... MESSRS. MORLEY AND CO.-- Few of our readers but are well acquainted with, and admirers of, the ever-green Ingoldsby Legends, one of which, Winifred Price, the Milkmaid's Story, has been chosen as th ...

... THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY.-- The opening of Mr. Rosa's season of operatic performances in London is always looked forward to with interest. This year the theatre elect is again Her Majesty's, in the ...

... ADELPIII THEATRE. IT is evident that Mr. Meritt and Mr. G. R. Sims are not to have to themselves the field of sensation drama just now. At the Adelpbi there has just been produced a melodrama by Mr. Henry Pettitt as interesting and striking as The Lights o' Lon don, and a great deal more interesting than either Youth or The World. On its first night Taken from Life bid fair to be a suc cess of ...

... OPERA COMIQIJE. MR. SIMS'S Mother-in-Law is described on the playbills as a frivolous comedy. As a matter of fact it is a regular farcical comedy, or in other words a farce in three acts. It is obviously produced at the wrong theatre, and the company does not seem particularly well selected for its task. But still the piece causes plenty of laughter, and does so by commendably innocent means ...

... . MR. HERMAN MERIVALE, who is one of the most original, most cultivated, of the authors now writing for our stage, has in his last work made an effort in which utter failure would scarcely have involved disgrace. He has tried to give us a modern Faust capable of interesting both those who do and those who do not regard his play as the shadow of an old legend in modern life. To the one set of ...

... . Legends of my Bungalow, by Fiiedeeick Boyle, Author of Camp Notes, The Savage Life, &c. &c. With a Frontispiece. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1882. Few Englishmen have seen as much of the habitable globe as Mr. Frederick Boyle. He knows not only the capitals of Europe, but out-of-the-way districts in Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Roumelia. A good many years have passed since he ...

... . THE task of picking to pieces a comedy like Ours is none the less unwelcome because it is so extremely easy. Any playgoer who stands in the position of Macaulay's any schoolboy can point out how thin and superficial is the cynicism of the intro ductory act, how little real dramatic interest attaches to the misunderstanding between Sir Alexander Shendryn and his wife, how slow the feeble ...

... . Hi! hi! walk up! walk up! The show is just about to be gin! is the tone of the entertainment to be found within the walls of the Westminster Aquarium. Tattooed noblemen, hairless steeds of Araby, men with elastic skins, intrepid feats of daring on the slack wire, to say nothing of alligators and beau tiful women who swim, as to the manner born, are amongst the many attractions offered for ...

... . AT the Olympic, where The Member for Slocum remains on the programme for a short time longer, a musical sketch, entitled Ten Minutes for Refreshment, by Mr. Richard Mansfield, now takes its place as the lever de rideau instead of A Rustic Maiden. The scene of the trifle, which can scarcely be said to have a plot, is laid at a railway station, in the waiting-room of which there assemble a ...

... THEY did not condemn him wholly. One part genius, one part imposture, one part made up of a self-delusion amounting almost to insanity-- such was in the mind of Clement and of Geraldine the compositi ...

... . Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales. By P. Ch. Asejornsen. Translated by H. L. Braekstad. London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Living ton. THE name of Asbjörnsen is, perhaps, better known to English readers than his works, although, from time to time, some of his stories have been translated, and have reached us princi pally through American sources. The present collection ...

... . After the suocess of the Hanlou-Lees in pantomimic vaudevillo it was to bo expected that this form of entertainment, though not fully acclimatised with us, would be repeated at intervals. Tho prosent specimen of it afforded at the Imperial, or Afternoon Theatre, under the management of Mr. J G. Carruthers, is very attractive. So far as its literary element is concerned it is the work of Mr. ...