... MESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO.-- These spirited publishers, by adding Auber's Masaniello to their Royal Edition of Operas, have placed every admirer of the tuneful French master under no common ob ...

... MRS. STEELE is never wanting in courage; and in Broken Toys (3 vols., Chapman and Hall) she faces her subject bravely. Fashionable frivolity and fashionable vice are her main materials; a ...

... A NEW burlesque by Mr. Reece at the VAUDEVILLE is a decided success. Its title is The Very Last Days of Pompeii, and its fun consists chiefly in a travesty of the scenes in Mr. Oxenford's ...

... DR. GEORGE MACDONALD'S new story, Wilfrid Cumber mede (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett), is in autobiographical form. The hero traces, with more purpose than is at first apparent, the history ...

... THE operatic prospectus is a necessary appendage to the sub scription system upon which operas are given among ourselves. Those who pay large sums for the right of enjoying entertain ments to co ...

... MR. MONTAGUE has scarcely been fortunate in the selection of his second piece for the GLOBE. Forgiven is a poor substitute for Partners for Life, and Mr. James Albery is not at Iris best ...

... LORD KILGOBBIN. A Tale of Ireland in our own Time. By Charles Lever, LL.D. (3 vols., Smith & Elder). Mr. Lever is a veteran with whom time has dealt very gently. In Lord Kilgobbin, his ...

... THEATRICAL novelties of importance are now generally post poned to Easter, which falls a week earlier this year than last, a fact of some importance to the managers, for the Easter season ...

... MR. GYE'S prospectus, gives hope of a brilliant season at the Royal Italian Opera. In the first place, it announces the return of nearly all the favourite artists of last year. Madame Patti come ...

... THE Royal Italian Opera season began on Tuesday evening, in the quiet style usual under such circumstances. However much our impresarios may blow their own trumpets in the prospectus, they alway ...

... THE number of entirely new pieces announced for production on Monday next is certainly not behind the average of preceding Eastern. After all, Easter Monday, though a great day in the the ...

... THE new comedy, Shilly Shally, by Anthony Trollope and Charles Reade, at the GAIETY Theatre, is scarcely worthy of the well-known names that are attached to it. It is a weak, but amusing ...