... . It would be a serious undertaking to tell the complicated story unfolded by Messrs. Paul Meritt and George Conquest in the six acts of their new melodrama, The Crimes of Paris. There are few of the commandments which the hero, a dashing swindler known as The Demon, who calls himself the Viscount de Vismes, leaves unbroken and his colleagues, The Plunger, Tho Dandy, and The Dummy, do their ...

... . Virginia and Paul, acomie opera in two acts, previously produced in America, was re-produced at the Gaiety Theatre last Monday, for the first time in England. The libretto is by Mr. H. P. Ste phens, the music by Mr. E. Solomon, and the two collaborateurs have evidently aspired to rival another eminent couple of collabo- rateurs SirArthur Sullivanand Mr. W. S. Gilbert. In Virginia and Paul ...

... . IT was no doubt with the best of good intentions that a miscellaneous entertainment was on Saturday afternoon given at the Adelphi Theatre in aid of the Royal College of Music, and it is to be hoped that this excellent institution will duly profit by the strange efforts thus made on its behalf. We may, how ever, be permitted to doubt whether any useful object likely to be attained by the ...

... . THERE is some little promise in All Lost, a short dramatic sketch by Mr. Tom Craven, the son of the popular author of Meg's Diversion, and other domestic dramas of the humorous order. All Lost was played, and not very well played, for the first time at Sadler's Wells last Saturday, the only actor whose name at all deserves mention being Mr. Darvey. Its story, which is told by the aid of a ...

... Compiled by Lieut.-Col. Babing- tox, late i tu Hussars. With portraits. William .Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1883. THE foxhunters of Fife are fortunate in having probably the handsomest book that was ever devoted to the history of a pack of hounds. It is indeed a pity that the interest of so carefully- written and well-finished a book should be chiefly local. The reader who ...

... . MERRY Islington has never lacked for dramatic incident both within and without; nor, indeed, for sporting incident, seeing that the famous Dick Turpin did his ride against time along its roads-- though I believe it is disputed that he ever rode at all: but there, good jockeys are often doubted. But if Turpin did not, Gilpin surely did. The account is too circumstantial ever to have been ...

... The Devon and Somerset Staghounds meet at 10.45 on Monday, March 1 2, at Triscomhe Stone. The Devon and Somerset Staghounds meet at 10.45 on Monday, March 1 2, at Triscomhe Stone. The Reported Death of Kincseh. With reference to the death of the celebrated mare Kincsem, said to have been shot on Tuesday last, the Sportsman has authority for stating that the story was devoid of foundation, and ...

... . MADDISON MORTON'S old farce, My Wife's Second Floor, was revived by Mr. Toole at his theatre with the merriest results last Saturday morning. His part in it is that of a domestic factotum, who is so very mysterious and extra discreet that he manages for awhile to set everyone by the ears. Even without the comic song, Villikins and his Dinah, Jacob Close would in the hands of Mr. Toole be a ...

... . METZLER and Co., 37, Great Marlborough-street.-- Valse Vénétienne, 2s. net, by E. Waldteufel. This is a really charming waltz, worthy of the composer.-- His waltz, Au Printemps, 2s. net, is less original in character, but well adapted for the ballroom.-- -The Br'er Rabbit polka, 4s., by A. Tindal, is of average merit.-- The Gloucestershire March, 4s., by H. Clendon, is spirited and ...

... . THE third concert of the 71st season of this society was given last week at St. James's Hall, and attracted an enormous audience, hundreds of applicants being unable to obtain admis sion, and numbers being content to stand throughout the even ing. We are enabled to say that the receipts exceeded those of any concert given by the society since its foundation in the year 1813. It seems natural ...

... . TO a house by no means full, Mme. Judic, M. Dupuis, and their companions of the Variétés company, presented last Monday the first instalment of this season's French plays. The choice made was not a very happy one, for there is much child ishness, not a little vulgarity, and some real impropriety in the humour, such as it is, of MM. Hennequin, Millaud, and Blum's comedy Lili. This is, however ...

... . THE sixth of the burlesque -dramas at the Gaiety is provided by Mr. Burnand, who has fashioned so merry a piece on the legend of Blue Beard that no change seems likely to be needed here before the time comes, at the beginning of June, for the French plays. Very wisely, as many will think, Mr. Burnand has strayed away from the beaten tracks of the story, and has chosen for his hero not the ...