... . THE LATE MISS N a ILSOX.-- Messrs. Newman and Co., 43, II art Street. Woorasbnry. W C.t have just issued a most charming little volume, which is s memorial skcch of tho late Miss Ncilson. It is written ly one who is evidently thoroughly well informed on this subject, and is embellished with a beautiful photograph of the jr'ftod actress, together with a fac-imilc of a quotation written ly, ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Mr. Gye opened the season on Monday with Verdi's Aida, which the experience of five years has only served to raise higher and higher in the estimation of London amateurs, as the ...

... MESSRS. REID BROTHERS.-- From Fence come six songs of fair average merit. Very pathetic, and calculated to draw tears to eyes even of those who are not over sensitive, is Only a Child, a soprano son ...

... THE hero who gives his name to Harold Saxon: a Story of the Church and the World; by Alan Muir (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is one of those uncomfortable young men who go into the Church appare ...

... . Mr. Toole has soon managed to work up the practical fun of The Wizard of the Wilderness, a piece of nonsense which depends for it's success upon its exponent's cheery impudence and con trol over a sympathetic audience. Need it be said that the tricks played in a country town-hall by Didimus Dexter, a chemist of conjuring proclivities,'' are enjoyed at least as much when they fail as when ...

... THE PARK. THEATRE. A DRAMATIST who calls himself Owl, and has apparently had very little experience in his craft, is responsible for the piece produced at the Park Theatre, Camden Town, under the name of Gerty. Those who have read and have not forgotten that popular story of some years ago, The Lamplighter, will be familiar with the cruel treatment of a foundling at the hands of a hag ...

... . An invitation concert was given by this society at the Mansion House on Saturday last, with decidedly satisfactory results. The orchestra numbered over 100 performers, all with a very few exceptions --being amateurs. The Meerestille und Gliickliche Gefahrt overture (Mendelssohn), with which the concert commenced, was capitally played, and similar successes were made in the march from Faust ...

... TO the list of American actors who have successfully made their appearance of late in London must now be added Mr. John McCullough, a tragedian of some renown in the United States, who presented himse ...

... MISS BLACKBURNE has scarcely written up to her usual mark in Shadows in the Sunlight, (3 vols.: Cecil Brooks and Co.). It is mainly as a portrait-painter of Irish life and character that she has ach ...

... . As is usual, Passion week is a very quiet one indeed at the theatres, some of which, headed by the Lyceum, have followed the old custom of closing altogether between Palm Sunday and Good Friday. These, however, are fewer than they have often hitherto been; so too are the changes of programme deliberately arranged for Easter-tide. The fact is that special times and seasons are less and less ...

... . ANOTHER of those periods which Mr. Hollingshead would pro bably term visitations is upon us, and for a few days theatrical establishments, except such as are basking in the beams of ultra- popularity, will be given to feel that piety as an observance is not quite dead in England. Some of the theatres have closed their doors for the week, but are busied within rehearsing the glories of the ...

... . NEITHER blush, gentle reader, nor be in anywise shocked at the ample display of nether limbs that decorate this page to-day. They are not the counterfeit presentments of a giddy theatrical display, or in any way subjects over which the Lord Chamber lain holds petticoating sway. The legs are for the most part the legs of Cumberland, and they have been unbreeched for the good old Cumberland ...