... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.- Part 61, Vol. VIII., of the Organists Quarterly Journal begins the New Year well. Its contents are more than usually vigorous and varied; it opens with the second movem ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE.-- The Saturday Concerts were resumed on the 16th instant, and they will now be continued until April 26, when Mr. Manns will take his annual benefit. Last Saturday's programme included ...

... . IT is the custom to write concerning the Gaiety that one burlesque drama follows another and strongly resembles its predecessor; that this form of entertainment, popular though it proves, is fit only for the delectation of the semi-imbecile masher; and that at best such pieces as Camaralzaman; or, the Djên' a Wager only deserve the toleration of lofty contempt. For our own part we may ...

... . The Haunted Homes atul Family Traditions of Great Britain, by JonN H. Ingram. London: W. II. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W., 1884. WE certainly do not believe in ghosts, and should laugh to scorn the timorous man who had an objection to sleeping in a room that was said to be haunted. Personally we should prefer not to sleep, or attempt to sleep, in such a chamber. Not ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY.-- The season of opera given at Covent Garden by the company which has assumed this title, will come to an end this week, after a trial extending over one month. The experi ...

... THE little play entitled Comedy and Tragedy, which was produced on Saturday evening at the LYCEUM Theatre, has avowedly been written by Mr. Gilbert to enable Miss Anderson to bring to a practical test ...

... OF Mr. Burnand's burlesque dramas, which find so much favour with the patrons of the GAIETY, there is not much to be said that is not applicable to one and all. They are very fertile in droll absurdit ...

... SWEET MACE: A SUSSEX LEGEND OF THE IRON TIMES (3 vols.: Chapman and Flail) must be reckoned among Mr. G. Manville Fenn's very best novels. His thorough-going delight in romantic adventure finds ampl ...

... . Racecourse and Covert Side, by Alfred E. T. Watson, Author of Sketches in the Hunting Field. Illustrated by John Sturgess. London Bentley and Son, 8, New Burlington- street. W. IN reviewing ''Sketches in the Hunting Field some two or three years ago, we remarked that it was an awkward thing to notice a book written by one's editor. ''Why notice it, then?'' the cynic may inquire, and the ...