... CRYSTAL PALACE,-- At the fifth Saturday performance the programme contained two novelties-- a concert-overture by Mr. T. Wingham, and a symphonic poem by Friederic Smétana-- both interesting if for ...

... THE playgoers who have complained that the new piece at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre deals with an unpleasant theme, cannot at least pretend that they have been taken by surprise; for Mr. Philips, who in ...

... The reopening of the St. James's Theatre under the management of Mr. Hare and Mr. and Mrs. Kendal has been the occasion of the revival of the late Mr. Robertson's Home, a comedy written expressly for ...

... MISS FOTHERGILL, having mastered a certain limited number of characters and situations, appears to be content with her position, and to consider repetition of herself the better part of invention. Her ...

... MR. EDWIN BOOTH has exchanged the part of Cardinal Richelieu in the late Lord Lytton's play for that of Bertuccio in The Tool's Revenge. This is perhaps the finest, and is certainly the most elabo rat ...

... IOLANTHE. --That Mr. Arthur Sullivan, in partnership with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, his alter ego of several years' standing, has merited and won a new success would seem to be unanimously, and on fair gro ...

... BALDNESS, unfortunately, is a subject which has a present or prospective interest for most people; even the medical student may find himself attracted to it by a grim spell of personal curiosity as we ...

... WITH the recollection of For Percival upon us, it need hardly be said that in Damocles (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.). Margaret Veley has written an able and thoughtful novel. It is most unlikel ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- It is no easy task to conduct a cotillon, as it is technically called; you may almost as well execute a symphony without a conductor, as to get safely through the mazes of ...

... eMsUSIC) J OPÉRA COMIQUE.-- That the Pirates of Penzance would prove a brilliant success in London was to be expected after the unanimous verdict of approval delivered upon its immediate precursor, H. ...

... 4/8^ I )s MY LAND OF BEULAH (Tinsley Bros.).-- There are few people who will read these volumes without feeling grateful to Mrs. Leslie Adams for having rescued the stories they contain from the com ...

... w\v\ w s 7-7-7 JyLusic) SIR JULIUS BENEDICT'S CONCERT.-- The performance at St. James's Hall for the benefit of Sir Julius Benedict was really one exclusively on his own account, and had nothing whate ...