States, California, and Australia, carrying with it a measure of delight unequalled by any drama in modern times excepting its twin sister, the 'Colleen Bawn.' ...

... NVEW BOOK'S AND NVEW EDITIONS. The Grecian Maid, and other Poems. By Ckarles L. D. Cumming. (London: Griffith and Farran.) Although a large portion of this little book is- the fruit cf ti'e suthoi's poetical studies prior to attaining his majority, Mr. Cumming makes it an express stipulation with his critics that his poems shall be judged entirely upon their own merits, irrespective ...

... FOR L O VE. IN his new play, entitled For Love, produced at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday night, Mr. Robertson would seem to have set himself the task of expanding a plot suitable to a comedietta into the subject of a long melodrama in three acts. The story of For Love is of the slightest and simplest kind. One John Wyse, a young physician, is deeply attached, and has been almost ...

... PIG-S TICKING.* IT is amusing to observe the point of view from which the sportsman in India regards whole districts of that favoured land. He obviously considers that the noble end for which they exist is to provide him with game. A large tract of country is thickly grown with jungle, through which crop out here and there rocky stretches of barren land, not a habitation or a road to be seen ...

... THE NE v Q JEEN'S THEA TRE. ON Thursday nioht the theatre which has been for some months in coarse of construction wvithin the -walls of what used to be called St. Martin's Hall, in Long-acre, was opened to the public. The house, which is to be called The New Queen's, is apparently rather larger than the Lyceumi, and without doubt a handsome addition to the list of London theatres. The ...

... ELIZABETHAN DRAMA TISTS.-No. VIII. .7OHN FOJTD.* OF all the dramatists John Ford is by far the most pathetic. More than any other he commands the source of our tears, the hidden spring of our tender emotions or, to use the phrase of Aristotle, Ford, of all that eloquent race, is the most tragical -7paytKuTrwror. It is trie that we find in Ford's plays none of the unaffected sentiment which ...

... YIRE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEA TRE. THE Prince of Wales's Theatre reopened on Saturday night with a per- formance of Mr. Robertson's comedy of Caste, the most successful production of last season. The run of this play has been suspended in London for sormie two months, but it must not be understood that the plaoers engaged in its representation have therefore been enjoying a holiday. and are ...