... MESSRS. DUNCAN DAVISON AND CO.-- Both words and music of five songs are by H. Croft Hiller. Hearts is a song of medium compass, the words and music are fairly good; Nothing But a Dream is the path ...

... 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 ...

... Two Fresh German Arctic Expeditions start in June, in order to establish as near as possible to the North and South Poles stations for meteorological and astronomical observations. Two Fresh German Ar ...

... THE ambition of making a reputation on the English stage which is so often displayed by foreign actresses is not difficult to understand, when we consider how many foreign performers have mastered the ...

... ROBERT COCKS.-- Nos. 4 and 9 of Popular Trios for Ladies' Voices are Farewell, by Curschmann, better known as Adieu, a lovely melody; and Parting, by R. Schumann; the English versions are by J ...

... A PASSING mention must suffice for Mr. Boulding's new verse play, in five acts, brought out at the ADELPHI theatre on Saturday morning by the title of The Double Rose. Mr. Boulding is the same gentlem ...

... POPULAR CONCERTS.-- These admirable and instructive enter tainments are going on with a new series which promises to be as successful as any of its precursors. Although the twenty-fifth season began b ...

... EVERY one has now heard of the disastrous failure of Mr. Tennyson's new rustic drama, The Promise of May, at the GLOBE Theatre, and nobody who reads the papers can fail to have some notion of the chie ...

... I 1 WE have put up a monument to Balfe, and now we have his biography. And whilst of these, one is bad art, the other is but indifferent literature. Mr. William Alexander Barrett in Balfe: His Life a ...

... MR. BERESFORD HOPE has written The Brandreths (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett) rather for the benefit of those who are already familiar with his former novel of Strictly Tied Up than with the view of ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- As a useful and valuable addition to the musical library, as well as a pleasing remembrance of one who was universally beloved, respected, and mourned, The Collected Works o ...

... THE management of the VAUDEVILLE Theatre, after a resolute and protracted effort to maintain its stand upon new comedies, has fallen back upon what may now be called a tradition of the house, seeing t ...