... Music intended for notice in the Monthly Iteview of New Music, on the Inst Saturday of each month, must he sent on or before the previous Saturday. Benefit Concerts will not (as a rule) be noticed, unless previously adver tised in our columns. AVESTMINSTER ROYAL AQUARIUM. THE only important musical event of recent date is the opening of the Westminster Aquarium, which, we are led to hope, will ...

... licMriufi. The Topular Idol. By William Mackay. In two volumes. London: Richard Beutley aud Sou. [second notice.] Mr. Mackay is not happy in his descriptions of feminine beauty or, perhaps, to do him a sort of negative justice, it should be said that he-- obviously capable of much better work-- has contented himself with describing his heroines in an aggravatingly perfunctory manner. His ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.-- At the concert on Saturday Mr. Oscar Beringer played Rubinstein's pianoforte concerto in G major (No. 3)-- the one introduced some time since by Dr. Hans von Bülow at the Ph ...

... . THE programme of the last Saturday concert at the Crystal Palace was an exemplification of that leading characteristic of these concerts to which we have often referred. At every con- cert some novelty is produced; and the audience are safe from the infliction of listening to frequent repetitions of hackneyed pieces. For, there is this double advantage attached to the regular production of ...

... (Dur (^aptaa ^rilir. THERE is a species of dramatic play which has for years been so much my favourite diversion that I have almost believed nothing could disenchant me of it. I mean that rare old abduction-and-murder sort of melodrama which I have been in the habit of going to witness at certain transpontine theatres and divers of the sort called gaffs in the Far East. Unhappily, I have ...

... A NEW EXTRAVAGANZA, brought out at the CRITERION Theatre on Monday last, with the title of Piff-Paff, is founded upon one of those French fairy pieces in which the Parisian public take a curious delig ...

... . We are happy to announce that Mr. Carl Rosa will open the Lyceum Theatre this year for an eleven weeks' season of English Opera. Several important novelties, including an English version of Wagner's Flying Dutchman, will he pre sented. The spring provincial tour of the Carl Rosa Opera Company will commence on March 11, among the first towns to he visited being Manchester, Liverpool, Hanley, ...

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... mliiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|il|i|ii! SKETCHES OF AUSTRALIAN LIFE AND SCENERY, by One who has been a Resident for Thirty Years (S. Low and Co.), is one of those volumes which, under the outward semb ...

... ltatc. Music intended for notice in the Monthly Jleuiew of New Music, on the last Saturday of each month, must he sent on or before the previous Saturday. Benefit Concerts will not (as a rule) be noticed, unless previously adver tised in onr columns. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS. At the Crystal Palace concert of Saturday last the followiug selection of music was performed Intermezzo and Scherzo (MS ...

... ivCl'iClU.'i. All the World Over. Vol. II. London: Thos. Cook and Sox. This is the Cook's Tourist Magazine par excellence and, in the best sense of the phrase, it is worthy of him. Although the traveller whom Mr. Cook's world-wide enterprise has called into being has become a standing joke with writers of bur lesque, and playwrights of similar calibre; and is too fre quently used to give ...

... I Theatres 5| -v J- v w MR. TOM TAYLOR'S new play, entitled Anne Boleyn, pro duced at the HAYMARKET Theatre on Saturday evening last, is rather a series of scenes in the life of his heroine than a dr ...