... THE CORSICAN BROTHERS AT THE LYCEUM. Once more melodrama reigns supreme at the Lyceum, and Dumas, adapted by Boucicault, succeeds Shakespeare. The Corsican Brothers has so long been a stock piece that most people have forgotten its origin and history. The story of Les Fr&res Corses was written by the late Alexandre Dumas, turned into a play by two French authors, and produced at the ...

... Recent occurrences in the musical world have not been of much moment, though the fire of concerts has been steadily maintained. At the Crystal Palace the continuance of the series of Schubert's symphonies has attracted many music- lovers to Sydenham, and this week the resumption of the Philharmonic Society's concerts at St. James's Hall will no doubt add a new stimulus to artistic affairs. ...

... THE EXAMINER- OF PLAYS. et PARLOURS AT THE ROyALTY. The epithet farcical was no doubt applied to comedies as a sort of apology on the part of their authors for scenes and dialogue which they felt to be beneath the dignity of comedy. It is true that the dictionary Informs us that a comedy is a dramatic tepresettation of the lighter passions and actions of mankind, but there was until in ...

... FRANCIS DEACK. Franeis Dehk, Rzengariao Statesman. A Memoir. With a Preface by Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, M.P. Macmillan and Co. A welcome, bright, enthralling, and opportune book is this-with only one blemish. Who and what is Mr. Grant Duff that he should step in between English readers and the study of such a character as Deak? He appears to have asked himself why the volume needed a preface ...

... The close of the autumn season of Italian opera at cheap prices gave the signal for the cessation of the serial concerts for the present year; but music dies hard; and though the- Monday Popular, Ballad, Crystal Palace, Sacred Harmonic and Saturday Orchestral Concerts will put up the shutters at the end of the present week, Mr. Sims Reeves proposes to give a ballad concert on Thursday next, ...

... MARIA Di GAND AT HER EMAJESTY'S. New operas do not crop up plentifully in England, and imfiresarii, as a rule, are very chary of producing new works. Generally speaking, an opera has to run the gauntlet of Continental and even American criticism before it finds its way to the Anglo-Italian stage; and even then it must come with a safe recommendation. It was an act of singular and unusual ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, HERBERT SPENCER. LIFE. -ORN at Derby, i820. Do) Educated privately. Was for solve time a civil engineer, and contribute d to the Civil Engineer and Architects' Journal. W R I TIN G S. 1842. The Proper Sphere of Government [in the Nonconformist]. 1848-i852, Various Writings in the Economisi. 185I. Social Statics; or, The Conditions to Human Happiness specified, and the ...

... MOST REVEREND RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D., ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. LIFE. ORN Sept. 9, 1807. B Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. B.A., 1829; M.A., 1833; B.D., i850. 1837. Incumbent of Curdridge Chapel, Bishops Waltham (Hants). 184r. Curate of Alverstoke. I845. Rector of Itchenstoke. Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Oxford. 1845-1846. Hulsean Lecturer and Select Preacher in Cambridge ...

... m U SIC. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. SOMETHING akin to a feeling that it was Hamlet S without Hamlet was what chiefly impressed one on Saturday night, when the English season at Her Majesty's commenced without the presence of Mr. Carl Rosa in the conductor's seat. This drawback excepted, there was nothing to detract from a remark- ably excellent and complete performance of Wagner's Rienzi. ...

... L'AVENTURIERE, AT THE PRINCE OF WALES'S. The announcement that certain English actors and actresses would play in a French piece in the language in which it was written might take some people by surprise, but the idea was not a new one. To give only two examples: Charles Mathews played in French in Paris with conspicuous success, and a year or two ago certain English actors, among whom was ...

... Her Majesty's closed on Saturday last with a representa- tion of Mefistofele, the success of the season. Boitos opera, to speak metaphorically, brought the Maplesonian ship up with a wet sail. It led hinm into a safe haven, and, beyond all question, is yet to prove a source of profit, as it always must be a gain to the operatic stage. The achievement, represented in the production of this ...

... - NINON AT THE ADELPHI. M /r R. WILLS has in Ninon written a play which M\{l should exactly suit the audiences at the Adelphi, and is, moreover, a capital specimen of a melodrama. The story of Ninon is a simple one, and that in itself is no small merit in such a piece. A certain Ernest de St. Cyr, an aristocrat at heart, although posing as a Republican, is supposed to have seduced and ...