... MtUSIC AND THE DRAMA4 (SroX One Owi CCSESFONDKST.) London, Sunday Night. ALTHioUrH the sTwo Roses in still attracting crowded houses to the Lyceum, Mr Irving, anxious to f£dfil his promises to the public, has' resolved to withdraw it after next Saturday afternoon. The theatre will remain closed in order to secure adequate rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet, which is auuounced for March 8. It ...

... NROTEO B3Y 11Ter Pnosma'eii. Iln HoeNGY IscRVING has been eleoted a member of the Athennomr Clnb. Am Old SechoolfolloW,' a ncw oomiediotta by Hr F. ~. ibrceghten, will be Played at the Leodose Criterion shortly, 1Ce,Aonrc DuvAL will receive- its firet tepresenta- tiero BE tile Staoderd Thentre, Now York, hext Monday MAgDIAME MIoaIEeet beea met, witlh extraordinary eneee atica Ila ...

... TgE PRESENT CONDITION OF MUSIC IN BRITAIN., Last night Mr Jobie Spencer'Curwon, member of the Rtoyal Academy of Meslo and President Of the Tonic Sol.Fa College, Loudon, delivored a lecture on The present condition of -sonec Io Britain, in the ba'll of the Young Men's Chriotian Institute. There was a rather smail audience, Mr Curwenl, who, on erteriag the ball, woos received woith applause, ...

... 'PAISLEY MUSICAL FESTIVA! There is not, we fear, much to be told in cor- nection with the musical history of the busy neighbouring burgh. As in many another west country town, the poetical muse has flourished in Paisley in a remarkable degree. Tannahill did not, it is true, travel about with his harp, like a god turned minstrel and so imitate the ancient poet. Yet he has sung to us sweetly, ...

... - ire OPENING CONYERSAZIONL I ?? l- phi The twenty-first annual exhibition of the Glas- tie gow Institute of the Fine Arts was formally opened ic- last night by t!.e Most Noble the Marquis of Bute .st in presence of a large and farshionable assemblage. onl His Lordship was accompanied to the platform, which was placed in the great rooth of the Gal- I terI im ! leries by Messrs James King of ...

... - lTE POS COYL Bailie William Wilson has isned a statement with regard to the Poets Corner in the Mitchell Library. We snake the folowzng extrats:- At the opening of the Mitchell Library i 177 the desire was expressed that there should be formed, as a special department of the library, a collection of the works of Scottish poets and verse writers, nuder the name of the 'Peets' Crner.' The ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRuAMA. 9'1 Lorndon, Sunday Night. It us a been noticed that of recent years, after e a wave of sensational melodrama hats passed, 1-and public taste shows signs of improvement, Ic tnie list evidence of a change usually appears in 1the revival of comedy. Strongly-favoured un drama now holds the hoards of only two of our I- princiosi play-houses, although it shares wsith te ...

... SI8 N G E R' S |SEWING MACHINES. MO:RE THAN 3,500,000 HAVE BEEN SOLD. SbaleS cxco d1 Half al-Million aninalily. The mos approvedw iol all countrics. Hlave reze ved Two liwidred Firat-CIoe iss bcig. S I N (G E R'S-- SEWING MACHuN ' S. The hest fyhe~ltl Farnlly-Eeeiret to learel. f ho bc t fo-r the Dreasuiaker Tho e Ieot duriblo. Tehe b e; for thlo Ta'bior-Sexv the strolngeat eaxois. TIhe brat ...

... GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART AND EIALDANE ACADEIM1. The annual meetiag for distribution of prizos in coltlectiun with the Glewasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy took plane last evening in the r Corporation Galleries, Saucl!ishall Street. Bailia Dunlop presided, and amrougst those present wvere 3 1'rofessor Cleilad, Baelie J. S. Haumltou, Cuuu. cillor Jacksou, Dr Tannahill, Dr Knox, Mir i. Ii. ...

... MUSIC AND TE DRIAMA '!7Ox OUR ON COMRESPONDE-T.) London, Sunday Night. I' Manola, the English version, by Mr Farnie, of M. Lecocq's latest opera Le Jour et La Nuit, was produced last night at the Strand Theatre. It need hardly be said that the English libretto differs greatly from the original. MM. Vauloo and Leterrier, the French authors, have in Lo Jour et La Nuit out- Heroded Herod ...

... MUSICAL AND DRAhUTIC GOSSIP. , I; Afit Tb fiit-drop'oi Mc To~cl ebe's, theetre in Lendimnl%., ante- y M Wilie G~ver th bolebratledn-t anditle. irigh leaer cd- miiicer c theTheare lcyal Glaegvirl.- The ebjectin Teh: Maice, ith vew-ofthe Siliaey-, II acijIS~r~d an Ben Neca-,- vie aa~ei~lvc siviclea,60 iWto nth culd tteAer1~ hate ., andou 1t M rit:Hc~ dE tite dithe, authoro theethi callill ?i9 ...

... H :- ; MISS ADPLINtI/ STANFIOPO. is The play of That Beautiful Wrytch, the title of Ir which; as everybody knows, is devised from Black's r- novelette of that name, is an adaptation from ths same French source as Miss Word's drama of iD Forgot-ice-net, and slhows moCd skill in the adap. sr- tastiou. We erred, per inenrieao, in saying that this :n- adaptaton Was do to the lion of Mr Ameory ...