... VI. CAPTAIN JACK, by Charles M'Knight (Frederick Warneand Co.) is a dashing, spirited story of Indian adventure, pleasantly tempered with a fresh, healthy tone of romance and sentime ...

... MESSRS. R. COCKS AND CO.-- A standard work for students past, present, and future is Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum. From thence W. H. Callcott has judiciously selected twelve studies, and published ...

... THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. THE pantomime here was an entirely new version of a popular fairy tale, constructed principally with the view of pleasing juvenile tastes, called, Beauty and the Beast; or, Gog and Magog, the Butterfly Prince, and the Realms of Flowers. In the opening scene we are introduced to the famous City giants, and, after various allusions to the topics of ...

... THE GLOBE THEATRE. BLUE BEARD. This theatre opened on Christmas Eve with Blue Beard, which, after a most successful run at the Charing Cross Theatre, has now formed a new home at Mr. Fairlie's little house in New- castle-street. The piece, although re-written in parts, and intro ducing here and there fresh comic situations, is practically the same as it wa3 originally, and we are treated to ...

... (Sitr C^ticriis Critic. I FANCY everybody must be more or less captious during this season of the year. It is a long time since I have been able to take a gleeful and childlike interest in the Christian festival. To me the exhilarating period has a most gloomy significance. Now tradesmen send in their little hills. Now the wife of my bosom insists on my giving entertainments to the relatives ...

... THE NEW GRAND OPERA AT PARIS.-- All difficulties MM. Halanzier and de Villemessant notwithstanding, are now arranged. Madame Christine Nilsson will sing, and the per formance, a gala one (to which v ...

... H^T^E S How many times, and in how many forms, the gorgeous Oriental tale of Aladdin has been put upon the stage, is a ques tion which, perhaps, even Dr. Doran would find it difficult to answer. From ...

... {}c Drama. NOW THAT all the pantomimes, more numerous on the present Christmas than for many previous winters, are before the public, they may be pronounced to be, on the whole, of superior excel lence. While all exhibit great care and lavish expenditure in their production, there are distinctive features in each to render them individually attractive, and the majority are characterised by a ...

... Scbtcfos. Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. By Sir Samuel W. Baker, Pacha, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., &c. 2 vols. (London: Macmillan & Co., 1874.) The Khedive's real object in sending a strong and well-equipped expedition to the lake districts of Central Africa was unquestion ably to make a ...

... OFFENBACH'S AVHITTINGTON.' [second notice.] DURING the Christmas season, pantomime is triumphant, and it is very rarely that at such a time any important musical novelty is presented. It must also be admitted that it is disadvantageous, to a work of such importance as a three-act opera, that it should have to compete with a host of other novelties. There is great probability that it may fail ...

... K\]t rartta. THE pantomimes have now got into smooth working order, and have drawn overflowing houses since the mitigation of the severe weather last Saturday, a change which has been equally felt by the other theatres which retain their previous programmes, without any special change for Christmas. The day perform ances, more numerous this year than they have over been before, have also been ...

... ur Cagtlaus Critic. WHEN a man has succeeded in placing himself prominently before the British Public, a curiosity at once natural and com mendable is evinced by that public to know something more of his history than can he gleaned in the course of ordinary con versation. Our biographical lore is indeed lamentably wanting in information concerning contemporary celebrities, and even Men of the ...