... PUBIJC AMUSEXENTS. DUTCH PLAYS AT THE IMPERIA. We have seldom felt more interested in any dramatic ?? tha Vwith that wewitnessed on Mouday night At the Imperial, under except.oral and not altogether xdvantageous circumstances. There was a small, but what in fashionable phraseology is termed a select, iudience present, composed of the upper crust of the Diutch residents in England, and a ...

... PUELIC IEEIES. Xe YouDRURY LANE. As You Like It having proven very successful at the Imperial, has bean removed to the much larger house of Drury Iaune. Juldging by the crowded audienees tbat nightly witness this fanciful creation of Shakspere's, and the applause bestowed upon it, we may venture to assume that the removal will prove successful. Miss Litton is, of course, the Rosalind, and ...

... REVIEWS OF BDKS. TiE.m York-street. - The June number of this cleverly-conducted periodical is a remark- able one. We believe, for 'the first time in the memory of living man, the public is presented with likenesses of those mysterious but mighty personages who occupy the exalted' Position of editors on many of the daily and weekly papers. Amongst these worthies, who probably believed their ...

... * I~ ~ ~ ~~S VAUDEVILLE THEATRE. Sorely ileverea sueh precautions taken to ens'are the success- of a ?? play as those, by the Vaudeville meuastwsent with retard to the three-act farcical ec~edy by. B3. G. Inaster, entitled The Guv'nor, andi produced OD ?? evening.' The per- foalnaxiee' was for the benefit of the two popular managers, -and sure, therefore, to seeure a more than usually ...

... WX= }IANDS2.. FESTZVAL. ,xirat ancient, ana accepteQ irauci, tre nitelligen0 foreigner, generally shows a curious want of intelligeO respecting the musical status of England; and when he has been taken to the Handel Festival at the Crystj Palace, the result has been simply to mystify hinr, be. cause the whole th'ng is too vast for his comprehensions In truth, no country save England could ...

... sCRAPS PROw TwEIE cm cOU3nALo. (From Punch.] CO2isc1E1;T.oUs-COnCau~or (declining a tract whi-h was off e:ed him with his fare): Very much obliaed, mum, but we ain't allowed to take any perquisites whateier, mum ! COMPLronsnrany.-Britisher: Well, Sam, what did you think of the wax-work ?-Yankee Friend: Wall, I gness they're uncommon like an or'nary English party ! DOOMSDAYA MAP.-There is ...

... YZFTEPMBAY'S TEATRAS. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Fidello wad rigoduced last nighit in order that Madame fledtiora awaeb-cn might male heu ddbut to an Englshbaudience . linat oth Mbii.&tEtito should Selcm t such a pat asta of Beethoven's only opeatcberoneo, Lconaora, SoageaI' great self-confidence inher yoel usud his- trionic _powers, Whatever intray be sadas to her jndgment. 'lnt thepublie must ...

... THE ATLANTIC XlfONTELY.-Trubnei Lied- ?? are few periodicals that con- tain so much variety of reading as our trans. Atlantic contemporary. In its pages is invari- ably found something to suit the taste of the most exaoting readers. In ?? number is the continuation of a capital serial story called The Stillwater Tragedy; a paper on The Unlearned Professions,; another on precious metal ...

... UNDER Ad SURFAIr OR, A '40o I ANDra FAOI.; , I ~~A A I X. , a , a~, . - I 3siy as well make a clean breest of it. When Mrs. Jack. Sprall caieinup-staiz:to. me thAt:-morning, with. hez dfinger qi that VragrW Awhiach ?? Ryderhadl aeilt ,'kegiWngd1ltter- to 'the Lord 3*or asking us to porter out a few pence to help 'on the relations of the -por fellowa-who wet-tdewn- in- the-Atalanst,, I ...

... PUBI.C ANUSEENTS. ROYAL ITAfIAN OPERA. Wadame Simbrich, from the Royal Opra of Dresden, made her bow to an English audience the other night in Covent Garden, in Donizetti's well-worn opera of Lucia di Lammernoor. Following so close on Madame Albaai's triumph in the same role, the Ubseutasste must have been aware of the comparison that her assumption of such a character would invite, and ...

... UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND- FASHION. WASN'.T there a fearful row when the old lady got back to Windsor and found out how things had been going since-she left! First of all there was thatnasty BRe publican, as the Court flunkeys. said, M. Challemel-. Lacour, reallycoming to London.. Then Mr. Bradlaugh,. another nasty Republican, had nearly got into the House of Commons. And, oh, dear ...

... rEVIEWS or iteOS. OuR HoE x3JC IS RW S. , - rB x VON. Chapman and Hall.-A very pleasant, vreeable, and nicely-written book is that H erein Mrs. Stevenson favours us with her experiences of several months' residence in Was Her- husbnda, oflc in the 42nd iigh ders, filled an 6fficial position ir the Fsland,,to which Sir Garnet Wolseley appointed amwhen: gvernor. rs. Stevenson sacharmed myth- the ...