... . DUFF AND STEWART, 2, Hanover-street, W.--Mariette, 4s., by L. Gautier: a suite de valses, tuneful, easy, and about as original as most waltzes recently composed.--A Dream of the Future, 4s; words by H. Jaxone, music by A. Briscoe. The words of this song are better than Mr Jaxone (?Jackson) usually writes, although the last verse is barely intelligible. It is not his fault that the ...

... . Modem Horsemanship. A New Method of Teaching Riding and Training by means of Pictures from Life. By EDWARD L. ANDERSON, author of How to Ride, A System of School Training, The Gallop, &c. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. There is something novel and out of the way about the- appearance of this book, with its light buff covers, on the first of which are a couple of instantaneous ...

... . A crowded audience was attracted to the Comedy Theatre on Saturday last, when Mr. H. B. Farnie's excellent English adaptation of Chassaigno's oomic opera, Falka, was performed by a new combination of artists engaged by Mr. Alexander Henderson for a long provincial tour with that popular opera. The cast was a sfrong one, and the opera went well from beginning to end. Miss Wadman, both as ...

... . THERE is something historically grand in the way the un daunted Bruce has withstood the many rebuffs of a fickle public and a somewhat hard-hearted, if soft-headed, Board of Works. No sooner is he shut out of utilising the little theatre in Tottenham- street, known since the triumphs of Robertson and the Bancrofts as the Prince of Wales's, and for which he has to pay the (to him) barely ...

... DRAM. A. (Continued from page 599 J MR. OWEN DOVE. MR. OWEN DOVE was born in London in 1844, and was educated at King's College. For a great many years he travelled abroad, generally corresponding with some newspaper and he appears to have visited nearly every civilised portion of the Eastern hemisphere. His first appearance on the stage was in 1881, when he was engaged by Mr. Wyndham to play ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE SURREY THEATRE. COHERENCE and consis tency are two things not to he looked for in a Surrey melodrama. If they were, they would certainly not be found in Sins of the City, a play in six acts and eight tableaux, by Paul Meritt and George Conquest. Their place is generally supplied by sensational incident, high intched. sentiments dragged in by the neck and shoulders, ...

... . Two additions have recently been made to the repertory of the current season of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden. In Meyerbeer's Dinorah, Mme. Adelina Patti, as the heroine of that delightful work, repeated an impersonation which has never been surpassed. Her acting was from first to last full of genuine dramatic impulse, and whenever she was on the stage the audience had cause for ...

... . JSita s I irst has found a new cradle at the Opera Comique, where with a rather unequal cast it is now played under tho management of Mr. Harrington Baily. Mr. T. G. Warren's farcical comedy is not one which, for our part, we should have thought worth reviving after it had run its day at the Novelty. Its fun is of a distinctly vulgar kind, and its employment of the the irrepressible biiby is ...

... .- --An account of travel and sport, chiefly in the Base country Being Personal Experiences and Adventures during throe winters' sport in the Soudan. By E. L. James, M.A., F.R.G.S. AVith Maps, Etchings, and Illustrations. London John Murray, Albemarle- street, 1884. MR. JAMES'S straightforward and unaffected hook would he welcome at any time, but is particularly so now, seeing that it treats ...

... . THE third appearance of Mme. Adelina Patti on Saturday last attracted a brilliant gathering of the aristocracy and crowds of music lovers, representing all classes of society. The opera chosen for this occasion was Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the comic masterpiece of Rossini, and Mme. Patti, of course, represented the coquettish Rosina. How admirably she fills this attractive but far from easy ...

... GERMAN OPERA, COVENP GARDEN. RICHARD WAGNER'S second opera, Der Fliegende Holländer, was chosen for the sixth of the current series of German operatic performances at Covent Garden, and the cast was strengthened by the aid of a conspicuous ornament of the Royal Italian Opera Company-- Mme. Albani-- as Senta. Her impersonation of this character in Italian representations of The Flying Dutchman ...

... . THE exclamation O most frequently to the English ear-- I mean the uncultured one that does not travel much-- is generally found in the forefront of a remark. O my prophetic soul, my uncle! as Hamlet says in the original English. We have not. lately had the opportunity of seeing Signor Salvini play the Prince of Denmark in Italian, so to the ear referred to it would he a peculiar point ...