... WOLVERHAMPTON FESTIVAL.-- The Wolverhampton Musical Festival, which comes off next week, and is established in aid of the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Hospital, promise; to be lively and agre ...

... MESSRS. RICORDI.-- Five songs, music by Luigi Caracciolo, are of more than ordinary merit, and reflect great credit on their composer. So Far Away is a very charming song, published in three keys; t ...

... MRS. LEITH ADAMS has written more important novels than Cosmo Gordon (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), and two or three, at least, which are more likely to dwell in the memories of those who admire her w ...

... IN taking a sort of formal farewell of the late Mr. Robertson's pieces, the rights over which are passing into other hands, Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft have done wisely in selecting for revival the comedy o ...

... THOUGH it would be difficult to place the finger upon any objectionable passages in Colonel and Mrs. Revel, by Laslett Lyle (3 vols.: Tinsley Brothers), exception must nevertheless be tak ...

... THE OPERA AT NEW YORK.-- Mr. Mapleson starts on the 4th prox. for New York, to resume his management of Italian Opera at the Academy of Music. With Mr. Abbey's new enterprise now staring him in the fa ...

... MESSRS. RICORDI.-- On the Continent the guitar, as a simple support for the voice, has long been popular, but of late professors have taken pains to develope the resources of this instrument, and the ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- The current number of Novello's Original Octavo Edition will prove of more than ordinary interest to the musical amateur. It contains the Bohemian composer Anton Dvo ...

... MR. JULIAN HAWTHORNE'S Dust (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) is, as its very striking title goes far to indicate, inspired by a very strong and direct moral purpose, and indeed covers an exceedingly lar ...

... . 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 ...