... . Journalistic London: being a Series of Sketches of Famous Pens and Papers of the Day. By JOSEPH HATTON. Profusely illustrated with engravings from drawings by M. W. Ridley. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown-buildings, 188, Fleet-street. 1882. In undertaking this series of articles for Harper's Magazine, from which they are republished, Mr. Hatton had before him a ...

... . Ox Wednesday last an attractivo addition was made to the repertory of Miss Lila Clay's company of ladies at the Opera Comiqne Theatre, in a new operetta, entitled An Adamless Rden, written hy Mr. Snvile Clarke, and composed by Mr. Walter Slaughter. In the elaboration of the plot, Mr. Clarke supplies so many comic incidents, and a dialogue so genuinely witty, humorous, and good-naturedly ...

... . It is a long time since wo have seen a performance so heartily enjoyed as that of The Rivals at the Vaudeville. The famous comedy goes from first to last, as indeed it should with the best all-round cast which has been allotted to it for many a day. We have no Mrs. Malaprop like Mrs. Stirling, none whose blunders seem so naturally made, whose self-satisfaction is so exquisitely comic, whoso ...

... . Old Coaching Days. By Stanley IIaebis (An Old Stager). Illustrated by John Stuegess. London Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington-street. 1882. THE number of those who speak from experience of the palmy days of coaching, and who are able and willing to write of the good old times, is rapidly diminishing, and that circumstance gives special value to such books as this. Mr. Stanley Harris is ...

... . WITH a truly Hibernian ring that must surely emanate from the seething brain of Mr. Augustus Harris's literary adviser, Mr. Augustus M. Moore, we are informed that London is empty, Drury Lane is full. There is a pleasant suggestion of contradiction in this simple announcement, and if it is fraught with any degree of veracity it must be at least pleasing to the various persons who have ...

... . THE concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, last Saturday, in aid of the sufferers by the burning of the Ring Theatre, Vienna, attracted a very large audience, amongst whom were H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Austrian ambassador, Count Karolyi, and a number of well-known person ages. The director of the musical ...

... . WITH all its undoubted cleverness Foggerty's Fairy has not proved to the taste of Criterion playgoers. This is perhaps scarcely to be wondered at, Mr. Gilbert's humour being of a kind widely different from that which forms the foundation of the pieces to which Mr. Wyndham's habitual patrons are most accustomed-- of Pink Dominoes, Truth, Brighton, et hoe genus omne. Moreover, it must be ...

... . THE colossal theatrical show of the season revealed itself to the public at Drury Lane Theatre on Saturday evening last in the shape of a sensational and domestic drama, entitled Pluck. It is in seven tableaux, and is the story of £50,000, written by Heary Pettitt and Augustus Harris. The irrepressible manager of the theatre, whose name is identified with the writing of the huge ...

... . THE theatrical performance of the play by Messrs. Mackay and Grundy, to which the censor is understood to have refuges his licence, duly came off at the Globe last Thursday morning It proved to be a version, by no means unskilfully effected, of a French comedy very broad and- cynical in its humour. Of course, as usual, most of the point of the original characters and situations seemed to ...

... . EXTRAVAGANCE is the most judicious word that can be used regarding the bucolic pastoral in one scene of intense but of necessity limited interest, which was produced at Toole's theatre on Monday night under the imposing title of The Villainous Squire and the Village Rose. Mr. Byron has looked up some of his old work, which, originally burlesquing the melodramatic squire of bygone drama, ...

... IN Auntie, the new piece written for Mr. Toole by Mr. Byron, there is really very little-- less even than there generally is in the slight farcical works concocted for the popular comedian by the popular playwright. What little there is, however, is good of its kind-- productive of hearty, innocent laughter, and serving for the display of a favourite phase of the actor's humour. rr iien lu i.i ...

... Although Craven's domestic drama, Meg's Diversion, is not particularly well calculated to please the taste of those play goers who delight in Pluto, its reception on Saturday when it was presented at the Royalty by Miss Hilda Hilton and her colleagues was remarkably cordial. Meg's Diversion is an excellent specimen of its dramatic genus, and its lasting popularity is by no means matter for ...