... . MR. W. HOLLAND continues at the Surrey Theatre to give his patrons dramatic entertainment of divers kinds. It is not very long ago that Mr. Warner was horrifying his South London audience with Drink, and melodrama is now abruptly changed for tragedy of the most approved conventional description. That Mr. Oreswick will prove very attractive in Sheridan Knowles's once popular play is scarcely ...

... . ON Saturday last the first of the series of Promenade Concerts at Covent Garden organised by Mr. Samuel Hayes was given with remarkable success, the theatre being filled to over flowing. The quality of the band is the most important con sideration at promenade concerts, and on this head Mr. Hayes may be congratulated. The nucleus of the band appears to consist of the excellent body of ...

... . THE highly popular Madame Favart, the work of the now late Jaques Offenbach, having finished its course-- for the present-- at the Brighton Theatre, the Strand company have returned to their diminutive home in London, and have opened a fresh cam paign with a new work by a new composer. It is seldom that in a theatre you find a second huge triumph. Like a great man's children, one seldom ...

... . ROYAL COURT THEATRE, Sloane-square, S.W., opposite the District Railway Station. Lessee and manager, Mr. Wilson Barrett. Engagement of Madame Helena Modjeska, who will appear each evening in an adaptation, by Hon. Lewis Wingfield, of Schiler's play, in five acts, entitled Mary Stuart. Scenery by William Beverly, Stafford Hall, and Walter Hann. Costumes by Mons. Victor Barthe. Dresses worn ...

... THE AT RE S MR. BOUCICAULT'S new play at the ADELPHI Theatre has at least furnished that productive dramatist with an opportunity of showing that his powers as an actor, so far from being impaired by ...

... THE REBECCA RIOTER: A Story of Killay Life, by E. A. Dillwyn (2 vols., Macmillan and Co.).-- Miss Dillwyn's first novel --judging it, from internal evidence, to be such-- is the most freshly written ...

... J^usic) jj LEEDS FESTIVAL.-- Although by the time this brief notice goes to press the proceedings of the week will only have reached half way towards their conclusion, the third Triennial Music Festiv ...

... . NEITHER the necessity nor the difficulty of altering Douglas Jerrold's Black Eye'd Susan to bring it with the scope of a fashionable theatre of to-day can reasonably be doubted by any whose imagination can picture for them the first part of the original play as it would appear if given on such a stage and before such audiences as those of the St. James's. The necessity has been recognised; ...

... . 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, ...