... K\ )t Drama. The few theatres still remaining open received a temporal' addition on Saturday last, in tho reopening of the Lyceum an Princess's, each for a series of farewell performances the forme by Mr. Charles Morton, for his Philharmonic Opera Bonll ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE GOLDEN PLOUGH. Act I. Opening Chorus. Under a spreading old oak tree, The Golden Plough it stands The hostess, Mistress Royal she, Her business understands. And in the true Adelplii way, Portending crime and blood, The drama opens, which you'll say Is really very good Although, as always is the case, In dramas of the kind, Impossibilities take place, Such things you ...

... RIVER AND DOWN; OE, THE ROMANCE OF A DOCTOR'S LIFE. In Six Scenes. By W\ W. Fknn, Author of 44 Half-hours of a Blind Marts Holiday Scene I. HELP! HELP! you there in the barge.-- help, I say-- lend a hand here, will you, and be quick! A loud shout in answer. Hold on, sir, I bee's coming; let your boat drift into them reeds, and I'll come round to the bank. A pause the tramp of heavy feet ...

... POETS AND PLAYERS IN THE DAYS OF SHAKSPEAEE. ANOTHER STROLL ON THE BANKSIDE. pabt m. Continued from page 590.) THOMAS NASH, between whom and Gabriel Harvey there was much spilling of good ink and bad blood, was another of the older dissipated and reckless poets, who joined Greene in attacking Shakspeare. In the Return from Parnassus, an anonymous play to which we have already alluded as one ...

... LOVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for this paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER XII. PAUL had not concealed from Gabrielle that Eugene Noriac had formerly been acquainted with Zita Denman and her friends. But, in explaining his reasons for renewing these relations, M. Noriac had acted with his usual diplomacy. Otherwise, Gabrielle might have entertained suspicions when she saw him ...

... . OF all known ways of reaching Canterbury during the Cricket Week none can compare with a seat on the top of a drag, if some Old Stager who happens to be going down can find the traveller a place. To begin with, the journey is not pleasant it may be, for the tramways which form networks all round London have to be crossed, and few things can be more irri tating to horse, driver, or passenger ...

... . BEYOND the continued and deserved success of Diplomacy at the Prince of Wales's; the decided hit made by Mr. Toole as Chawles in the new comedy, A Fool and his Money, written specially for him, produced at the Globe, on Thursday last week, and which is noticed below; and the re-opening of the Philhar monic Theatre, on Wednesday evening, with a revival of Offen bach's Genevieve de Brabant; ...

... Whatever influence sport and pastime mav have brought to bear upon the upper crust of society, there can be no doubt that the cause of muscular Christianity has been well served by those directing the tastes of the middle classes, which may not inaptly be termed the backbone of the English nation. We are not about to discuss the question of how far the amusements of the rich have been the ...

... £f)e Drama. THERE is but little to record of the leading English theatres this week--the principal changes being confined to three of the four regular dramatic houses simultaneously occupied by com panies of French artistes. As might have been anticipated from the tone of their letter in our last number, Messrs. Valnay and Pitron, directors of the French plays at the Princess's, were ...

... W[ ]t Drama. OF the several dramatic events to be chronicled during the week, the most important are the reopening on Saturday night last of the Opéra Comique, under the management of Miss Amy Sheridan, and of the Grand National Amphitheatre (late Astleys, the long familiarised name to which people still fondly cling), by the Messrs. Sanger. Miss Sheridan's managerial programme consisted of ...

... Ety Drama. The leading event of the week has beon the opening of Covont Garden, on Saturday evening, for the autumnal series of prome nade concerts by Messrs. A. and S. Gatti, whose spirit and enter prise in their first essay as entrepreneurs for these popular and at tractive entertainments rendered the promenade concerts here last year so eminently successful. That the present season will ho ...

... . S. W. F.-- John Poole, the author of Paul Pry, was buried at Highgate Cemetery in 1872. SAML CORDING.-- The parts which you name in the Two Roses were played-- 1, by Mr. Irving; 2, by Mr. Honey; and 3, by Miss Amy Fawsitt. A. ASHBURY. --There was a tavern called the Boar's Head, in Shakspeare's time, and as it stood close by the Blackfriars playhouse, it may have been one frequented by ...