... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... Compiled by Lieut.-Col. Babing- tox, late i tu Hussars. With portraits. William .Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1883. THE foxhunters of Fife are fortunate in having probably the handsomest book that was ever devoted to the history of a pack of hounds. It is indeed a pity that the interest of so carefully- written and well-finished a book should be chiefly local. The reader who ...

... . MERRY Islington has never lacked for dramatic incident both within and without; nor, indeed, for sporting incident, seeing that the famous Dick Turpin did his ride against time along its roads-- though I believe it is disputed that he ever rode at all: but there, good jockeys are often doubted. But if Turpin did not, Gilpin surely did. The account is too circumstantial ever to have been ...

... . MR. EDWARD RIGHTON'S new and original comic drama, Hard Up, produced with fair success at a Strand matinée last week, carries out in its general vulgarity of tone and treatment the promises or threats of its slangy title. But as it has some genuine humour, and is constructed with considerable know ledge of practical stage requirements, it proves able to keep an audience-- at any rate, an ...

... . MADAME ELLMENREICH cannot be honestly congratulated upon the impression which she created by her first London appear ance at the Gaiety on Wednesday afternoon. Her acting is of an exploded school, prone to split the ears of the groundlings, and altogether too noisy to be natural. The character she played was that of Mary Stuart in Schiller's drama of that name, and she attacked it as if she ...

... . THOUGH there is a great deal that is very fresh and pleasing about Young Folks' Ways, and its performance at the St. James's, not muck can be said in praise of the comedy as a work of art. To many of the defects common to the adaptation of novels it adds one which springs from its own insufficiency of dramatic material. Tell the story of Esmeralda, her parents, and her lover how we may, it ...

... . THE part of monologue entertainer is not an easy one to fill satisfactorily throughout a whole evening, and we are not prepared to say that the numerous separate items of Mr. Charles Daval's single-handed performance at St. James's Hall are equal in merit. But this much may fairly be said: Whilst none of his impersonations and songs falls to the level of dulness, some rise to a high rank ...

... . [Our Captious Critic is, like so many other distinguished personages, on his way to Hew York. As soon as he arrives he will send us an account of the incidents of his voyage, and, in the number following, a description of Mr. Irving' s first appearance. Ed. I. S. and I). N. THE other evening I got into a train at the Euston Station, that classic and imposing edifice of the North-Western ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE.-- We have already described the music to be given at the opening concert for the season, and may repeat that the programme was discreetly chosen, with an eye to contrast and variety. S ...