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... The Shakespearean revivals at the Lyceum, under the direction of Mr. Irving, have all been remarkable for the care bestowed upon the scenery and accessories but hitherto no one has equalled the beauty ...
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... WHILE complaints are being heard on all hands of the helpless dependence of our theatres upon foreign authors, it is worthy of special note that last week witnessed the successful production on the Lo ...
MUSIC
... CRYSTAL PALACE,-- At the fifth Saturday performance the programme contained two novelties-- a concert-overture by Mr. T. Wingham, and a symphonic poem by Friederic Smétana-- both interesting if for ...
THEATRES
... MR. EDWIN BOOTH has exchanged the part of Cardinal Richelieu in the late Lord Lytton's play for that of Bertuccio in The Tool's Revenge. This is perhaps the finest, and is certainly the most elabo rat ...
MUSIC
... IOLANTHE. --That Mr. Arthur Sullivan, in partnership with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, his alter ego of several years' standing, has merited and won a new success would seem to be unanimously, and on fair gro ...
THE READER
... BALDNESS, unfortunately, is a subject which has a present or prospective interest for most people; even the medical student may find himself attracted to it by a grim spell of personal curiosity as we ...
New Novels
... WITH the recollection of For Percival upon us, it need hardly be said that in Damocles (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.). Margaret Veley has written an able and thoughtful novel. It is most unlikel ...
New Music
... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- It is no easy task to conduct a cotillon, as it is technically called; you may almost as well execute a symphony without a conductor, as to get safely through the mazes of ...
New Music
... Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co. One of our leiding com posers of the day is John Francis Barnett, whose originality of ideas seldom, if ever, fails him. T wo highly meritorious songs composed by him are, ...
New Novels
... MR. JAMES PAYN has for some time past, by common critical consent, been labelled Lively: --Fine Animal Spirits: about as uncom fortable a reputation to have to live up to as can be imagined. A Grap ...
Magazines
... I BPEIgD c t I. A QUARTET, or should we say a quintet, of writers (for Lord Dunsany, as the mouthpiece of Sir Garnet Wolseley, counts for two) discuss in the new number of the Nineteenth Century the b ...
MUSIC
... ■V s\ -Kusic) hmrnmrnm CRYSTAL PALACE. --The Saturday Concerts are going on after the old and approved fashion in which Mr. Manns, their director, has always wisely trusted for success. Three have bee ...