... . Why the management at Toole's Theatre thought it worth while to imperil the success of such a witty little piece as Faust and Loose by thrusting it before the public in an unprepared state we cannot profess to understand. Better a postponement even at the last moment than a performance which gave so bad a first impression as did the premiere of Mr. Burnand's smartly written and cleverly ...

... . The Galley Slaxe, by Mr. Bartley Campbell, which has been played during the week at the Grand Theatre, Islington, is an odd medley of melodrama and comedy, or what is intended for comedy. For educated audiences it is but poorly fitted, nor is it a fair specimen of the robust drama which delights transpon tine and eastern playgoers. Yet it has a certain go and dash, which secure for some of ...

... THE musical season, which opened in January last with a series of Promenade Concerts at Her Majesty's Theatre, closed last Saturday, with the final performance of the short season of Italian Opera at Covent Garden, and the time has come when it may be found interesting and profitable to review the musical history of the seven months which terminate to-day. ...

... MUSIC. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. DURING the past seven days two additions have been made to the repertory of the current operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre. Respecting Balfe's perennial work, The Bohemian Girl, nothing needs saying, but praise is due to the general ex cellence of the ensemble presented by the Carl Rosa Company. Owing to the absence of Mr. Packard, through indisposition, ...

... . THE seventeenth Metropolitan Horse Show was opened at Islington on Saturday, when, if the total of entries was slightly less than on some previous occasions, the quality of the exhibits, as a whole, was certainly above the average. The hunters' classes were particularly strong and numerous, no less than 100 animals had been entered for competition in this section alone; the park hacks, ...

... . I SUPPOSE everybody was at the Derby last week. I went down at the invitation of Thespis, who had his cart there, and a very nice cart it was. Mrs. Thespis and one of the little Thespises, and a few Thespian friends made the thing exceedingly pleasant. I had intended making a sketch of Thespis and his cartload, but I really lost so much to the glory of St. Sweepstake that I lost heart. I ...

... . ALTHOUGH Forget Me Not is in some ways not so well suited for a small stage as for a largo one, it is a play which when adequately represented commands a hearty welcome anywhere from those capable of appreciating strong and ambitious dramatic work. In default, therefore, of a good new comedy-- and good new comedies are very scarce-- upon the scale best fitted for a bandbox theatre, Mr. Edgar ...

... SIR CHARLES YOUNG'S capital drama Jim the Penman evidently interested Islirgton playgoers very much on its presentation at the Grand the other day. As we pointed out on its original production at the Haymarket, it is a very clever piece of dramatic workmanship, and narrowly misses being one of the great plays of the day. Its great defect lies of course in the failure to illustrate in action ...

... . WITH a truly Hibernian ring that must surely emanate from the seething brain of Mr. Augustus Harris's literary adviser, Mr. Augustus M. Moore, we are informed that London is empty, Drury Lane is full. There is a pleasant suggestion of contradiction in this simple announcement, and if it is fraught with any degree of veracity it must be at least pleasing to the various persons who have ...

... GAIETY THEATRE. THOUGH the withdrawal of that capital Christmas piece, The Gaiety Gulliver, is on some grounds to be regretted, there are not lacking elements of popularity in the entertainment given by Mr. Hollingshead in its place. The burlesque, Robbing Roy, for instance, which deals, in Mr. Burnand's happiest spirit, with a subject excellently fitted for good-humoured caricature, is the ...

... . ON Monday evening last the bright and tuneful operetta, A United Pair, was followed, at St. George's Hall, by a new musical sketch, in which Mr. Corney Grain illustrates some recent experiences' of Aix les Bains. Beginning with the in evitable commencement of a continental holiday, he goes through Paris, I visits a café chantant, and hears the cafe chorus, which varies, but never really ...

... . THE sliglitness of the interest taken by the English public in French plays and performances is well indicated by the poor attendance which has been vouchsafed during the week to the representations of Divorçons and La Cigale at the Gaiety. These are, both of them, extremely witty comedies of the farcical kind, and they have been admirably performed-- especially the latter piece, which has ...