... how Messrs. James and Thorne could have read, accepted, rehearsed, and brought out so weak and tiresome a production. To speak in detail of the acting of a piece of this kind is obviously unnecessary. The Vaudeville company, of which the leading performers ...

... others. From these even Bach, the representative of the Protestant German North, was willing to learn; but in the time WvC are speaking of the Italians were no longer the music-masters of the world, only the singing-masters, which is a very different thing ...

... Frederick of Telramond, and his wife Ortrtd, must indeed be full of evil. The recitative passages in Lohengrin are, musically speaking, valueless, and therefore their reduction would spare the auditors many tedious moments. If this had been all that Herr Richter ...

... Italian Opera there can, we think, be little doubt. With regard to. the Raoul of M. Devilliers it is impossible just now to speak in such terms of hope. The audience were encouragingly kind to both new comers. That Mr. Gye is right, and that, in fact, it ...

... converts. Of late years some of them have emigrated to America, and spread their views broadcast, not so much among the English speaking as among the German and French settlers, and, in a diluted form, amongst Irish labourers. On the Americans proper they have ...

... with a host of ludicrous incidents, interwoven with the loves of the numerous other eharasteas. There are upwards of fifty speaking and singing parts, the effect of the piece being not unlike that of an Irish jollification where the fun grows fast and furious ...

... companion igiant of lesser alti- tude. -Mr. Brustad, a~oreeegisn; standing seven feet six inohes. These descondants of A nak speak several languages, and will doubtless prove attractive at the Aquarium. CHIT CHAT. Mr. J. B. Planch6, Somerset Herald, and ...

... invention in Jacks uard Jills. We will not say it is all commonplace, for there is one extraordinary personage in it who cannot speak even of so mundane a thing its a rasher of bacon without comparing it to a strip cut olt of an eastern sunset. Another nec ...

... believe, owe the main portion of their existence to the Royal General Theatrical Fund. Well, now, surely there must be- I am speaking, of course, as one quite outside of all knowledge -there must be something peculiar in the fact that so few members of the ...

... represent the last of the Tributnes; and Mliss Ellen Terry is assigned the prominent female character. The play, of which report speaks very higbly, is entirely original, and differs in its treatment of the subject from Bulwer's novel and Miss Mitford's tragedy ...

... art. The scene is laid in the drawing-room of the Princesse de Bouillon; Adrienne and the Princess, who are groping, so to speak, for each other's identity, Recognize each other for rivals in an exchange of innuendos of the bitterest -type, and proceed ...

... Behrens was in every respect good. Much more delicate shading would have been desirable, however, in the accompaniments, While speaking of Fidelio we may take the opportunity of entering a protest against the foolish and mistaken practice, now hardly ever ...