... Theatres A NEW comedietta, by Mr. Theyre Smith, produced at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre on Saturday evening, with the title of Old Cronies, is but a dramatic trifle-- a mere dialogue, in fact, between two ...

... Theatres MADAME MODJESKA'S first appearance in England has not disappointed even the high expectations founded upon the popularity of this accomplished actress in the United States. She played the par ...

... Theatres *10111 The management of the Gaiety Theatre are about to gratify the admirers of what are known as the palmy days of the drama by reviving a number of forgotten pieces produced in bygone time ...

... CHRISTMAS ROOK'S VII. VERY tantalising indeed is M. Jules Verne's Steam House (S. Low), translated by A. D. Kingston, as only the first part is published. Here is the usual mixture of the true and t ...

... CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Not that we have got Mr. Rosa and his company back again we may fairly look forward to a series of operatic performances in all respects deserving public support. This ent ...

... t! JCusic) ll POPULAR CONCERTS.-- As the season draws rapidly to a close public interest in these thoroughly well-managed entertainments seems to increase. Joseph Joachim, it is time, plays, with ...

... Forestalled; or, The Life-Quest, by M. Betham Edwards (2 vols., Hurst and Blackett). The existence of Mr. Wilkie Collins' Moonstone is a sufficient bar to any claim for originality of plot on the pa ...

... POPULAR CONCERTS.-- At the first Saturday afternoon concert Schumann's quartet in A major, last of the three dedicated-- in inniger Verchrung:-- to Mendelssohn, was admirably played by MM. Straus, Ri ...

... 1.1 lHH j MR. R. SPENCE WATSON'S Visit to Wazan (Macmillan) describes a feat which no other European has accomplished. Wazan is a sacred city, founded late in the seventeenth century by a holy man, ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The return of Madame Albani was welcomed, as had been anticipated, by a crowded and brilliant audience. Saturday at the Royal Italian Opera indeed was a gala night, at which the ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- Of three songs for which Francis Hueffer has composed the music, My Love, My Own is the prettiest; a tenor with a small voice will find this a telling song, of mediu ...

... 1 6f\ I j 1 iilll I HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-- There is little to chronicle about the doings at this theatre since our last. In consequence of the rehearsals for Signor Tito's opera, Maria di Gand, anno ...