... meATLES IN converting Mr. Hugh Conway's popular novelette into a play, the author and his collaborator, Mr. Comyns Carr, have achieved a difficult task with remarkable success. Called Back was produce ...

... mA jyxr djt mcU) n HENRY NIGHTINGALE; OR, LORD OF HIMSELF, by John Walter Sherer (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is easily dismissed so far as its faults are concerned. It is too long: it has far too m ...

... THE OPERA.-- Mr. Samuel Hayes has issued a preliminary prospectus for his six weeks' season of Italian opera, which will begin at Her Majesty's Theatre on November 4. The director announces that the o ...

... MESSRS. RICORDI.-- Unlinked, words and music by Michael Watson, is a song in every way worthy of its composer.-- Ask Me No More, by Alfred Tennyson and Paolo Tosti, is as it should be from such co ...

... m, 1 1 ^^11 THE LOST HUSBAND.-- Under this title a new operetta was produced at Devonshire House on Friday, and was repeated, for the benefit of the poor of Westminster, on Saturday. The libretto, f ...

... THE proverbial perils of a political play have been successfully encountered by the author of The Candidate, produced on Saturday last at the CRITERION. The Candidate is a free adapta tion of Le Déput ...

... B. WILLIAMS.-- Three songs, music by Ciro Pinsuti, will be acquisitions to the drawing-room répertoire; they are respectively: Allhallow E'en, words by Mary Mark Lemon, published in three keys, Little Love, and Trust and Be True. The words of the two latter are by G. Clifton Bingham.-- Years Ago is a pathetic song in a minor key, words by A. Valdemar, music by Henry R. Mark. --By E. ...

... 11. THIS month's Fortnightly is an unusually strong number. We have Sir John Lubbock on Liberal versus Conservative Finance, and Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Jesse Collings on subjects in which they are k ...

... Theatres Jj NOWADAYS the world is too busy and restless to indulge in a prolonged season of dsadness and dulness such as used to refresh the souls of jaded Londoners during the autumnal months. Except ...

... 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 ...