... eMsUSIC) J OPÉRA COMIQUE.-- That the Pirates of Penzance would prove a brilliant success in London was to be expected after the unanimous verdict of approval delivered upon its immediate precursor, H. ...

... 4/8^ I )s MY LAND OF BEULAH (Tinsley Bros.).-- There are few people who will read these volumes without feeling grateful to Mrs. Leslie Adams for having rescued the stories they contain from the com ...

... w\v\ w s 7-7-7 JyLusic) SIR JULIUS BENEDICT'S CONCERT.-- The performance at St. James's Hall for the benefit of Sir Julius Benedict was really one exclusively on his own account, and had nothing whate ...

... v-:-- AN ARTFUL WIDOW, by Vernon St. Clair (Tinsley Bros.). --Last year a series of articles appeared in The Times, headed Anglo-Indian Society. They created a certain amount of amuse ment at home ...

... . Across the Zodiac the Story of a Wrecked Record, Deciphered, Translated, and Edited by Percy Greo, author of The Devils Advocate, &c. London Trubner and Co., Ludgate- hill. 1880. _ IT is difficult to know how best to describe this book, one of the most remarkable that has been issued for many years past. If it were spoken of as a scientific treatise, an exposition of philosophy, an assault ...

... . THE din of electioneering strife has of late overpowered the peaceful utterances of music, but we may expect an auspicious commencement of the regular musical season on Tuesday next, when the Royal Italian Opera will commence its operations for 1880. Since our former article on this subject a corrected pro spectus has been issued, in which three artists-- not named in the first-issued ...

... . THE production of such a piece as Cobwebs at the Vaudeville Theatre must be taken as a proof either of the difficulty ex perienced by managers in finding anything like a promising new and original comedy or of their inability to determine by reading a play its probable effect in representation. It will, indeed, probably be safe to deduce both of these results from the experience provided by ...

... . Ill Weeds. A novel, by Mjie. Foli, author of The Spanish Cousins London: Remington and Co., 5, Arundel- street, Strand. W.C. 1880. MME. FOLI'S book has a special interest, as coming from the wife of the popular bass singer. The lady cannot quite be judged from a professional standpoint, or we should feel obliged to condemn traces of amateurishness, as, for example, at the very beginning of ...

... . LAST week, being burdened with the idea of spending in London that dreary, impossible, terrible infliction, the Easter holidays, I for one, selected the dreaded Straits of Dover, in preference to the boiling sea of humanity that ebbs and flows through every available space during the happy period termed Bank Holiday. Thus it was that I found myself, in company with a friend-- let us call ...

... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- There is pathos and refinement in a song of medium compass, The Star of the Sea, written and composed by Miss Proctor and A. W. Batson, Mus. Bac., Oxon--. A pretty son ...

... . THE lines have fallen to me in musical places, for the most part, this week; and as I have often avowed my unmusical condition in these pages I need scarcely repeat them even on the verge of committing to paper my opinions of several performances at present attracting the town to certain theatres. The frist place I must speak of, as it is the first upon my list-- and being nothing if not ...

... . Mrs. BATEMAN manifests continued activity in her efforts to firmly re-establish the old popularity of her resuscitated theatre; and her success so far must he pronounced decidedly encourag ing. She has scarcely as yet given any production likely to attract what may he called a metropolitan audience to her house; but she is winning name and fame in the thickly-popu lated district of which the ...