... MRS. HORACE DOBELL is very angry that the author of John Halifax should, in Young Mrs. Jardine, have dared to stigma tise women in general as feeble and useless, and to say that the man who has ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Mr. Gye's prospectus is not the less welcome on account of its brevity and the absence of official comments which, unless self-laudatory, can have little or no sig nificance. It ...

... THE management of the Gaiety Theatre have this week revived Sheridan's Critic, which on the whole receives at the hands of Mr. Hollingshead's company an interpretation considerably above the average m ...

... Co-operative M.D.'s.- Presiding at the first dinner in aid of the Hospital for Women, Prince Christian remarked on the fact that the institution in question, which was commenced in 1842, was the fir ...

... EVERY one feels for Cowper, suffering from the most terrible form of constitutional malady; but few are so formed as to feel with him, and of these few Professor Goldwin Smith would scarcely claim to ...

... v-:-- AN ARTFUL WIDOW, by Vernon St. Clair (Tinsley Bros.). --Last year a series of articles appeared in The Times, headed Anglo-Indian Society. They created a certain amount of amuse ment at home ...

... V//- 'Y-i'N V^v r eKusic) jj HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-- The extra season, under Mr. Armit's direction, closes to-night. Aïda was repeated on Saturday afternoon, and the eternal (never unwelcome) Carmen- ...

... N AWYW/ A /7 ft\\ E ReA£>E*\/ i/V A /V .V/A X -oo-.v ->J A MAN must have a wonderful enthusiasm for ornithology to let it take him to the Petchora and keep him for nine weeks close by that unattractiv ...

... Ife;. SKIN-DISEASE is almost as great a bugbear now as it was during the Crusades. It has a literature of its own, and hospitals and specialists-- aye, even a nomenclature. Fancy being afflicted with ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- That Gounod's more than ever popular Faust e Margherita would be produced early in Mr. Gye's season, with such a representative of the heroine at hand as Madame Albani, might ha ...

... THE special interest that is ordinarily excited by the opening of 2 new theatre may be said, in the case of the New Princess's, to have been entirely merged in the curiosity of the audience of Saturda ...

... POPULAR CONCERTS.-- Mr. Arthur Chappell has commenced his twenty-third season in a manner at once unpretentious, dignified, and becoming. The programme of Monday night was exactly what we are entitled ...