... 1 ill llll A SEA-VOYAGE is dull work for most people, even in a Cunard liner, which does in nine days what used to take the old ten-gun brigs, or coffins, the liners of ninety years ago, from fifty ...

... . The World is, on the whole, a very good specimen of the class of drama to which it belongs, and Messrs. Merritt, Pettitt, and Harris, who are responsible for this sensational and realistic piece, are to be congratulated upon what they have done and also upon what they have omitted to do. The World is credit ably distinguished from most dramas of a similar land by a total absence of clap ...

... . BY cook and pye, those mad wags, the Masters Paul Meritt, Henry Pettitt, and Augustus Harris, have favoured the town with a rare and stirring Midsummer merriment! A veritable tropical pantomime, crammed to repletion with all sorts of marvellous tricks and trap-door surprises. Where are your Payne and Evans, your Hanlon Lees, and your other dare-devil trick masters, in the presence of Mr. ...

... . The negro minstrel company known as Haverly's United American Mastodon Minstrels have achieved a great success at Her Majesty' 8 Theatre, which is nightly filled by audiences who applaud the new-comers to the echo. To give details of the performances would occupy much space, and it must suffice to say that the Haverly Minstrels, numbering over forty vocalists and instrumentalists, are a well ...

... . THE only musical entertainments at present to be heard in London, in addition to the comic operas of Offenbach (La Fille du Tambour-Major) and of Planquette (Les Cloches de Corneville), are the Promenade Concerts of Messrs. A. and S. Gatti at Covent Garden. Respecting the quality of the band and the merits of the conductor, Mr. Frederic Cowen, and his trusty aide de camp, Mr. Alfred Burnett, ...

... MUSIC. CO VENT GARDEN CONCERTS. THESE excellent entertainments enjoy continuous success, and a glance at some of the recent concerts will serve to show that Mr. Frederic Cowen knows how to cater for the musical public, so as to provide enjoyment alike for ordinary amateurs and cultivated musicians. At the concert given on Thursday in last week part singing was introduced for the first time ...

... . Four Centuries of English Letters. Selections from the Corre spondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present Day Edited and arranged by Mr. Baptists Scoones. London C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1, Paternoster-square, 18S0. ANYONE might have made such a book as this in an indifferent fashion; few men could have made it well. Those, however, who are ...

... DRAMA. OLYMPIC THEATRE. To the Olympic Theatre, which is still conducted in a pro miscuous sort of way, and lends its stage to successive enter tainments widely different in character, the Irish play of which we gave a full account last week has now been trans ferred from the Standard. The absurdities of tho plot of The Eviction, and especially the marvellous coincidences of the last act, in ...

... FIFTY years ago or more the name of Tree was almost as familiar in the mouths of playgoers as the name of Terry in these later days. Mrs. Charles Kean, who died at her residence at Bayswater on the 20 ...

... jlPHjlj Jytusic) PROMENADE CONCERTS.-- The Italian opera season having come to an end, another sort of musical entertainment is now to be heard within the walls of Covent Garden Theatre. Messrs. A. an ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. THE selections of music provided at recent Promenade Con certs at Covent Garden have in most cases been highly merito rious, and it is evident that Mr. F. Cowen is resolved to study quality as well as quantity. The programme of the English concert given yesterday week was worthy of the occasion, although none but modern English composers were illustrated. The overture ...

... . Tender and True by Wir. Artiiuk Law, late 2lst R.S. Fusiliers, Remington and Co. This is not an insidious attempt to administer in the form of a novel a treatise on the mysteries of drill, or an exposition of the art of war. It is a healthy and graceful love story, introducing just enough of military life and adventure to give it colour, without involving the reader in special details and ...