... MR. TOOLE'S reappearance on the stage of the FOLLY Theatre, after an absence of some weeks, constitutes in itself a substantial addition to the entertainments of the metropolis. The severe illness fro ...

... MR. CARL ROSA'S COMPANY.-- That The Taming of the Shrew is a genuine artistic success, and that it is destined to become a stock-piece in the repertory of our Opera in English, may now be taken for ...

... THE GREATEST HEIRESS IN ENGLAND, by Mrs. Oliphant (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett).-- In inventiveness Mrs. Oliphant shows herself here as richly endowed as ever, but her power of working out her ideas ...

... . At the 8th London Ballad Concert of the current season, given last week at St. James's Hall, the latter half of the concert was devoted to Irish ballads. Amongst the principal artists were Mmes. Edith Wynne, Cummings, Damian, andDavies; MM. Lloyd, Santley, Maybriek, Moore, and Sims Reeves, with Mr. John Cheshire as solo harpist, Mr. Sidney Naylor as solo pianist and aeeompagnateur, and the ...

... . DURING the past week three operas have been added to the repertory of the current operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre. Respecting Maritana, produced on Saturday last, it will not he necessary to do more than to briefly notice the quality of the performance, and to record the fact that Vincent Wallace's popular opera drew an audience almost as numerous as that attracted on the previous ...

... WILLIAM CZERNY.-- The demand for concerted music, vocal and instrumental, is steadily on the increase, and very well it is for the pleasure of that long-suffering and enduring class of hearers who nev ...

... . BOOSEY & Co., Regent -street, W.-- Boosey's Sacred Musical Cabinet, No. 25, price Is., contains no less than 100 chorales by J. Sebastian Bach. No words are affixed, but this collection of ecclesiastical melodies, harmonised with the combined skill and simplicity of the great master, will be esteemed by musicians as a treasury of no common value. Forsyth Bros., 272a, Regent- circus, W. ...

... . I DON'T know exactly whether I read of a brawScot or heard the story told by an ear witness, but it was to the effect that he was assisting at a, Bums' Festival, and during the toast-giving a fervid orator happened to say, If Burns were but amongst us, how proud he would be of the reception that you have given this toast. The braw Soot immediately-- no doubt to prevent further ...

... . Here vox Bulow gave a pianoforte recital at St. James's Hall last Wednesday afternoon before a large audience. Illustrations were given of the pianoforte works of six composers of widely differing styles, commencing with Sebastian Bach and terminating with Rubinstein. Tho illustration of Bach was the No. C in D minor of his English suite, a series of dance movements following each other in ...

... . At the Monday Popular Concert, on Monday last, the pro gramme included Haydn's Quartett in E flat, op. 20, No. 1, for two violins (Mme. Neruda and M. Ries), viola (Mr. Zorbini), and violoncello (Signor Piatti). The woric had not previously been heard at the Monday Popular Concerts. It was admirably played, and met with a hearty welcome. Beethoven's posthu mous Sonata in C minor, op. 1 1 1 ...

... CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY.-- The Taming of the Shrew has been given a third time, fully confirming the impression created on the first-- Rienzi, Carmen, Mignon, and the Bohemian Girl being the other wor ...

... A PINK WEDDING, by R. Mounteney Jephson (Bentley and Son).-- This book is evidently written with the intention of letting the world know what Mr. Jephson himself knows of Japan. A sentimental novel, ...