... . WE recently gave a full account of the plot of the grand opera Sigurd, written by MM. Du Locle and Blau, and composed by M Ernest Reyer, since the death of Berlioz musical critic of Le Journal des Débate, Paris. We have now to chronicle the successful production, on Tuesday last, of the Italian adaptation written by Signor Mazzucato, one of the most distinguished of modern Italian literati. ...

... . Lucifer, an oratorio written in Flemish by M. Emanuel Hiel, composed by M. Pierre Léonard Leopold Benoit, and fitted with an English translation by Mrs. Butterfield, was on Wed nesday last produced at the Albert Hall by the Royal Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. Barnby. The composer holds high rank among his musical fellow countrymen, and has for many years persevered in endeavours ...

... GLOBE THEATBE. True Colours is the name of a new first piece by Mr. J. P. Hurst, produced with fair success at the Globe on Monday evening. The little play is legitimately described as a comedy in one act, for it unfolds a neat miniature plot and keeps clear of the farcical alike in dialogue and action. Its weakness lies in its tendency to over-elaboration of story, and the rather rough and ...

... M„ p _ STB AND THEATBE. CHARLES THOMAS'S comedy The Paper Chase, presented by Mr. Lionel Brough at a Strand matinee the other day, de serves warmer Praise than is given to it when it is pronounced superior to the ordinary run of morning productions. It is, in fact, a merry and ingenious play, not, perhaps, particularly original in its plot and developments, but sufficiently fresh in its well ...

... PBINCE OF WALES'S THEATBE. MR. CAMPBELL RAE-BROWN did not manage to make much of the inspiration furnished to him by Lord Tennyson's Lady Clara Vere de Vere, a poem which in truth does not suggest a great deal of sustained dramatic interest. His notion seemed to be to provide the haughty damsel with an excuse for herrejection of herhumbly-born lover in the foolish andlacka daisical ...

... The Henry Irving Shakespeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall, with numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne. London Blaclrie and Son, 49 and 50, Old Bailey. 1S88. THE third volume of this work, which redounds so highly to the credit of all connected with it, includes Richard III., King John, The Merchant of Venice, and Parts 1 and 2 of Henry IV. No greater praise can be bestowed ...

... FRINGE OF WALES'S. A PATIENT study of Mr. Horace Sedger's new play, on its production at the Prince of Wales's one afternoon last Week, failed to suggest the meaning of its title-- Hidden Worth. It is true that whatever worth the piece may have had was kept very carefully concealed until the final fall of the curtain, but this can hardly have been the reference intended by the author. The ...

... . THE appearance of Mme. Sembrich as Queen Margherita, in the recent performance of Les Huguenots, added greatly to the attractiveness of that opera, and drew a large audience. How brilliantly she sang the florid passages of which the part of Margherita chiefly consists, it is hardly necessary to say, nor would it be generous to compare so gifted a vocalist with the two debutantes who had ...

... . Indi in Game from Quail to Tiger Shooting. By Wm. Riots, Major-General, Retired LiBt, Indian Army. London: W. H. Allen and Co. IT is nearly thirty years since the author established his reputa tion as a sportsman who could write well of sport. His book, Tiger Shooting in India, may still he read with interest and advantage. The present volume, with its wide range of subjects, its ...

... . WHY anybody should trouble to place on the stage such aimless rubbish as Not a Word, we cannot profess to understand. One good object Mr. Lee Balmaine may indeed serve by his production: he provides a shocking example to warn writers and adapters of French farcical comedy against the result of excessive indulgence in panto mimic episodes. But as this self sacrifice in the cause of art ...

... Gh ild Pictures from Dickens. Same publishers. We have here a number of scenes from Dickens in which child ren are concerned. They are on the whole well selected, and the capital illustrations with which they are interspersed are in harmony with the text. ...

... Who Was Philip f By the Rev. H. C. Adam3. Same pub lishers. The author describes in vivid colours the persecution inflicted at a public school upon a boy about whose birth there is a mystery. It is to be hoped that the picture is over-done, but at all events the hero holds his own in manly fashion, and there are two or three other boy-characters who give a healthy tone to the story. There are ...