... ROBERT COCKS.-- Nos. 4 and 9 of Popular Trios for Ladies' Voices are Farewell, by Curschmann, better known as Adieu, a lovely melody; and Parting, by R. Schumann; the English versions are by J ...

... THE OPERA.-- Mr. Augustus Harris on Wednesday issued the prospectus of the Royal Italian Opera, Drury Lane. He expressly states that he will produce no novelties, but will rely upon first-rate repre ...

... JAMES HEPBURN: FREE CHURCH MINISTER, by Sophia F. F. Veitch (2 vols.: Alexander Gardner), is an unquestionably able and even powerful novel. It has a distinct and lofty motive, the power of unselfis ...

... There is some good writing in Mrs. Coffin's new comic domestic drama, brought out at the Strand Theatre on Saturday with the title of Run Wild but its characters are the too-familiar puppets of the st ...

... THE SEASON MORIBUND.-- The musical season is now in its death-throes. On Friday of this week Sir Charles Hallé announced the last of his recitals, and on Monday Beethoven's Messe Solennelle will close ...

... SELF-IMITATION, at least when conscious and deliberate, seldom means the repetition of a success. The rule certainly holds good of Mr. William Black's The Strange Adventures of a House Boat (3 vols. ...

... EXPANDED stories are not often, perhaps indeed very seldom, successful. An exception, however, must very decidedly be made in favour of Katharine S. Macquoid's At the Red Glove (3 vols.: Ward and Do ...

... THE OPERA.-- The Royal Italian Opera will close next Saturday, and with it the summer musical season of 1888 will come to an end. Aida will be given to-night (Saturday), and both Boïto's Mefistofele a ...

... MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT'S visits to London are one unbroken series of triumphs. Her performance in Theodora last year, sombre and depressing as was the play and the part, was received with enthusiasm; ...

... ALTHOUGH the production of Mr. H. A. Jones's Saints and Sinners at the VAUDEVILLE has occasioned some disappointment, there -are features in this work of one of the authors of The Silver King which af ...

... OWING to the wish of Mr. Boucicault that a leading part in a new play of his, about to be produced in America, should be played by his son, Mr. Clayton has deemed it best to postpone the dramatised ve ...

... !:iiii!i!i:!::!iiiiiili!!!i!il!!iill!!i!ii!!tt!!i!i;l!l MR. C. S. SALMON'S Crown Colonies of Great Britain (Cassell) is, in its way, the most important of the books which this year's Exhibition has ...