... THE reappearance of Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt at the Gaiety has been attended with every sign of sustained popularity, the theatre, in spite of the warm weather, being filled every night by audiences amo ...

... DR. CHARLES MACKAY'S Luck, and What Came of It-- a Tale of Our Times (3 vols.: W. H. Allen and Co.), is a thoroughly clever, amusing novel. It makes no attempt to go below the surface of Society, or ...

... THE PRIVATE SECRETARY (3 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), is a novel of exceptional ability, displaying both unusual knowledge of the world and that insight into character which is gained less from exper ...

... M. MASSENET, the composer of Le Roi de Lahore, has written an oratorio, called Eva, which is about to be performed at Berlin.-- M. Planquette, to whom the world is indebted for the unexceptionable Clo ...

... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- A more seasonable and appropriate musical gift will not be met with than the second volume of Old English Ditties, selected from Chappell's Music of the Olden Times, a w ...

... x\v//:/771:; ll^ME 1;::;>K1V y /-VX; vvvxv^Ni: THE eighth volume of Guizot's History of France from 1789 to 1843 (Sampson Low and Co.) completes the work. The last of its seventy-four engravings rep ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The hopes engendered by the debut of Madame Fursch-Madier have been further strengthened by her impersonation of Agatha in Der Freischiitz. The pensive Prize-maiden is a chara ...

... THE IMPERIAL THEATRE, which has a special function in the way of giving permanent afternoon performances, has reopened with a new comedy drama, entitled Under the Mistletoe which is the joint work of ...

... MESSRS. SCHOTT AND CO.-- Fogli Volantiis the title of eight pieces for the pianoforte, by G. Sgambati, published in a neat album form. They are all musicianly compositions, more difficult to read th ...

... . The farewell oratorio performances given by Mr. Sims Reeves at the Albert Hall have thus far attracted large audiences, although considerable disappointment has been felt by amateurs, who were anxious to hear the famous tenor in the standard works promised in the prospectus. At the first con cert Mr. Reeves was unable to sing through Judas Maccabceus, and the aid-of Mr. W. H. Cnmmings was ...

... . AFTER, doubtless, what the daily papers in their bulletins of the proceedings of exalted personages would call a favourable time, Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan brought forth their æsthetic opera. This mountain of combined genius and intel lect produced a-- well, a tolerably large-sized rat. England, let us hope, has always expected every man to do his duty, and, in these days of supposed ...

... . IT was a good title, Masks and Faces, when the authors thought of putting a play to it, for the interest was sure to appeal to the many-headed in so very many ways, all converging to the great central social question, Which are the masks and which are really the faces. But, apart from this, no title could be more suitable to the exigencies of the plot round which Messrs. Tom Taylor and ...