... I aMaUSie) X WAIFS.-- The International Exhibition being appointed to take place at Munich simultaneously with the representations of Parsifal at Bayreuth, the orchestra of the Royal Theatre, upon who ...

... 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 ...

... MUSIC. CO VENT GARDEN CONCERTS. AT the present moment the only concert entertainments regu larly provided for the enjoyment of metropolitan amateurs are the admirable Promenade Concerts given nightly at Covent Garden. So fine an orchestra has seldom, if ever, been heard at Promenade Concerts, and as the programmes always contain plenty of music worth hearing, musicians as well as amateurs are ...

... . CHAPPELL AND Co., 50, New Bond-street.-- The two popular operas, Rip Van Winkle, by Robert Planquette, and Iolanthe, by Arthur Sullivan, have furnished some highly welcome dance music, just issued by Messrs. Chappell and Co., the fortunate publishers of both operas. In the arrangement of the leading melodies for ballroom purposes, the practised and skilful hand of Mr. Charles D'Albert has ...

... . LAST, but not by any means least, amongst the seasonable holi day productions came The Yellow Dwarf, which would have opened the Pandora, had the new building in Leicester Square been ready for occupation. This piece, which has for its authors, Messrs. Reece and Thompson, is to all intents and purposes, harlequinade alone excepted, a pantomime; and the scale on which it is presented makes it ...

... . IT was the following missive brought me to the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, the other day:-- 'KRAO.' Farini's 'What is it?' The 'missing link!' The talking monkey! Captain Hobson and. Mr. G. A. Farini present their compliments to Dr. Captious Critic, Esq., and request the pleasure of seeing him at the private view of 'Krao'-- 'Krao' undoubtedly, one of those missing links for which the late ...

... IT is no detraction from the merits of Mr. David Christie Murray's former novels to say that Val Strange: a Story of the Primrose Way (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus), contains some of the best work tha ...

... . A System of School-training for Horses. By Edwakd L. Anderson. W. H. Allen and Co. WHYTE-MELVILLE has lamented, in one of his books, over the fact that a hunter seldom begins to approach perfection in manners until he begins to approach unsoundness in his legs. The vices and awkward tricks of temper which are, so far, too prevalent amongst horses of every description, may be safely said not ...

... THE honours of the most successful theatrical débût which the Christmas holidays have witnessed belong, beyond question, to the performing elephants in Messrs. Alfred Thompson and Robert Reece's brill ...

... . Thi SurTF-Boi Polka, by Gilljort Bya.-- A well-marked and capital air, easy to play, anJ one that should bo la greiu request at this foiivo season. Bbah ...

... . The Fowler in Ireland. By Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, Bart. With numerous Illustrations. London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster-row. In the preface to this work the author points out that though many books have been published on the subject of birds, they have been written rather from naturalists' than from the sports man's point of view, little information being given regarding the habits of ...

... . The Fowler in Ireland. By Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, Bart. With numerous Illustrations. London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster- row. In the preface to this work the author points out that though many books have been published on the subject of birds, they have been written rather from naturalists' than from the sports man's point of view, little information being given regarding the habits of ...