... . On Wednesday last Mr. Byron's comedy, Uncle, and his bur lesque, The Bohemian Gyurl, were both revived at the Gaiety, where they went with abundant spirit. In the former piece, which was originally produced in Dublin in 1878, Mr. Royce resumed his old part of Uncle Bootle, and in doing so proved that his art has lost very little from his recent illness. Mr. Terry was, of course, Bootle' s ...

... THE OPERA.-- The Carl Rosa rehearsals are practically ended and the English season at Drury Lane will commence on Easter Monday with the Bohemian Girl, Madame Georgina Burns and Mr. Maas playing the c ...

... . IT is a small tribute to say that the dramatic profession is one of the few branches of art in which human feeling is easily touched by suffering. Very seldom is an appeal made to the histrionic brotherhood without a practical response should the case be One of genuine necessity. The feeling of dependence is not so much a matter of thought amongst professional people, until sickness or ill ...

... MXJSIO. CARL ROSA OPERA. THE arrangements made by Mr. Carl Rosa for his ensuing season of opera at Drury Lane appear to have been carefully considered, and the prospectus is undoubtedly attractive. Having been favoured with some further particulars, we are enabled to announce the programme of the first half of the season, the latter half being at present open to such arrange ments as may be ...

... MESSRS. MARRIOTT AND WILLIAMS.-- One of the cleverest of the rising ballad writers of the day is Gerald B. Lane, from whom we have four remarkably good examples of that school, for which he has suppli ...

... IN A Real Queen (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus), Mr. R. E. Francillon has given his readers another of those highly idealised studies in fiction which are to real life what the imaginings of a poet who ...

... AUDIENCES at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre may be said to have confirmed the verdict of the Parisian public upon Le Maitre de Forges, for the applause which was bestowed upon the first perform ance of Mr. P ...

... . THE lamented death of the Duke of Albany has for a time put an almost complete stop to musical entertainments in London, but with the return of Easter we may expect a more than aver age supply. On Saturday next the Alhamhra Theatre re-modelled and re-decorated will be re-opened with Mr. Kingston's English adaption of Millbcker's successful German opera, Her Bcttel Student (The Beggar Student ...

... . Cbameb Co., 201, Regent-street, W. The following com positions, by James J. Monk, are published by Cramer Co., at their London address, and also at 35, Church -street, Liver pool: Home Recollections, 4s., words by S. Jones. The verses are of average merit. The melody in F minor, with a modulation into E flat major, is flowing and simple. Snow- flakes, 4s., words by J. L. Hill, who tells ...

... . MiraiTH A 8tudy by M. Leigh-Noel is the title of a little book published by Wyman and 8ons The writer In her preface nays In my sick-room the image of this wonderftil woman grew ana grew before my me tal vision, as the statue (trows under the sculptor's tool, until at last, I saw her-as I wall to present her to my rear I err The argument of the book is to prove that Shakespeare .n ,,,pro*fh ...

... Theatres A WILD and somewhat purposeless farce in four acts, adapted by Mr. Hawtrey from the German of Von Moser, under the title of The Private Secretary, was produced at the PRINCE'S Theatre on Satu ...

... MESSRS. HOWARD AND CO.-- A song of the olden times is The Crusader, words by Miss Alice O. Stevens; music by Frank N. Abernethy. This song will prove a welcome change from the ultra-sentimental love ...