... At Gilmore's Gardens, on Mr y 1 1 th, Offenbach made his first appearance in America before an audience of about five thousand persons. The programme comprised selections from Vert Vert Belle Helhie La Grande Duchcssc, Le Roi Carotte, Lajolie Par- fumeuse, concluding with a pot-pourri of the composer's most popular melodies. The performance was decidedly successful. On the same evening the ...

... . THE air of mystery which was flung round the authorship of The Great Divorce Case when it was first produced at the Cri terion Theatre, had a diverting effect, highly conducive to the more favourable reception of the piece. What writers of dis tinction, or persons of quality are concealed behind the fictitious John Doe and Richard Roe was the profoundly interesting ques tion which the piqued ...

... . NOTWITHSTANDING the praiseworthy efforts at improvement by the wholesale condensation of the five acts into three, the ill fated drama of Abel Drake failed to enlist the sympathies of the public, and was withdrawn on Saturday night, after its seventh representation at the Princesses, where it has been replaced by Lord Lytton's play of The Lady of Lyons, in which Miss Rose Coghlan essayed for ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- It is not very likely that Romeo e Giulietta will ever become a popular work-- that is, popular in the sense of the wide-spread favour attained and merited by its predecessor, F ...

... Theatres SIGNOR ROSSI'S performance of Romeo presented him in a widely different character from any he has hitherto attempted here, and may therefore be said to have indicated the range of his powers, ...

... THE English version Of L'Etraugère produced at the HAYMARKET Theatre, on Saturday evening, can hardly be said to have occasioned disappointment, for few persons who knew anything of the original play ...

... S\\VN\W eMsUSlC) ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- At the last performance of Don Giovanni Madame Adelina Patti replaced Mdlle. Zaré Thalberg in the character of Zerlina, making the rustic coquette as attrac tiv ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AN ENGLISH VERSION OF L'ETRAN GERE. ALEXANDRE DUMAS'S LAST WORK. Act I. The House of the Duchess. Mauriceau. Having amassed great wealth by trade I desired naturally to make of my daughter a lady. To accomplish this Doctor Remonin. You married her to an individual, in person contemptible, with the morals of a debauched marker of billiards, and the manners of a jumper of ...

... 8j^ AS Polonius's exhaustive catalogue of the various forms of dra matic entertainment does not, if we remember right, include a comic tragedy, the author of a new piece produced at the CHARING CROS ...

... . WHEN Captain Matthew Webb essayed his remarkable feat of swimming across the Straits of Dover I am sure he did not anticipate as one of the results of his success that he would be converted into an itinerant missionary to preach the necessity of swimming, to every creature. Yet to this end has he come, and it cannot be denied that his present occupation, of lecturing in various popular halls ...

... ISRAEL MORT, OVERMAN: A Story of the Mine, by John Saunders, author of Abel Drake's Wife, &c. (3 vols.: H. S. King and Co.).-- It is not an unpleasant novelty, once in a way, to come across a stor ...

... MESSRS. J. B. CRAMER AND CO.-- Already we are familiar with the tuneful and sparkling music of Offenbach's lively opera, Le Voyage dans la Lune. Some of the catching melodies are whistled in the stree ...