... 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 ...

... MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE'S A Beggar on Horseback (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett) is so clever, that the general vulgarity of its tone, and even of its style, is the more regrettable. Nor does the clevern ...

... MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT is the latest American enter prise that has been exploited in London. The first time I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Lawrence Barrett was under peculiar circumstances. Early morning upon the river Hudson revealed the weather-beaten hull of the stemship Britannia, and round about her the busy tug-boats, with the well-known name of J. L. Starin fluttering on their flags; ...

... THE OPERA.-- The prospectus of the Royal Italian Opera was issued on Wednesday, but the chief details have already been announced. It will, therefore, suffice to say that the principal artists are Mes ...

... THOUGH Easter has been heralded by dull times, the holiday season is by no means barren of theatrical novelties; on the con trary, this Easter presents a spectacle of very active rivalry among manager ...

... The War Game. --A correspondent writes: I have just seen your account of the war game in yours of the 8th ult., giving the credit of the invention to Prussia about sixty years since. I had been readi ...

... MR LAWRENCE BARRETT, the American star who rises as Miss Anderson temporarily sets, did not long escape the attentions of the interviewer, whom English journalism seems to have borrowed from the United States. We have read accordingly how in private life this actor is seen to have good head, a face rough-hewn, with dark hair, and deep-sunk eyes. What is more to the point than those these ...