... . IT is not very probable that Mr. Carton, in occupying the Folly Theatre during the absence of Mr. Toole, really expected to succeed in an undertaking which that well known and popu lar lessee had proved himself unwilling to attempt. Mr. Carton, that is to say, did not open the Folly for the month of August with money-making as his chief object. He was most likely anxious, and that most ...

... . Although this is the morte-saison so far as metropolitan music is concerned, London is not without sources of musical entertainment. At Hengler's Cirque the Promenade Concerts conducted by that able and popular musician, Mr. Weist Hill, have been characterised, by excellence of execution, and while the capital band has done justice to varied and interesting pro grammes, the vocal music has ...

... . IT is some time since I heard the sonorous tones of Miss Marriott sound out tho woes or triumphs of one of the many heroines with whom her name is connected until Monday last, when I hied me to tho theatre of Sadler's Wells, where a new and original play, entitled Sedgemoor, was to be produced for the second time on any stage. It made its first appearance on the previous Saturday evening, ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- Choral societies are now making their preparations for the autumn season, and are eagerly looking out for novelties, secular and sacred. It is a mistake to i ...

... IPrSfj1!;1:.. I THE production of a new historical play at SADLER'S WELLS Theatre in the very midst of what is known to theatrical managers as the dead season is to be explained by the fact that the ...

... The State of the Thames. Assuming that the President of the Local Government Board was one of the guests at the recent Ministerial Whitebait Banquet at Greenwich, it would have been a satisfaction if ...

... I jUI [p'E^i 1 |f^ 1 THE living voice is, indeed, vastly superior to the mere printed record. But Dr. Vaughan's Temple Sermons (Macmillan) are so good-- so unlike sermons in general-- that they disa ...

... MR. PINERO'S new comedy, entitled Imprudence, produced at the FOLLY Theatre under the management of Mr. Carton, who has taken possession of this house in the absence of Mr. Toole, is under stood to be ...

... American Roadsters and Trotlinq Horses. Illustrated -with Photo views of Representative Stallions of the Past and Present. By H. T. Helm, Counsellor- at-Law. Chicago: Rand, McNally, and Co. London Triibner and Co. This is most decidedly a book rather for reference than for reeding. Taking as we do take an interest in the develop ment of the American trotter for is he not a descendant of famous ...

... . SADLER's WELLS THEATRE, for the resuscitation of which the late Mrs. Bateman did so much, is, it is said, to pass before long out of the hands of her daughter, Miss Isabel Bateman, into those of Mr. F. B. Chatterton. In the meanwhile Miss Marriott, whose name used to be associated with Sadler's Wells years ago, re-appears there for a brief season, evidently much to the delight of Islington ...

... . AT the Surrey Theatre, which now passes away from the accustomed control of Mr. Holland, a very suitable production has just been given. New Babylon is the play m which, at the Duke's Theatre, Mr. Paul Meritt foreshadowed such subsequent achievements as The World and Youth. It is, of course, exactly the piece for the Surrey, where its antithetical views of St. James and St. Giles, its Grand ...

... . A cucumber cool young man, A sleek as a mouse young man, A hanky-panky Overgrown Yankee, Front of the house young man. PAUL MERITT, Augustus Harris, Julian Hicks, Gillow and Co., Birmingham Small Arms Company, Sir William Armstrong, Oscar Barrett, and a host of other talent have combined to produce a highly moral piece (several pieces one might say) of dramatic literature, the result of ...