... THAT genuine embarrassment may be caused, even in these unromantic times, by the inability of somebody or other to obtain legal evidence of a marriage is shown by the occasional appearance in the news ...

... MR. CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Although Mr. Carl Rosa was, unfortunately, still too much indisposed on Saturday to occupy his accustomed post as conductor, he was furnished with an admirable substit ...

... SEBASTIAN STROME, by Julian Hawthorne (3 vols.: Bentley). --This is a story of very great power, though the power is dis played with much irregularity, and is at times perhaps scarcely visible. We s ...

... . BOHEMIA and the manners supposed to be characteristic of that ill-defined social district have long supplied novelists and dramatists with some amongst their favourite subjects. Apart from the romantic charm conventionally attached to a reckless existence, whose mottoes are fay ce que voudras and let the morrow take care of itself, Bohemianism has for most play goers and novel-readers all ...

... . OF all the half-hearted merry-makings the efforts of theatri cal managers to supply Christmas fare this winter seem to be the worst. Whether they have been in a more than ordinary degree affected by the general depression consequent upon bad trade, or the delightful weather, or the rollicking list of topics which the events of the year present to them for humorous comment, it would be hard ...

... . THE Carl Rosa opera season at Her Majesty's Theatre com menced on Saturday last with a performance of Herr Richard Wagner's early opera, Rienzi. It will be remembered that it was with this work the Carl Rosa season of 1879 began and that the mise en scène was of the most gorgeous and tasteful kind. On Saturday last the spectacular effects which excited so much attention last season were all ...