... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . THE old-fashioned term of Promenade, whether it referred to the stroll, the amble, the strut, the walk, or the lounge in the pump-room or the park, is strangely altered in its acceptation when now applied to Concerts given at Covent Garden, Theatre Royal. The Crush Concerts, or Block Concerts, might more fittingly be applied to the sort of thing that nightly happens in that ...

... . IT is with satisfaction that we are able to contragulate Miss Mary And rson upon a distinct success in her débût at the Lyceum last Saturday. She ran two risks on her first appear ance, the first caused by the injudicious manner in which some of her friends had heralded her approach as the greatest actress of the day, and the second connected with Mr. Abbey's choice of a play for the ...

... . DUFF AND STEWART, 2, Hanover- street, W.-- What an angel heard, 4s., a ballad, written and composed by Louisa Gray. The laws of rhythm are disregarded, but there is poetical feeling in the verses, and the melody is pleasant. The har mony is defective.-- Dermot and I, 4s., by the same writer, is simple, but sufficiently pleasing.-- Lost awhile, 4s., by the same writer. In this, as in ...

... . THE Standard Theatre in Shoreditch is a landmark of some established reputation. There are railway stations surrounding it and converging to the various districts of adjacent London. I would, however, from my experience as a provincial visitor, hailing from the wilds of Fleet-street or the Strand, caution fellow greenhorns not to depend, at a late hour of the evening, upon the directions ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON FESTIVAL.-- Little more needs to be added to the preliminary details about the Wolverhampton Musical Festival which appeared in our last week's impression. Enough that it fully answered ...

... . The programmes have been varied and highly attractive during the present week, and that of Wednesday, tho classical night, diew a very large audience. Although several leading members of the orchestra woro at the Gloucester Festival, their places had been satisfactorily filled by the deputies engaged. The ove ture to Oberon was admirably given, nnd Mozart's Jupiter symphony in C called ...

... . A loud and sincere welcome was accorded on Monday night both to Miss E. Farren and to the burlesque drama which brought back to the Gaiety a crowd of its customary patrons. It is evident that plenty of life is still left in Blue Beard, for, even without tho attractions of Miss Kate Vaughan's grace and Mr. Terry's humour, the revival was warmly appreciated, and was thoroughly popular from ...

... . IRVING ACTOR AND MANAGER, A CRITICAL STUDY, by William Arclior, published by Field and Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, E. C., is the third in what the publishers call The Vellum Parchment Shilling Series of Literature. The little book under notice, u no now facta of >lr. Trvirc. dc-nN with hto r*''fl i iir?er in Hn honent, it fck11!! \\l ln'lod we wen' 1:-1-i 'rvm..r ,,,,t i,,. i,^ ...

... WHEN a playwright or novelist affixes to his production a title in which the definite article figures in the affected abbreviated form of Ye, it may in the words of the poet Cowper be said of his pe ...

... MR. JAMES PAYN'S Thicker than Water (3 vols.: Longmans, Green, and Co.), is not a very satisfactory example of its author's faculty for construction. It reads as if it had been written from hand to ...