... . ALFRED HAYS, 26, Old Bond-street.-- Falka, 7s. 6d., comic opera by F. Chassaigne; English version by H. B. Farnie. This well-engraved volume contains the whole of tho lyrics, the overture, and incidental music of the well-known opera which has been running successfully at the Comedy Theatre for the last two months. For those who desire the melodies alone, a pianoforte solo edition, price ...

... . LARGE audiences have attended the performances of the Royal English Opera Company at Covent Garden, and The Piper of Hamelin appears to grow in public favour, especially since the almost complete abolition of the delays caused on the opening night by lowering the curtain for changes of scene. Mr. Gilbert H. Betjemann is to he thanked for this alteration, and for one still more remarkable, ...

... . WE are not amongst those who think with Mr. Pinero that the burden of the failure of his new play Low Water rests upon the shoulders of its interpreters. It is no doubt true that some of its parts might easily have been better played, notably that of the strong-minded, kind-hearted, outspoken, and altogether unconventional heroine, nicknamed the Major, from her capacity for taking tho lead ...

... I. FIRST in the field, the National Review opens with Sir Stafford Northcote on Conservative and Liberal Finance. It will not be his fault if his party fails to convince the electors that the Con se ...

... MESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO.-- Whatever may be the short comings of our kinsmen across St. George's Channel, there is something very fascinating in their music, be it plaintive or merry. Songs of Old Irela ...

... DAIRY FARMERS will thank us for reminding them that entries for the Dairy Farming Reports of the British Dairy Farmers' Association should be made before the end of the present month. The Challenge Cu ...

... . 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 ...

... A Biographical Sketch bv Austin 3rebetox. Illustrated with seventeen full-page portraits. London: David Boeue. 1883. MR. HENRY IRVING has created so much stir of late, both in the old world and the new, that a biography of him comes appropriately. The distinguished actor, however, deserved a better biographer. The book is to all appearance hastily and crudely put together, and very extensively ...

... id, i the Stage Studies of Theatrical History and the Actor's Art. Bv Button Cook, author of A Book of the Play, Hours With the Players. London; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 188, Fleet-street. 1883. An interest attached to all that Mr. Dutton Cook wrote, and there is a special and melancholy interest about his last book though possibly this may not be the last volume issued ...

... . IT is generally a difficult matter to alter the character of a public undertaking like the management of a theatre, and Miss Nelly Harris will have accomplished no light task if she has at a bound raised the low reputation of the unlucky little house which has fallen into her bands. Nothing could well be more unfortunate than the associations of the Novelty, alias the Folies Dramatiques, ...