... . Fourteen Pays was produced at the Criterion in 18S2, and is by no means forgotten. It is a brightly- written and cleverly- purified version of one of MM. Gondinet and Bisson's dashing, reckless three-act farces, not too probable or rational in the conduct of its plot, and with one of the most impudent central situations which it has ever entered into the mind of a play wright to elaborate. ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. BALFE'S Satanella, originally written for Miss Louisa Pyne, and produced at Covent Garden, December 20, 1858, had a long career of success, and the soprano song, The Power of Love, became widely popular. The tenor song, ''The Glorious Vintage of Champagne, was one of the late Mr. W. Harrison's greatest triumphs, and other portions of the score afforded scope for ...

... OUR, CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A LIFE on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep, eau scarcely be applied to the gentlemen who frequent the good ship hearing the initials of the Queen's titles and riding at anchor under the prismatic title of the Rainbow, off the Thames Embankment, near to Waterleo Bridge. On occa sions, however, when the members of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers make ...

... . MESSRS. WEATHERBY give notice that the 'Forfeit List' of 1882, 83, and 84, will be published on or about December 13th, and will comprise:-- 1st, Forfeits and entrance fees where the stakes are payable to us; 2nd, Forfeits due in other places to gentlemen whose stake accounts are kept at this office; 3rd, Other forfeits and entrances due at established race meetings, of which notice is sent ...

... . Princess Ida has been so long before the public, to whom the witty libretto of Mr. W. S. Gilbert and the delightful music of Six* Arthur Sullivan are now familiar, that little remains to be said respecting its merits. It must, however, be readily acknow ledged that the opera bears the test of time, and that its attractions appear to be just as fresh now as when it was first introduced to the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ON STATUARY AT THE LYCEUM. pygmalion and Galatea. A mythological, yes, a decidedly mythological comedy in three acts. The scene is laid, as I am informed per programme-- happily gratis --in Athens; hut it is an Athens evolved by the author out of his inner consciousness. Indeed I gather as the play progresses some curious facts as regards the details of Athenian life, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE BOLD MATINEER. A Tale. THE Stoke-Newingtons were a very decent and respectable, kind suburban people--indeed, one might go further and say that there was some quality about them. They kept a boy in buttons, and a brougham. Stoke-Newington was plain Stoke until he married his charming and accomplished wife; then the acquisition of a little property caused the addition ...

... . WITH many a verbal jest and practical joke, with neatly- written lines and boldly-planned comic business, Mr. William Yardley has striven to make fun of Called Back, as played at the Prince's Theatre. Up to a certain point he has succeeded, and The Scalded Back; or, Comin' Scars aroused a good deal of laughter on its production at the Novelty Theatre the other night. But it cannot in ...

... OUR, CAPTIOUS CRITIO. AN AMMONIAPHONE CONCERT. WHEN I received an invitation to attend Miss Carlingford's Ammo niaphone concert at St. James's Hall, I allowed my imagination to run away with me. I knew generally that the Am moniaphone, ochone! was the invention of Dr. Carter Moffat, and that its object was the pro duction of that pure Italian air held to be conducive to perfect vocalisation. ...

... . MR. AND MRS. BANCROFT'S farewell season at the Haymarket has begun as successfully as could have been wished, except perhaps by those who would have preferred a new play to an old one. If ever the revival of a seven-year-old success was worth attempting, it was in the case of Messrs. Scott and Stephenson's Diplomacy, well remembered by those who made its acquaintance at the Prince of Wales's ...

... . Just in Time, the new piece with which the Avenue Theatre re-opened on Wednesday night, is, so far as the programme shows, an original as well as a new drama from the pen of Mr. Burnand. If, however, we were to guess its source from its nature we should assume it to be an old Ambigu melodrama with its chief comic part written up for Mr. J. S. Clarke. Its scene is laid in France at the ...

... . IT becomes monotonous to chronicle, week after week, the presence of large audiences at the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts, yet it is a fact worthy of notice that these concerts have never before been so successful as under the management of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas-- a fact attributable to the enter prising spirit displayed by that gentleman. He has not only engaged a band greatly superior ...