... . Ox Saturday last the Crystal Palace Saturday Concert season opened with a concert which attracted a large gathering of musicians. The following selection was provided, including one absolute novelty besides well-known works. 1. Overture, Euryanthe Weber. 2. Reoit. and Air, Ear greater in li;s lowfy state (Heine tie Saba) Gounod. Mrs. Osgood. 3. Concertstiick in G for Piano and Orchestra ...

... . THE first concert of the tenth season of popular concerts under the direction of Mr. De Jong was given in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Saturday evening last, the vocalists engaged for the occasion being Mme. Christine Nilsson, Miss Damian, and Mr. Walter Clifford. Mme. Nilsson was received with immense applause from the audience, numbering about four thousand persons, and sang, Bel ...

... . IT is well that Mme. Modjeska should have commenced her second season in England in some play other than Heartsease; but we cannot think it altogether well that she should have commenced in a version of Schiller's Mary Stuart. Respectable authority has pronounced the play a beautiful tragedy; but it is not probable that the beauty of the work would have been discovered had its author not ...

... . 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 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; ...