... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. PEPITA. IF opéra bouffe is coming to an end, as we are so often told, it is at all events dying hard. We have seen the success of The Old Guard at the Comedy Theatre, and here again at Toole's Theatre we find Pepita doing well, with every likelihood that if the house could be secured a long run would follow. It may be safely said, I think, that opéra bouffe like most ...

... . MR. FREEMAN THOMAS may be congratulated on the most successful Promenade Concert season ever known. He may also be specialty praised for his successful endeavours to establish his Wednesday Classical Concerts in the favour of musicians and of cultivated amateurs. The programme pro vided at the classical concert of last week would have done credit to the Philharmonic Society, and it is ...

... . The successful 1 -entree of this wonderful boy. at the Crystal Palace 011 Saturday last, has already been mentioned. Similar success attended his recital at St. James's Hall last Tuesday, when I10 executed tho following programme, to tho delight of a large and -brilliant audience 1 .--Sonata Patbtftitpxc Tloctboven. 2.- n. 44 Giguc Bach. Sonata Pastorale Scarlatti. c. 44 Variations Handel. ...

... . These delightful and instructive concerts will recommence 011 Monday, October 24th, and will be suspended duriug tho usual interval, from December 19th to January 7tli. Twenty- one concerts will bo given, and twenty Saturday concerts, and the musical prodigy, Josef Hofuiann, will delay liis visit to America in order to play at tho concerts on Mondays, October 21th and 31st. Amongst the ...

... . We recently took occasion to contradict the reports that a six weeks' season of Italian opera, at theatre prices, had been arrarged to take place at Covent Garden, under the management of Signor Lago. We are now in a position to state, on the best authority, that Signor Lago has entirely abandoned the idea of an autumnal season in London, and has departed for St. Petersburg, where he will ...

... . MR. JOHN A. STEVENS, the great American author, actor, and manager, who has come to us in A Secret Foe, seems to deserve a heartier welcome than he obtained on his appearance at the Opera Comique the other night. If the Mastodon were to return to our midst he would receive attention as a curiosity, even if he were not hailed as a useful addition to our fauna, or as a pleasant domestic pet. ...

... T.YBIC THEATEE. Love's Trickery, an operetta in one act, written by Cunningham Bridg man and composed by Ivan Caryll, was produced at the Lyric Theatre last Saturday with complete success. The action takes place in the drawing room of Lady Daffodill (Miss Augarde), who awaits a visit from the Count Pauliteckuick, a German nobleman, who, in return for his generous conduct in releasing the late ...

... . Concerning the reappearance of Mile. Jane Hading and M. Darnala in Ic Mailre de Forges there is little to be added to what was said when M. Ohnet's rather commonplace but effective piece was presented at the Royalty last winter. On Saturday night the drama did not attract an audience by any means so large as might have been expected, and we fancy that the time has come when the public has ...

... . MR. J. H. MAPLESON'S short summer season of Italian Opera at Covent Garden opened auspiciously last Saturday night with a representation of La Traviata, the part of Violetta being filled by Mme. Adelina Patti, who appeared to be fully restored to her usual health. Her impersonation of the wretched Violetta has been often described, and on this occasion it will be sufficient to say that her ...

... . DUFF AND STEWART, 2, Hanover-street, W.--Mariette, 4s., by L. Gautier: a suite de valses, tuneful, easy, and about as original as most waltzes recently composed.--A Dream of the Future, 4s; words by H. Jaxone, music by A. Briscoe. The words of this song are better than Mr Jaxone (?Jackson) usually writes, although the last verse is barely intelligible. It is not his fault that the ...

... . Modem Horsemanship. A New Method of Teaching Riding and Training by means of Pictures from Life. By EDWARD L. ANDERSON, author of How to Ride, A System of School Training, The Gallop, &c. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. There is something novel and out of the way about the- appearance of this book, with its light buff covers, on the first of which are a couple of instantaneous ...

... . OF course there will be those who will object to the free and. irreverent handling which Wild Oats has received at the Criterion-- to the bold excisions that have been made, and to the dove-tailing of one act with another. But, after all, O'Keefe's comedy can hardly be considered a classic, and there is no doubt that its present treatment is admirably calculated to make it hit the taste of ...