... ENGLISH readers ought occasionally to be reminded that a French novel is not of necessity unfit for general reading, and that to be found absorbed in a volume covered with yellow paper does not invari ...

... MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO.-- Part XI. Vol. II. of A Dictionary of Music and Musicians brings us from Opera to Palestrina; the former, contributed by F. H. Jenks, of Boston, U.S.A., is quite an ex ...

... THE ROYALTY Theatre has reopened under the management of Miss Kate Lawler, who has invoked the assistance of Mr. Byron, and obtained from the pen of that fertile writer a new comedy, bearing the title ...

... A MANAGER who has in these days the courage to produce a substantial dramatic work by an English author of comparatively untried abilities is entitled to the friendly consideration of all those who ar ...

... . MR. ARMIT'S prospectus of the season of Italian opera about to be given under his management at Her Majesty's Opera merits favourable notice. Perhaps there is no portion of it more welcome than tho announcement that an entirely new choir of sixty-two voices has been engaged. For some years past the inefficiency of the choristers at Her Majesty's Opera has attracted attention, and last season ...

... . AFTER much fuss and bother, a great deal of false alarm, and not a little indirect advertisement, the ridiculus mus has made its appearance at the Adelphi Theatre. The new play, or rather the play passed on to us from Ireland and America, which professed to he inspired by a semi-political purpose, and to have so noble and patriotic an aim, turns out to be a domestic drama of very ...

... . Dramatic Life as I Found It. A Record of Personal Experience with an account of the Rise and Progress of the Drama, in the ail(l South, with Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of the Principal Actors and Actresses who have at times appeared upon the Stage in the Mississippi Valley. By N. M. Ludlow, Actor and Manager for Thirty-eight Years. St. Louis: G. I. Jones and Co. 1880. London: ...

... . IT was to be expected when Mr. Warner made his big and rapid strides in histrionic art and public favour that he would, when opportunity presented itself, give the town a taste of his quality in the higher flights of dramatic ambition. It is a very little time back that Mr. Warner was the accepted favourite-- especially of the ladies--in the rôle of manly, handsome lovers The light and airy ...

... THE WELLFIELDS: A Novel, by Jessie Fothergill (3 vols: Bentley and Son).-- Whatever loss of freshness may be apparent in the latest work of the authoress of Probation and The First Violin is com ...

... LOVE AND LIFE: an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume, by Charlotte M. Yonge (2 vols.: Macmillan and Co.).-- Some years ago Miss Yonge published a novel, original both in idea and in execution, ...

... LEEDS FESTIVAL.-- A few general remarks about the Third Triennial Musical Festival held in Leeds will answer all purposes. Into particulars our daily contemporaries have entered so largely as to absol ...

... . THE new burlesque at the Gaiety is a production of what is designated the inevitable kind. A hit such as Mr. Irving has lately made in The Corsican Brothers was sure to be parodied before very long, and this being the case, it was equally certain that the comedian entrusted with the role of the Dei Franchi would make capital out of more or less accurate imitation of the tragedian's ...