... . Random Drawings of Darlington Doings for 1879. By John Dinsdale, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Drawn with spirit, vigour, and accuracy, and with a keen eye for character, we congratulate Mr. Dinsdale upon the production of this clever series of local sketches. The opera notes are less carefully drawn and altogether weaker than the companion plates, most of which display artistic merit of ...

... 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 ...

... HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR. THE concert given at St. James's Hall last week by this cele brated choir attracted a very large audience, special interest attaching to the concert, as it was the first of the 25th season of the society, and its 25th season will be its last. It would be a waste of time to expatiate on the merits of the Henry Leslie Choir. For many years past it has reflected lustre on ...

... Two Women (3 vols.) Georgiana M. Crailc Lord Bcaconsfield a Study Georg Brandes, Authorised Translation by Mrs. George Sturge. R. Bentley and Sons. The Law of Joint Stock Companies (15th Thousand): J. ...

... . A graceful trifle by Mr. Frank Desprez and Mr. Alfred Cellier, entitled In the Sulks, has been produced at the Opera Comique, as a lever de rideau before the Children' s Pinafore. It need scarcely be said that as the hero and the heroine are hus band and wife, it is the former whose state of mind and temper gives a name to the piece for, of course, ladies never sulk. They only preserve a ...

... OUR, CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MR. F. B. CHATTERTON'S name is very little before the public nowadays, and that fickle taskmaster very likely never thinks one way or the other as to what he may be doing or going to do. Nevertheless, but a short time back Mr. Chatterton was one of the most ambitious managers and holder of the largest number of theatres of any in London. He was notably the man who could ...

... THE reopening of the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre has followed closely upon the removal of Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft to the gorgeously redecorated Haymarket. Mr. Edgar Bruce is the new lessee, a gentle man w ...

... . A MORE thoroughly enjoyable performance than that of As You Like It, produced last Wednesday at the Imperial Theatre, is not now to be seen upon the London stage. The delightful play, ever fresh and ever developing some new charm whenever we renew its acquaintance, is given in a manner which fully satisfies all intellectual and artistic requirements, and receives more complete justice at the ...

... . Fight Months in an Ox Waggon. Reminiscences of Boer Life.. By E. F. Sandeman. With a map. Griffith and Farran, St. Paul's Churchyard. London 1880. CHIEFLY, as it appears, for the sake of his health, Mr. E. F. Sandeman went for a sporting tour in South Africa, and from the letters in which he detailed the incidents of the journey to his father this volume has been constructed. It is a plain, ...

... . 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 ...

... y,xv j resssssssszzzzzzzz? XlJ S I Q) t K AV N/J/J.d CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Since our last there has been nothing new. The favourite operas of the season have been counted upon as sufficient att ...

... . The Green Bushes has probably taken a firmer hold of the public fancy than has any other of the late Mr. Buckstone's dramas, nor is the reason for its popularity far to seek. It is an excellent specimen of the simple-minded romantic melodrama, which, in spite of all incongruities and absurdities, gives to the representatives of its chief dramatis persona an opportunity of displaying ...