... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- One of the most attrac tive novelties of the musical season is A Patriotic Hymn from the Bohemian poem, The Heirs of the White Mountain, written by Vitêslav Halek, ...

... THE latest novel by that prolific writer of fiction for readers of all ages, Mr. George Manville Fenn, aims at, and reaches, a higher level than is usual with its author. The Master of the Cere monie ...

... IF Mrs. Riddell requires change of air from the City of London, her readers ought not to grudge it to her. She is, however, so identified with the City that Berna Boyle, a Love Story of the County Down (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), appeals to an entirely new range of interests and sympathies. For our own part, we do not think her change of air and scene well advised. London she has made her ...

... Theatres CYNICAL observers of the tendencies of the modern drama can hardly have failed to draw inferences of an unflattering kind from the circumstance that the numerous published criticisms upon the ...

... NONE who read Mehalah are likely to forget that strangely powerful tragedy, resembling a transfer of the scene of Wuthering Heights from the Yorkshire Moors to the Essex Salt Marshes. John Herrin ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Youthful singers, as well as actors, are now so plentiful, that they run their elders very close. Little Red Riding Hood, an Operetta for Juveniles, libretto by George Cooper, ...

... 1 Hi THE RETORT OF THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE (Sampson Low and Co.) is always brimful of interest. Mr. Wilfrid Powell on New Guinea and the Western Pacific and Mr. Murray Smith on The Australas ...

... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- Of a very ordinary type is Had You Only Known, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Allred Moul.-- Love Ties, words by H. B. Farnie, music by F. P. Tosti, is w ...

... OFFENBACH'S LES BRIGANDS.-- The production at the Avenue Theatre on Monday night of a hitherto unperformed ver sion of Offenbach's opera touffe, Les Brigands, might have passed almost unnoticed had ...

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... CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.-- The twenty-sixth series of Saturday Concerts begins this afternoon, under the superintendence of Mr. August Manns, who from the commencement has done so much to promote th ...

... pP|j ^the fS!? THE ROYALTY Theatre in Soho has come under the management of Mr. Alexander Henderson, a gentleman of large experience in theatrical matters, acquired both in England and America; and th ...