... MESSRS. S. SPRAGUE AND Co.-- A clever and well-written song of medium compass is Who Can Say? written and com posed by Edward Oxenford and J. H. Gower, Mus. Doc., Oxon.-- Waiting at the Gate is a ...

... jYiusic) 1 GERMAN OPERA SEASON.-- Opera in German had not been heard for several years until in 1882 Herr Franke revived at Drury Lane this once popular form of entertainment. The enterprise was then ...

... CUB, CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE shortness of the step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous must have struck every man, woman, or child who has either been guilty of tight boots, too slight a waist, or too much toffy. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous with Mr. Augustus Harris there is but one step (notwithstanding the fact that the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, boasts three or four from the house to ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. UP to a recent date the directors of the Royal Italian Opera have continued to exhibit unslackened energy in the addition of fresh works to the repertory of the season, and have added to it the Romeo e Giulietta of Gounod, L' Africaine (Meyerbeer), and Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), making a total of thirteen operas in the space of five weeks. We cannot expect this ...

... OMNIA VANITAS: A TALE OF SOCIETY (1 vol.: Hurst and Blackett), is a sermon against certain phases of society, without any attempt at cynicism or satire, and preached by no means badly. The story is ...

... DRAMA. DRURY LANS. THOUGH it seems putting a national theatre to a very strange use to hand it over to a troupe of nigger minstrels, it must be admitted that Haverly's American-European Mastodons appear likely to be quite as popular at Drury Lane for the next few weeks as though they were white-faced interpreters of Harrisian melodrama. The amusement-seeker who patronises the Masto dons' ...