... 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.-- Gounod's Faust, always attractive with Mdlle. Pauline Lucca as the heroine, remains so still. Her Marguerite is a thing unique of its class, and for admirably sustained earnestn ...

... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND CO.-- In good time for preparation for the midsummer holiday displays at ladies' schools or colleges comes Agnes of the Sea, a cantata, with soli and chorus, for so ...

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... . YES, Whit Monday has been, and come, and gone again, and the demon with the concertina has been loose all over the metro polis and its surroundings. His lady-love, in the expressive words of Mr. Perkyn Middlewick, returned to her home, Wearing her hornet a good deal on one side, and weeping when spoken to harsh. The knight of the concertina is per haps the most offensive of English ...

... IN THE FLOWER OF HER YOUTH, a Novel, by Mabel Collins (3 vols.: F. V. White and Co.), is full of unquestionable power. As too often happens, however, this power is exercised upon a story with which ...

... IN speculative matters there is nothing like a practical test. For many years past Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft have been made familiar with the proposition that their patrons are weak-nerved, listless folk, ...

... -DRAMA. HAYMARKET THEATRE. WITHOUT any depreciation of the remarkable success scored at the Haymarket by the production there of M. Sardou's Fedora, it may fairly be said that this was greatly increased by the dis trust with which the undertaking had been very generally regarded. At best it had scarcely been expected to rise above the level of a tour de force, a dramatic curiosity given under ...

... . The first Richter Concert of the season was given last Mon day at St. J ames's Hall, and was fairly wellattended, a large num ber of amateurs and musicians being present, including H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Part I. of the concert was given In Memoriam Richard Wagner, and included excellent perform ances of his Faust Overture, Introduction to Parsifal, Siegfried's Euneral March, and ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. MME. ALBANI on Saturday last made her rentrée on the Covent Garden stage, with which is associated the recollection of her earliest and greatest triumphs. The part selected for this occasion was that of Gilda in Verdi's greatest work, Riyoletto. As heretofore, she invested her impersonation with a strong personal interest. No artist has ever appeared to be so ...

... Indian Racina Reminiscences. Bv M. Hoeace Hayes (late Captain The Buffs), author of Riding on the Flat and Across Country, Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners, &o. Lon don W. Thacker and Co.. 87, Newgate-street. 1883. A BOOK addressed to a special class can hardly be of complete and consistent interest to the world in general, and Captain Hayes' new book has been produced in the first ...

... j eMsUSIC) ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The opera selected for performance on the first night of the season was Verdi's Aïda, which since its original production, under the management of the late Mr. Freder ...