... CAPTAIN FANNY, by the author of John Holdsworth, Chief Mate, &c. (3 vols: Bentley).-- The author of John Holdsworth, Chief Mate,-- who, by the bye, would greatly oblige reviewers by favouring th ...

... . J. B. CRAMER and Co., 201, Regent-street, publish four songs by Julia Woolf, a distinguished pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, and for many years past a popular pianiste. The words of the four songs are by Mr. C. J. Rowe. No. 1, Childhood, has a flowing melody, which cannot fail to recommend it to ama teurs. No. 2, A Song of the Dear Long-ago, also has a flowing melody, but is made up ...

... THE BALFE MEMORIAL FESTIVAL.-- If the crowd which flocked to the Alexandra Palace on Saturday may be accepted as a criterion, the Balfe Memorial Festival was a decided success. The desire to found a s ...

... . ALTHOUGH the dramatic season may be said at last to have terminated with the closing on Friday last week of the Court Theatre, where Mr. Hare has had a successful career with A Scrap of Paper and A Quiet Rubber, and of the Prince of Wales's last evening, the week has been far from uneventful, at the few theatres still remaining open, mostly under tempo rary or experimental management, as at ...

... . THIS theatre reopened on Saturday night for a short season of only two weeks, under the direction of the well-known theatrical manager and popular comedian and vocalist, Mr. J. A. Cave, who sustained his original character of Terence O'Moore in Mr. Wil liam Travers's Kathleen Mavourneen, which formed the principal item in a varied and attractive programme. This drama, for some years a ...

... . IT seems but the other day that we recorded the closing per formance of the Royal Italian Opera, on Saturday, July 15. We have now to record the re-opening of Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday last, August 5, when the first of this season's Prome nade Concerts was given. In the brief interval of three weeks, the aspect of the theatre has been almost completely changed. The pit is boarded ...

... iirKssssSssv7V?^^I| A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE, by George Parsons Lathrop (Osgood and Co., Boston), is one of those books that please without completely satisfying. By no means void of critical ability, ...

... THE THREE BRIDES, by Charlotte M. Yonge (2 vols: Macmillan).-- Miss Yonge generally succeeds in chronicling storms in teacups as amusingly and graphically as the thing can be done, but even her skil ...

... . I declare it is something quite deplorable! I cannot absent myself from my post for two or three weeks, in order to recruit my jaded spirits --On hill, in dale, forest, or mead, Or by the beachy margent of the sea, but abuses spring up in the the theatrical world the moment I have turned my back on town. Everything goes wrongly with out me. Frauds flourish, immorality increases, art ...

... Theatres IT has been affirmed by curious observers that it is possible to note the precise moment when the roar of traffic in London, which never altogether ceases, attains its minimum point, lying pr ...

... iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllliHilS DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, VON RICHARD WAGNER (Schott and Co.).-- The libretto of an opera is a thing as a rule dismissed lightly enough as a harm ...

... . Air. Boncicault's Irish drama Arrah-na-Pogue, recently revived here w h -onside able success, is now preceded by a comedietta entitled A Race for a Wife brought out on Saturday evening. Without much claim to originality, the little piece is lively and amusing, with the additional merit of brevity. Sir Peckham and Lady Wry quarrel over the choice of a husband for their daughter Isabella, for ...