... THE A TRES THE extraordinary interest which has been manifested in the reopening of the LYCEUM Theatre under the management of Mr. Irving betokens an impression that hitherto that distinguished actor, ...

... . On Boxing Night Mr. Walter Gooch revived Mr. Charles Reade's drama, entitled It's Never Too Late to Mend. It will be remembered that upon the first production of this play at the above theatre, about thirteen years ago, one of the scenes was provocative of severe disapprobation. Now from beginning to end the play is received with something approaching enthusiasm; therefore we may conclude ...

... . Mr. Charles Morton, ever on the alert, has provided a new at traction at the Alhambra Theatre, in an English version of MM. Dennery and Clairville's piece, La Pottle aux (Eufs d'Or, and the French title has been retained, possibly because The Goose with the Golden Eggs would have been suggestive of pantomime. The English adaptor, Mr. Frank Hall, has been condemned for the manner in which his ...

... . OF all the institutions that annual upset British Slomach, and through the B.S. the British Mind, commend me to dear old Christmas as by far the most successful. Bear old Father Christmas has been limned from time to time in various makes- up. He is generally a rollicking, robust old gentleman, with a wreath of holly round his head, a warm robe of brown trimmed with fur; in one hand he holds ...

... THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. WE last week made a somewhat serious and curious blunder in attributing to the Messrs. Routledge a new edition of the above work with illustrations really issued by Messrs. Ward and Lock, to whose courtesy we were indebted for the loan of blocks. A Tragedy Indeed. By H. MainwARING DuNSTAN. 2 vols. Remington and Co. This novel can be conscientiously com mended to ...

... . STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER,& CO., 84, New Bond-street.-- Autumn Leaves, price 3s., song; words and music by E. P. Freake. There is poetical sentiment in the words of this song, but they greatly need revision. Such rhymes as gone and forlorn are forbidden, and grammar is defied in such lines as-- Poor withered leaves thy {sic) day of beauty is gone. The melody, though not very original, is ...

... . To say that Mr. living's most recent revival of Shakspeare's tragedy of Hamlet is in many important respects of far higher excellence than his previous rendering is to say very much indeed, but it is no more than the truth. If there be nothing in Mr. Irving's performance of the destiny-haunted Danish prince to thrill an audience, yet the even intellectuality of it throughout is an artistic ...

... MACLEOD OF DARE, by William Black, with illustrations, (3 vols.: Macmillan).-- The work we have from Mr. Black is as highly finished as ever, but one can hardly resist the impression that there is g ...

... . Music is at this season of the year displaced by the flood of Christmas holiday entertainments, and it is therefore with pecu liar pleasure that we greet the arrival of The Little Quiriti, a juvenile troop of Italian operatic singers, who have made a most successful début at the Ciiterion Theatre. The little artists --fifty in all-- have become renowned in Italy, and deserve a hearty ...

... THE DRAMA. ROYALTY THEATRE. AN entire change of programme at the cosy little house in Dean-street testifies to the energy of Miss Kate Santley, and we are sorry to observe that this lady's earnest efforts to cater for her audiences in a way that will be at once agreeable to them and blameless in the eyes of the irresponsible authority who is allowed to rule London managers, have met with the ...

... . BETWEEN the Victoria Theatre and Astley's the patron age of the New Cut and the Lower Marsh is divided. The rorty pals with their doxies prefer the Wic when the bloodthirsty muse of melodrama, but at Christmas time, when pantomime reigns, I fancy Billie, and 'Arry, and Emmar, and the rest of them hie them to Hashley's, for have they not there, in addition to all the gorgeousuess of ...

... MESSRS. NEUMEYER AND CO.-- It is to be regretted that Carli Zoeller writes so rapidly, the result is that we get more than a due amount of indifferent compositions mixed with many that are excellent; ...