... 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 ...

... FRA NCZS DEA K. * THERE is a certain propriety in the fact that the first formal biography that is something more than brochure, panegyric, or newspaper article of the Hurgarian statesman Francis Deak appears in England from an English pen. Various historical causes which have often been referred to have produced striking and real analogies between English and Hungarian constitutionalism ...

... Fully aware that the rules and regulations laid down by both ?? and professionals for the proper guidance of their Itrosis are occasionally set at defiance, it was with no small lniiriit of trepidation we last Saturday attended the final per- finnarce of the season by the Strolling Plryers, at St. 1,.urge's Hall, for our card of admission bore in juxtaposition tie ?? Evening dress not ...

... PUBLIC A.MUSEMENTS. IMPERIAL ¶TIHEATRE. The enthusiastic Dutchman, who, in admiration of his native language, once wrote a book to endea- vour to prove that high Dutch was the language spoken by our first parents in the Garden of Eden, would have rejoiced at witnessing Monday's performance at the Imperial. A complete dramatic company had been transferred from Rotterdam, and appeared in a ...

... Miss Eleanor Bufton (Mrs Arthur Swanborough) has been the victim of one of those outrages which occasionally occur in Liverpool and other large towns, and illustrate the perils of the streets. Miss Bufton is a prominent member of Mr Chas Wyndham's company, now playing at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, in the town named, and fills the role of Mrs Birkett, in Betsy. On Friday night, 4th inst., ...

... Chamber Concert at Steinway HalL The Second Chamber Concert given by MM Musin and Saint-Sadns took place on Thursday afternoon, when the first item performed was a Trio in F for Pianoforte, Violin, and Violoncello, a composition of an effective and brilliant cha- racter. The trio is in four movements, and contains some original and novel passages, but it was the andante that appeared to afford ...

... (FROsI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) JUNE 3.-In order to give the Belgian drama its due place in the fetes that are being organised in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of national independence, the Minister of the Interior has appointed a Committee for choosing such Belgian plays, in the French language-to the exclusion of opera-as shall be most suitable for representation. The six ...

... rRunuR -TsrN fl-ur LFEW 05URS OWN CORRESPONDENT) - - NEW YORK, MAY 29.-The fierce beat of an American summer is upon us at an unprecedentedly early date., Such sweltering weather in May has not been experienced here in a decade. The effect on the Theatres may be seen in the rapid closing up of the meason. The Urnion-square, the Standard, Booth's, and the BiJou Opera House have already closed ...

... BEETMOVEN'S RECITALS BY HERR BONAWITZ. | Herr J. H. Bonawitz gave on Wednesday evening, at the Langlham Hall, the first of a series of three recitals of Beet- hoven's Sonatas. Herr Bonawitz makes a selection of five sonatas for each concert, and, although in consequence of his being little kuown to the English musical public the audience was not large, we shall be surprised if, after Herr ...

... Yesterday afternoon representatives of the British iron trade waited upon Earl Granville at the Foreign to uige upon him the desirability of securing for that trade in negotiating tho treaty with Prance the most favourable tornr. Earl Granville wa ...

... .9 TIlE AcTroR's WIFE, by Edmund Leathes (S. Tinsley).- Actor as he acknowledges himself to be, it is quite evident that Mr. Leathes is not content to play a single part on life's fitful stage. Off ...

... F. B. CHATTERTON'S DRURY-LANE COMPANY. The little comedietta Of Delicate Ground forms a pleasing lever de rideau to introduce Watts Phillips's melodrama. The two chief parts are well played by Mr Lablache and Miss Emmerson. The melodrama or domestic drama which followed developer an inte- resting story in a telling manner. It would be difficult to say why Tibbetts is reduced to reveal ...