... 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 ...

... T MR. ARTHUR CHAPPELL'S Popular Concerts were resumed in St. James's Hall on Monday last, greatly to the delight, if ap pearances may be trusted, of a faithful public. The room was crowded, and ...

... tt, TIJE. THEATRES SATURDAY-MORNING performances have always been a special feature of the GAIETY during die winter, and this year they are even more popular than usual. They differ from ordinary morn ...

... v In his latest novel, A Woman in Spite of Herself (Hurst and Blackett), Mr. Jeaffreson carries his readers into comparatively unexplored regions, for he lays the scene of the first half ...

... MESSRS. CRAMER, WOOD, AND Co.-- Among the recent pub- lications of this firm are two waltzes-- Flora, by Miss S. F. Heilbron, and Waverley, by L. Albrecht. The interest of the first is c ...

... CECIL'S TRYST, by the author of Lost Sir Massing berd (3 vols., Tinsley) is a story of striking events arising from unexpected development of character. You would never guess from your ...

... A NEW melodrama, entitled Nobody's Fortune, performed for the first time at the SURREY Theatre on Monday evening, is founded on a recently-published novel by Mr. Edmund Yates, which bears ...

... SIR BERNARD BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage (Harrison) has now entered its thirty-fourth edition; in itself a pretty good proof of the estimation with which this work is regarded by ...

... THE Bower Theatre is situated in Upper Marsh, Lambeth, which is exactly opposite to Lower Marsh, more generally known as the New Cut, and specially famous for its Sunday morning cost ...

... THE Crystal Palace managers being great observers of times and seasons, it was not at all likely that they would allow the sixty- third anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth to pass unnoticed, even ...

... MR. HENRY LESLIE began his season in St. James's Hall yes terday week with an assorted programme, containing all styles and classes of vocal music. National airs, for example, were represented ...

... THE engagement of M. and Madame Ravel at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre has been brought to a close this week, and henceforth Mdlle. Adèle Page will be the chief star of the company, while her a ...