... is also engaged here. On the night now particularly referred to he started by appearing as a sort of grey-bearded Faust, speaking rhyming reflections and singing an English version of Non 6 ver. He subsequently came to the front as an itinerant musician ...

... that performance to the criticism of an audience in every way representative of art, is a widely different matter, and it speaks volumns for the refinement and education of our Stage when we find our countrymen and countrywomen triumphantly accomplish ...

... THE LONDON THEATRES. Generally speaking the businese t Athe London Theatres lias been good, but no novelties have been introduced into the programmes of the West-end establishments. With this week the ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA has the additional attractio0 ...

... swellish tendencies, the coat and gaiters being noticeable. It is, perhaps, wrong to use the word swell or anything like it in speaking of Chirgwin, for be is still as fat as the oft-quoted match denuded of its brim- stone. How does lie contrive to keep so ...

... was much to admire in her vocal efforts, and her acting, if unpretentious, was not wanting in grace. Alto- gether, we may speak of Miss Petrelli as extremely promising. Miss May Bulmer represented the same character as before, that of the second sister ...

... Pass, who has merely taken Tennyson's poem The Lord of Bur- leigb, and turned it into a dramatic form; but we can hardly speak of the result as a success. The original incident of the Poet Laureate is simply told in the verses He was but a landscape ...

... had left hope behind, and lovers of this school of art will be sure to commend the work. It is but just to Mr Stanhope to speak in praise of the poetical feeling he has infused into his subject. Much as we might desire to get rid of some of the quaintness ...

... and Joln Glyndoniresorts to force. Ile the confusion and the darkness Naomi, believing it is her bver quitting the house, speaks hopefully to him, telling him that she will never be the wife of any other man, but the father just manages to crawl to the ...

... houses. Of per- formers whose unique ability and established reputation are so far beyond question, it is unnecessary for us to speak in detail; we must congratulate the Vokes's upon the lady whom they have chosen to assist them in their well-known pieces, ...

... love. Could this gentle. lissome, winsome, childish woman rise to the tragic height suggested by the very first lines she speaks in the part of itoxana she is studying? The third act soon answered the question. When giving escape to the unknown lady, ...

... with a host of ludicrous incidents, interwoven with the loves of the numerous other eharasteas. There are upwards of fifty speaking and singing parts, the effect of the piece being not unlike that of an Irish jollification where the fun grows fast and furious ...

... invention in Jacks uard Jills. We will not say it is all commonplace, for there is one extraordinary personage in it who cannot speak even of so mundane a thing its a rasher of bacon without comparing it to a strip cut olt of an eastern sunset. Another nec ...