... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The classical concert given last week at Covent Garden was specially interesting, the programme being composed entirely of selections from the works of British composers. The list of con certed and solo pieces is worth preserving. It comprised:-- No. 1. The Naiads overture by Sterndale Bennett; No. 2. A new Rhapsodie Symphonique by Hamilton Clarke; No. 3. Air, Sad ...

... . THE concert given last Saturday at the Crystal Palace was specially attractive, the programme being entirely occupied by Mr. Mackenzie's dramatic oratorio The Rose of Sharon, performed under the direction of the composer. Long before the com mencement of the concert every seat in the spacious concert-room had been secured, and many hundreds of applicants were unableto obtain admission-- a ...

... . A peefobmaxce of Adricunc Lccourrcur given at the Gaiety on Wednesday afternoon last had few noteworthy features. It was necessarily of the scratch order, and the stage management was only perfunctory. Miss Eweretta Lawrence, earnest and painstaking and intelligent as she is, scarcely realised the idea of the actress who has attained MUe. Lecouvreur's position. Her elocution is better than ...

... . Tiie farcical comedy Twins ib now preceded at the Olympic Theatre by Written in Sand, a comedietta from the pen of Mr. P. W. Broughton. If wo remember rightly, this little lever du riileau owes its plot to a three-act piece by the same author, called Light and Shade, which was produced some time ago at the Imperial. It is none the worse for this, since the main inoident of the story from ...

... . THE Promenade Concerts continue to attract large audiences nightly to Covent Garden Theatre, and on Saturday last 5,012 shilling visitors were admitted, in addition to the numbers by whom the balcony, dress circle, and boxes were thronged. At the preceding classical concert the attendance was almost equally large, and the most respectful attention was paid to the splendid Midsummer Night's ...

... . WE recently gave a full account of the plot of the grand opera Sigurd, written by MM. Du Locle and Blau, and composed by M Ernest Reyer, since the death of Berlioz musical critic of Le Journal des Débate, Paris. We have now to chronicle the successful production, on Tuesday last, of the Italian adaptation written by Signor Mazzucato, one of the most distinguished of modern Italian literati. ...

... . THE appearance of Mme. Sembrich as Queen Margherita, in the recent performance of Les Huguenots, added greatly to the attractiveness of that opera, and drew a large audience. How brilliantly she sang the florid passages of which the part of Margherita chiefly consists, it is hardly necessary to say, nor would it be generous to compare so gifted a vocalist with the two debutantes who had ...

... . Indi in Game from Quail to Tiger Shooting. By Wm. Riots, Major-General, Retired LiBt, Indian Army. London: W. H. Allen and Co. IT is nearly thirty years since the author established his reputa tion as a sportsman who could write well of sport. His book, Tiger Shooting in India, may still he read with interest and advantage. The present volume, with its wide range of subjects, its ...

... . WHY anybody should trouble to place on the stage such aimless rubbish as Not a Word, we cannot profess to understand. One good object Mr. Lee Balmaine may indeed serve by his production: he provides a shocking example to warn writers and adapters of French farcical comedy against the result of excessive indulgence in panto mimic episodes. But as this self sacrifice in the cause of art ...

... . Sheridan's Comedies The School for Scandal and The Rivals. With Engravings and an Introduction hy Mr. W. Bhander Matthews. London Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, W. 1RS4-. THIS is an exceedingly handsome book, beautifully printed on rich paper; we do not, indeed, fancy that Sheridan has ever before been so worthily attired. About the comedies themselves, what can be said at this time of day? ...

... MUSIC. ITALIAN OPERA IN AMERICA. FOR some few years past there has been a cry-- stimulated specially by the German musicians who are so good as to reside amongst us, and to dictate to us what, in a musical sense, we should ''eat, drink, and avoid-- that ''Italian opera is on its last legs, and that the absurdity of representing in the Italian language operas written by German, French, and ...

... . WITH the performance of Linda di Chamounix, to be given to night, the Royal Italian Opera season of 1884 will close; and in accordance with our yearly custom, we take this opportunity to review the history of the musical campaign which has been carried on at Covent Garden since April 26th. So far as the interests of art are concerned, little has been done in the way of additions to the ...