... . Tho Pantomime* ami All About Them (Leopold Wagner. John HeywooJ, I/Ondon).-- In the work before us Mr. Wagner has collected most useful and entertaining facts as to tho rigin, writing, production and co*t of panto mime. Ah a hind-book for all patrons of this clus of entertainment, which has grown into an institution in our midst, we can heartily recommoni this little ix>ok. Western Fijmro ...

... 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 ...

... . 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. ...

... THE revival of Mr. Albery's Two Roses at the LYCEUM Theatre presents Mr. Irving once more in one of the most remarkable of his impersonations. With the exception of a single appearance at a morning pe ...

... . THE difference of opinion between Messrs. Hardy and Comyns Carr on the one hand and Mr. Pinero on the other, as to the source of The Squire, has now taken a decidedly unpleasant turn. The statement that Mr. Hardy, with Mr. Carr's aid, has drama tised his novel, Far From the Madding Crowd, and actually had it accepted for awhile at the St. James's, certainly accen tuates one's surprise that ...

... . THE dawn of the coming musical season may be said to have begun on Monday last, when the Monday Popular Concerts were recommenced at St. James's Hall. This is the twenty- fourth season of these delightful and instructive entertainments, which are still conducted by Mr. Arthur Chappell with the liberality, energy, and sound musical taste by which they have uniformly been characterised. The ...

... . The Olympic Theatre is courageously opened by a young actress named Telbin, for the reproduction of The Member for blocum, the recent performance of which at the Royalty will be recollected. Mr. Onesimus Epps, M.P., is now played, and played verydrolly, by Mr. F. W. Irish; and Epps's mother-in- law (Mr. Sims seems to have a weakness for this relation on the stage) has a capable ...

... . Lits or k Loitdokrk (Lordon David Bofrue, S, St, Martin's Place. Trafalew Sqna-e. W.C. HriceS.) contain! ?II the lat poems l>y Mr. ('lenient Bcott. which have tven published in the page-* of /MmA, the Graphic, the Tht|ii>'t, Jacques UBei.baoh, ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...