... REPETITION performances have been the rule lately at Covent Garden Theatre; and we have only to notice the exception pre sented on Monday, when Don Giovanni was given. A large audience assembled ...

... A NEW comedy, from the pen of Mr. H. T. Craven, author of Milky White and The Postboy, has been introduced at the Royal COURT Theatre, the author, according to his custom, sustaining the ...

... THE Adventures of Harry Richmond (3 vols. Smith, Elder, and Co.) Mr. Mereaith's novel reminds us some what of Turner's famous picture, The Fighting Témeraire. Both display much genius a ...

... PROMINENT among the musical gift-books of the coming season will be Christmas Carols, New and Old, published by Messrs. Novello, Ewer, and Co. Nativity hymns enjoy their full share of the ...

... Les Huguenots was played, for the first time this season, at the Royal Italian Opera on Saturday last. Those who best know the exacting nature of Meyerbeer's great work will most easily under st ...

... THE author, of Mine Own Familiar Friend, the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Montgomery (3 vols. Hurst and Blackett), sums up the introductory account of her heroine by saying: Such was the home and su ...

... MR. MAPLESON reserved for the last days of his season the production of two works, which are fair types of their respective classes; one-- Robert le Diable-- representing the most elaborate and ...

... As a rule, the musical entertainments given immediately before Christmas are few; but, just now, fewness is not their only characteristic. The feeling excited by the prolonged struggle between l ...

... 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 ...