... A lasge and enthasiastic audience assembled llat night at the Royalty Theatre to witness the reproductio~of Hamlet with Mr Irving as the Royal Dane. A good many years have elapaed now since Mr -irviag by his assumption of this character gave proof that a master Epirit in the drmatic art had agan arisenL among us; and thougk he has in the interval added: others to his repertoire with which ...

... j ua qua'S Arau-DEIEMBH., 1882. 1fA Muan, ye should hae comne In summer, Whenm. the grass was lang and green: When the sheep, that ?? ng it revelled - Lying doan wvere barely seen; When ehe hill was but a gar denc T i F a' a'owers hn plots In' trim; in When the ?? in the ggioaming, Fre e thh e suburbs can''to ssim; re When the red hew blaoo o wae plenty, And the red beech shone in' brew- re ...

... 1MUSIO AND THE DRAIMA (noX orn owy 0cRaZsrosnfl7) ; London, Sunday Night. The celebrated American prina donna, Mis| Griswold, made her first appearance in this coumtry at the Crystal Palace yestday. This lady came to Paris about 1bur years ago tO drtI and :having won a nomination at. ,Te Conserva- . toire, she spedlyrose and was, it is. believed,the V iratAmercan- wboever carried o£ the fist ...

... iMUSIC AND THE DRA1A. r' (TheM O0 OW CO3RESB=ObmEl. j) London, Sunday blight. MaF. Pnrtao's new comedy, produced by Mr and Mrs Bancroft last night at the Haymarket Theatre, was originally to be called Bar;- Sinister, or, to use the more correct heraldic expresiion to signify illegitimacy, Benad, Sinister. Instead, bowever, it is now entitled; L ords and Commons. 'Mr Pinero cheerfully ...

... EDINBURGH:SCHOOL OF ART. Th3 Manual distribution of prizes to the students! attending the School of Art conducted in EMdu- burgh by the Board of Manufactures took place . vuferdagafternoon in one of the octagons of the yal ottish Academy. The chair was occu. pied by Sir William Fettes Douglas, P.RS.A., wbq was supported on the platform by Lord Shand. Lord %iunear, the Hon. Bouverie Prim- k roy ...

... LITEmATM. (I) Mefdhza Davaim's Pr son Experiences. This book really consists of two distinct ?? one dealing with Mr Davitt's prison experiences, and the other with his political views. There is no necessary connection be- tween the two, and yet the ordinary precaution of dividing them exactly between the two vol. umes is not followed, for Part II. occupies some forty qr fifty pages of Vol. I. ...

... GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF THE FINE. ARTIS. The annual general meeting of the members of the Glasgow Institute of the Fiine-Asts was held in tho.galleries on Saturday ?? 1). . OutraEn in the chair. The council in their report state that. notwithstanding many adverse circumstancea the operations of the year ao a whole have resulted favourably to the institute. At the close of the Onancial year. on ...

... LITERA TUPE. (1) Bret Iharte's Poetical Word. 'Th There is probably no living American so well Ode known as Mr bret Harte. it is not because he is a ?? because he is a humorist-not of Decause hle is a *;ovelist-not even because he is Wo its American con iul-but because he ?? I Elartc. His iiaile is like one of Mr Lexeis of Carroll's portnrilteai words, it conveys the L niuitipiicitv oi ...

... LEEDS MUSICAL FESTIVAL I (FROM OUR SPECIAL COoRESPON ENTr) I Leeds, Monday Evening. This morning the series of rehearsals for the Leeds Musical Festival was entered upon shortly after ten. The festival proper does not begin till Wednesday, to-day and to-morrow being wholly devoted to careful rehearsals so as to insure an absolute musical success. First of all, the Queen's Anthem was quickly ...

... LITBP.ATUCR& ' (1) SICILYe I' When the late George Eliot, who had become famous as a writer of stories of English home life, at length selected an Italian theme under the name of Romola, it'was thought by some that she bad left a safe region for one with which she badnot sufficient acquaintance, and in which it was feared that, if she did not altogether fail, she would probably not score a ...

... MUSIC &ND THE DRAMA. (n~om oun oW- CORRYSPOflENT.) London, Sunday.Nigh. ni T~znew melodrama entitled Youth, wt which the Drury Lane season oened last night, cil has apparently been written with the -sole 511 abject of working in a Series of co-stly and Sern- la] sational set scenes. Otherwise the story is not 'fon a particularly interestin..or wllolezoneelone. The 'i hero, young Evened Dar ...

... ROYAL NORMAL COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOR TaE BLIND EV5NING cONxCET. 'Me good work being done at Upper Norwood ] by the Royal Normal Coilege aid Academy of I Music for the Blind should appeal snc esalfly ' to the public sympathies. It is to be regretted . that with the exception of the higher-priced: seats St Andrew's Hall was hardly so well filled last night as it might have been, for, ...