... THAT genuine embarrassment may be caused, even in these unromantic times, by the inability of somebody or other to obtain legal evidence of a marriage is shown by the occasional appearance in the news ...

... MR. CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Although Mr. Carl Rosa was, unfortunately, still too much indisposed on Saturday to occupy his accustomed post as conductor, he was furnished with an admirable substit ...

... SEBASTIAN STROME, by Julian Hawthorne (3 vols.: Bentley). --This is a story of very great power, though the power is dis played with much irregularity, and is at times perhaps scarcely visible. We s ...

... MR. TOOLE'S reappearance on the stage of the FOLLY Theatre, after an absence of some weeks, constitutes in itself a substantial addition to the entertainments of the metropolis. The severe illness fro ...

... MR. CARL ROSA'S COMPANY.-- That The Taming of the Shrew is a genuine artistic success, and that it is destined to become a stock-piece in the repertory of our Opera in English, may now be taken for ...

... THE GREATEST HEIRESS IN ENGLAND, by Mrs. Oliphant (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett).-- In inventiveness Mrs. Oliphant shows herself here as richly endowed as ever, but her power of working out her ideas ...

... FOLLY THEATRE. The comedy, Cyril's Success, is undoubtedly one of the best of its author's plays. Whilst its dialogue is characterised by all the briskness and sparkle which makes an audience feel sure of being entertained by Mr. Byron's work, it springs far more naturally and inevitably from the situation than is often the case where the conversation of comedy aims at the manufacture of ...

... . BOHEMIA and the manners supposed to be characteristic of that ill-defined social district have long supplied novelists and dramatists with some amongst their favourite subjects. Apart from the romantic charm conventionally attached to a reckless existence, whose mottoes are fay ce que voudras and let the morrow take care of itself, Bohemianism has for most play goers and novel-readers all ...

... . OF all the half-hearted merry-makings the efforts of theatri cal managers to supply Christmas fare this winter seem to be the worst. Whether they have been in a more than ordinary degree affected by the general depression consequent upon bad trade, or the delightful weather, or the rollicking list of topics which the events of the year present to them for humorous comment, it would be hard ...

... . At the 8th London Ballad Concert of the current season, given last week at St. James's Hall, the latter half of the concert was devoted to Irish ballads. Amongst the principal artists were Mmes. Edith Wynne, Cummings, Damian, andDavies; MM. Lloyd, Santley, Maybriek, Moore, and Sims Reeves, with Mr. John Cheshire as solo harpist, Mr. Sidney Naylor as solo pianist and aeeompagnateur, and the ...

... . DURING the past week three operas have been added to the repertory of the current operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre. Respecting Maritana, produced on Saturday last, it will not he necessary to do more than to briefly notice the quality of the performance, and to record the fact that Vincent Wallace's popular opera drew an audience almost as numerous as that attracted on the previous ...

... . IN Messrs. Conquest and Spry's twenty-second bright and clever Christmas pantomime, Harlequin Sokoko, the Rock Fiend; or, Kingdoms Three, the Toad, the Bee, and the Tree, the gro tesquely-weird and strange, fantastic, fairy-like, and beautiful are blended with masterly effect. It has been placed upon the stage with a perfection of skill and care, which is carried into every detail of its ...