... jVovelk! WE learn that An Old Man's Love (2 vols.: Blackwood and Sons) is the very last novel that will appear from the pen of Anthony Trollope. Regret on that score has been so often expressed, tha ...

... a V a v 11 ulSWdtoTO MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.-- A group of pretty and useful songs for the home circle are: Primroses and Violets, words and music by G. F. Blackbourne, of medium compass, suitable for ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Mr. A. C. Mackenzie has returned to London from Darmstadt to assist at the rehearsals, at Covent Garden, of Colombo, which will be the first novelty produced. Mr. Gye has hither ...

... T HEATRES WHEN Messrs. Jones and Herman's romantic drama, The Silver King, was produced at the PRINCESS'S, it was rather rashly pro phesied that the days of old-fashioned melodrama, with its perpetual ...

... meATLES IN converting Mr. Hugh Conway's popular novelette into a play, the author and his collaborator, Mr. Comyns Carr, have achieved a difficult task with remarkable success. Called Back was produce ...

... mA jyxr djt mcU) n HENRY NIGHTINGALE; OR, LORD OF HIMSELF, by John Walter Sherer (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is easily dismissed so far as its faults are concerned. It is too long: it has far too m ...

... .- --An account of travel and sport, chiefly in the Base country Being Personal Experiences and Adventures during throe winters' sport in the Soudan. By E. L. James, M.A., F.R.G.S. AVith Maps, Etchings, and Illustrations. London John Murray, Albemarle- street, 1884. MR. JAMES'S straightforward and unaffected hook would he welcome at any time, but is particularly so now, seeing that it treats ...

... . Wa believe it to be the intention of the directors of the Royal Italian Opera Company to confine their concert opera tions almost exclusively to the handsome Floral Hall during the current season, which opened last Saturday with an attractive programme. Unfortunately, three of the leading artists, Mmes. .Lucca, Durand, and Latemer, were too unwell to sing. The disappointment thus caused was ...

... CUB, CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ON the opening of the Empire Theatre I happened to bo away from London, and, therefore, missed the first night of the gorgeous production of Chilperic. I had, however, the privilege of reading accounts of it in the London papers. One daily organ somewhat amused me by the wholesale slaughter of Hervé. The critic took vast pains to point out that the composer of the opera ...

... . I DO not think that this is the first time I have mentioned a personal regard for Brighton --or if it is it certainly must be neglect occurring from the fact that my affection was too deep to tell. This I am certain of, I have more than once, when wandering about Brighton, informed my readers of the fact. At Brighton I have fought (on the Downs with the Volunteers). At Brighton I have loved ...

... . THE rentrée of Mme. Albani at Covent Garden last Saturday night attracted a very large and brilliant audience, by whom the popular prima donna was received with an enthusiasm which had about it an affectionate character. Mme. Albani is not only a great artist, but is socially an ornament of her pro fession, and is esteemed as much as she is admired. We must confess that to our minds there is ...

... . A feefoemance of the well-known and faulty English ver sion of II Trovatore, at Drury Lane, on Saturday last, brought to a close the brief, but successful, season of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. On this occasion for the first and only time during the season Mr. Carl Rosa took his place at the con ductor's desk, and was greeted with hearty and prolonged cheers from all parts of the densely ...