... Theatres IT may perhaps be taken for a sign of the revival of pantomime that the Christmas entertainment, both at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, is somewhat weak in its opening story, and by no means r ...

... A DRAMATIST who, while writing a good play can at the same time illustrate a proposition in morals, may fairly claim the credit of a double triumph; but, after all, a play must be judged as a work of ...

... HUBERT FREETH'S PROSPERITY, by Mrs. Newton Crosland, author of The Diamond Wedding, &c. (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett).-- This is a very readable book, written with a fair share of ability, though i ...

... eKu Sic) THERE is little to record just now in the musical way. The second Christmas performance of the Messiah, by Mr. William Carter, with his band and choir of nearly 1,000, drew a not very crowd ...

... I eRusic) jj MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.-- The first Concert of the New Year offered several points of interest. The instrumental concerted pieces were the third quartet of Schumann, the 5th sonata for p ...

... MAD-DUMARESQ, by Mrs. Ross-Church (3 vols., Bentley). --There is always go enough in Mrs. Ross-Church's novels to make them readable, though neither morally nor artistically can we regard them wit ...

... ipSfep >1 [7: -Hf-I I CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.-- The resumption of the Saturday Concerts after the Christmas recess is a sign that the winter musical season has begun again in good earnest. Why amate ...

... A CONSIDERABLE portion of those who will go to the ROYALTY Theatre to see the comedy entitled Ought We to Visit Her? will probably be already acquainted with Mrs. Edwardes's novel of that name, which ...

... I 1 V\'V> A rj\ 1 0M I To that large section of the British public which desires just now a nearer view of the Court and Statesmen of Russia, the little volume of translations from the German, Disti ...

... rr-- \\W /S S s eKusie) SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.-- The revival of Dr. Crotch's Palestine at Exeter Hall was a creditable undertaking on the part of the Sacred Harmonic Society, which has not only to k ...

... Theatres MR. GILBERT has furnished the GLOBE THEATRE with an amusing farcical comedy, founded upon the piece entitled Le Réveillon, which has recently been performed with great success by the French c ...

... Xs ()4 TRANSMIGRATION, by Mortimer Collins (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett).-- Mr. Mortimer Collins' novels have always been apt to be more or less mad, but in this case the madness is pre meditated, a ...