... . THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL, DIRECTORY (published at 9, Adam-street, Adelphi, W. C.). --First numbers of works like this under notice are, as a rule, disappointing. So much in-formation must be gathared to render them not only perfect, but interesting, that it becomes almost impossible to produce at tho start n book anything liko complete in its necessary detail. In this Directory, however, no ...

... . j1 mi., wk! Flr Star of Lore, written M!*J-l>i7ia 1>y ...

... . OLD DRURY LANE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL,--The contributors to this Annual include many well-know names, and the illustrations, the work or such artists as Adelaide Claxton, A.Chasemore. G. Pilotell. and Geo. Crutikshank, are well in hand with the letter-press. Of course the whole production is one of advertisement for the forthcoming pantomime of Cinderella which Mr. A. Harris places upon bis stage ...

... . THREE DAYS a love song, words by Clement Scott, music by Annie Tait, and published by Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co., 84 New Bond-street and325 Oxford-street w., is neither Btartling in it novelty nor particularly tuneful in its melody. The words, too are uneven in in There are glimpses of poetic light in some of the lines while in others there is a puerility quite unworthy the pen from which ...

... CONCERTS.-- At the tenth Crystal Palace Concert the pro gramme, besides a too rarely heard symphony by Haydn (first of the famous Salomon twelve), and, glorious as it is, the over-frequently present ...

... Theatres CYNICAL observers of the tendencies of the modern drama can hardly have failed to draw inferences of an unflattering kind from the circumstance that the numerous published criticisms upon the ...

... NONE who read Mehalah are likely to forget that strangely powerful tragedy, resembling a transfer of the scene of Wuthering Heights from the Yorkshire Moors to the Essex Salt Marshes. John Herrin ...

... t MESSRS. RICORDI.-- A most taking song, which should be heard very often in the concert-room this season, is Plenilunio (Guardate Sempre, Rapita l'Anima), words by Carmelo Errico, music by Paolo ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Our record of the doings at this great establishment need not be long. Quite enough has been said and written about the Mefistofele of Signor Boïto, a spasmodic attempt to intro ...

... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND CO.-- In Weakness, Lord, We Come to Thee, a hymn, by the Rev. C. H. Ostler, music by Florence Grayson Lowood, is a very nice and devotional composition, which would ...

... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- One of Jean Ingelow's beautiful and pathetic poems, The Song of a Boat, has been set to appropriate music by Alice Borton, who has caught the tender beauty of the word ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND SON.-- A pleasing duet, for a mezzo soprano and baritone, is Out With the Tide, written and composed by C. J. Rowe and Francesco Berger. There is a cheerful swing and a more than ...