... . A peefobmaxce of Adricunc Lccourrcur given at the Gaiety on Wednesday afternoon last had few noteworthy features. It was necessarily of the scratch order, and the stage management was only perfunctory. Miss Eweretta Lawrence, earnest and painstaking and intelligent as she is, scarcely realised the idea of the actress who has attained MUe. Lecouvreur's position. Her elocution is better than ...

... . Journalistic London: being a Series of Sketches of Famous Pens and Papers of the Day. By JOSEPH HATTON. Profusely illustrated with engravings from drawings by M. W. Ridley. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown-buildings, 188, Fleet-street. 1882. In undertaking this series of articles for Harper's Magazine, from which they are republished, Mr. Hatton had before him a ...

... . A THREE-ACT opera, entitled All in the Downs; or, Black-eyed Susan, was produced, on Saturday last, at the Gaiety Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. Meyer Lutz, who has composed the music to a libretto partly consisting of scenes from Douglas Jerrold's celebrated play, and partly of lyrics written by the dramatist's son, Mr. T. Jerrold. It will be needless to describe the familiar plot, and it ...

... . THOSE certainly are happiest who expect least when Shake speare is put on as a stop-gap at one of our London theatres, especially when the company happens to be a scratch one, and the opportunities for rehearsal together have been neces sarily limited. Not much could fairly have been hoped for from Mrs. Scott-Siddons's hurried production of As You Like It. The fates had been against the ...

... . Ox Wednesday last an attractivo addition was made to the repertory of Miss Lila Clay's company of ladies at the Opera Comiqne Theatre, in a new operetta, entitled An Adamless Rden, written hy Mr. Snvile Clarke, and composed by Mr. Walter Slaughter. In the elaboration of the plot, Mr. Clarke supplies so many comic incidents, and a dialogue so genuinely witty, humorous, and good-naturedly ...

... . It is a long time since wo have seen a performance so heartily enjoyed as that of The Rivals at the Vaudeville. The famous comedy goes from first to last, as indeed it should with the best all-round cast which has been allotted to it for many a day. We have no Mrs. Malaprop like Mrs. Stirling, none whose blunders seem so naturally made, whose self-satisfaction is so exquisitely comic, whoso ...

... . Old Coaching Days. By Stanley IIaebis (An Old Stager). Illustrated by John Stuegess. London Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington-street. 1882. THE number of those who speak from experience of the palmy days of coaching, and who are able and willing to write of the good old times, is rapidly diminishing, and that circumstance gives special value to such books as this. Mr. Stanley Harris is ...

... . MISS HELEN BARRY, who has made steady progress since she played Arkwright's Wife a few years back, has now commenced an engagement of a couple of months at the Imperial Theatre. She appears both morning and afternoon. The piece given in the morning is Mr. Boucicault's adaptation from the French, Led Astray, in which Miss Barry again plays tho Countess Armande Chandoce, the character which ...

... . Tiie farcical comedy Twins ib now preceded at the Olympic Theatre by Written in Sand, a comedietta from the pen of Mr. P. W. Broughton. If wo remember rightly, this little lever du riileau owes its plot to a three-act piece by the same author, called Light and Shade, which was produced some time ago at the Imperial. It is none the worse for this, since the main inoident of the story from ...

... . THE Promenade Concerts continue to attract large audiences nightly to Covent Garden Theatre, and on Saturday last 5,012 shilling visitors were admitted, in addition to the numbers by whom the balcony, dress circle, and boxes were thronged. At the preceding classical concert the attendance was almost equally large, and the most respectful attention was paid to the splendid Midsummer Night's ...

... . Miss Waixis, whose season at the Olympic Theatre comes to an end this week, presented herself last Saturday as Juliet, a character which every young actress of ambition is bound to attempt at one time or another without much regard to the probability of her sucoess. Miss Wallis is not specially well suited to the part, since her manner is altogether too staid for the natural exposition of ...

... . MM. Sabdott and Najac's comedy Divor^ons, in which Mme. Chaumont scored one of her most popular successes, was essen tially a piece d' occasion, and has lost most of its raison d'etre now that a Divorce Bill is no longer under discussion in France. It will he recollected that its hero, the cynically philosophic M. Des Prunelles, whose wife seems to he in love with her cousin Adhemar, ...