... fez /A.V vvvvy EGYPT AFTER THE WAR. Being the Narrative of a Tour of Inspection (undertaken last Autumn, &c., &c.). By Villiers Stuart, of Dromana, M.P., Author of Nile Gleanings. With numerous co ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.-- Since the production of the Piper of Hamelin, a work almost lost on so large a stage as that of Covent Garden, the republic of artists have been content with revivals of famil ...

... tdii EB MR. TOOLE, in the character of a wealthy and eligible single gentleman of somewhat susceptible temperament, surrounded by young ladies of flirting propensities, whose worldly interests are in ...

... ALFRED HAYS.-- This publisher has brought out the vocal score of F. Chassaigne's comic opera, Falka; the English version of which is by H. B. Farnie. The success of this opera is already well establis ...

... . MR. C. W. Spencer, a young actor of some promise, though at present deficient in training, gave a matinee at the Gaiety Theatre on Wednesday last, in order to show what he could do with Mr. Neville's old character in The Serf His effort was commendable chiefly for its sincerity of purpose. In grace of gesture and refined elocution Mr. Spencer must take a good many lessons before he can hope ...

... 'Our Friend the Bog. By Gordon Stables, C.M., M.D., R.N. London: Dean and Son, 160a, Fleet-street, L.C. It is a great thing for an author to know his subject, and iBr. Stables has an unquestionable knowledge of dogs. It is also a great thing for a man who writes a book to have some literary ■skill and taste and here Dr. Stables is lamentably deficient. A more consistently clumsy writer has ...

... . AGAIN Mr. W. S. Gilbert has returned to the magic P in the selection of a title for his -work, and we have the Princess Ida in full fig at the Savoy Theatre. On Saturday evening, the initial night of its production, the usual first nighters were in force in the various portions of the house which they select to inhabit and have allotted to them. I was curious to investigate the young ...

... . THE only event of importance during the past week at Covent Garden has been the production of Mr. Julian Edwards's opera, Victorian. We last week gave a copious account of the plot, and an analysis of the music, and have now only to refer to the results of the performance. We regret to say these were less satisfactory than we had anticipated from an examination of the pianoforte score ...

... . WHEN we hinted, some time back, that a season of German opera, under Hans Richter, might probably take place at Covent Garden in conjunction with the regular season of the Royal Italian Opera Company, incredulity was expressed in various quarters We were at that time aware that all the terms of the arrangement between Herr Franke and the direc tors of the Royal Italian Opera Company had ...

... . A BAND of train-worn travellers arrived in the busy town of Liverpool a little less than a week ago, their mission being to unpack the White Elephant and register their opinions to an anxious world through the medium of what Mr. Gladstone would term that great engine the press. The physically high and mentally mighty representative of the greatest show man in the world (Phineas T. Barnum ...

... OMNIUM GATHERUM.-- Mdlle. Lilli Lehmann, the original Flosshilde of Wagner's Lohengrin, at Bayreuth and elsewhere, has been so seriously indisposed that, by medical advice and managerial consent, she ...

... MISS ADA CAVENDISH has returned to the London stage from which she has too long been absent, and, fortunately for her admirers, has chosen for the occasion what is perhaps her strongest part. It is tr ...