... accompanied ii such a way 'hat the wvords are melodious beyond the power of expression. The whole of Miss Ward's acting aud speaking was superb, and at her exit the audience were not deterred by the singing of the chorus from according loud and prolonged ...

... notion of the requirements of the part; there too is Robert Brierly, the Lancashire lad, represented by Mr R. H. Maclure, who speaks a very mixed dialect, in which the regions of Cockaigne are not altogether forgotten. He puts his shoulders up into his ears ...

... great attraction was Leah, with Miss Julia Seaman in the title-role. We have so frequently had occasion in these columns to speak in the highest praise of this gifted lady's abilities that we need only add that the character was most faithfully rendered ...

... with the work of Msyerbssr. We shall take another opportunity to analyse the music ; in ties meantime it is only justice to speak of the very beautiful and complete scores just published by Messrs Ricordi of Milan. There is a vocal acd pianoforte editiec ...

... totally different creation from the con- ception of Shakespeare. The great genius of that accom- plished lady forced, so to speak, an ideal upon the public which it can be plainly seen was inconsistent in many features with the Lady Macbeth of the poet ...

... judgment he would be a very fair actor. We may give to both gentlemen the hint Hamlet gave to the Players, to let their Clowns speak only what is set down for them. Messrs Shackleton and Williamson were both sinners in this respect, and in one instance descended ...

... artistes, he did not exaggerate, and also sang the music with excellent articulation and good tone, so that we are enabled to speak of Signor Fio-ini as a thoroughly successful debutante. Signor Romani as Basiho was clever, and the Figaro of Signor Del Puente ...

... an idea what Queen Mab was like. We will not set down aught in malice, at the same time we will not extenuate, but will speak of Alr Godfrey's pro- duction according to its merits. We would, however, first counsel him to avoid that besetting sin of ...

... assembled beneath the ample foliage of the trees in the garden of the Golden Plough, and we hear the Doctor say that he could not speak -eln of Martin at the trial that day, when asked if there had ever been any cause for ill-feeling between him and the deceased ...

... Le Voy, Leclerq, and Pemberton have been pro- ductive of the most uproarious merriment, and we can have no hesitation in speaking of them as the funniest fellows out. The wonderful contrast in height between the two first-named artistes is in itself a ...

... above the Care- less Bores, people who do not consider how their cul- pable negligence may affect others. 'We will now speak of another kind of bore-a female one, we are sorry to say. This is the bore who builds up such a mountain of millinery on the ...

... playwrights with an almost uniform want of success, that is to say success of a literary character, for it is that of which we speak. The gifted author of Cerise abandoned his dramatic version of that interesting novel after he had almost, if not quite, ...