... 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 ...

... . THE third appearance of Mme. Adelina Patti on Saturday last attracted a brilliant gathering of the aristocracy and crowds of music lovers, representing all classes of society. The opera chosen for this occasion was Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the comic masterpiece of Rossini, and Mme. Patti, of course, represented the coquettish Rosina. How admirably she fills this attractive but far from easy ...

... GERMAN OPERA, COVENP GARDEN. RICHARD WAGNER'S second opera, Der Fliegende Holländer, was chosen for the sixth of the current series of German operatic performances at Covent Garden, and the cast was strengthened by the aid of a conspicuous ornament of the Royal Italian Opera Company-- Mme. Albani-- as Senta. Her impersonation of this character in Italian representations of The Flying Dutchman ...

... . So far as Miss Yaughan herself was conoerned, her benefit at the Prince's Theatre last week was a marked success. Her impersonation of Hypolita had all the spirit and charm that one associates in theory with such a heroine as Colley Cibber's. She wore Hypolita's sword with an air that went far to explain that daring damsel's success in her masculine disguise. She spoke her lines with ...

... . The Man Opposite, now played before Confusion at the Vaudeville, proves to be a merry trifle in which Mr. Howard Paul is seen to more advantage as adapter from the French than as actor. The little piece illustrates the progress and vicissi tudes of a flirtation between Mr. Fresco, ayoung artist occupying a garret, and Miss Florette, a pretty flower-maker who inhabits a similar abode over-the ...

... . THE chief situation of the romantic drama Through My Heart First is suggested in its title, and it is one which impresses its spectators at the Grand Theatre not less than it did those who welcomed the play in Edinburgh a few months ago. This situa tion is the outcome of a devoted wife's self sacrifice, when she saves her husband's life at the expense of her own. It comes so early in the ...

... 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 ...

... . The season of French plays began at the Gaiety on Monday with a fairly filled house, and a programme which was evi dently; found entertaining, though it boasted no novel feature. Niniche, by MM. Hennequin and Millaud, is known here not only through the medium of Boulogne, with Miss Farren in the ohief part, but in its original form as presented by Mme. Judic. Its plot, which deals with the ...

... . A DECIDED success was scored by Mrs. Edward Saker at her Globe matinée on Wednesday last-- a success to which her own performance contributed not a little. The play chosen for the occasion was a new one, Happy Go Lucky, by a Mr. Pemberton, who to the sense of humour shown in his Gentle Gertrude now proves that he adds perception of character and considerable skill in the conduct of a plot. ...

... . o adder stuff tnan The Sur ty- Burly or, Number Seven- Twenty- Eiyht, as adapted by Mr. Herman Hendriks from the German, has not been seen on the stage for some time. A farcical comedy which does not make one laugh has no right to exist and to laugh over the childish fun of The Surly-Burly was almost as difficult as to understand how it comes to pass that out of its German original a popular ...

... THE programme at the Avenue Theatre has been completely changed this week. Its more important and more successful feature is now Mr. James Mortimer's Gammon, an adaptation of MM. Labiche and Martin's capital comedy, La Poudre aux Yeux, which had, if we mistake not, a preliminary trial at a matinée some little time ago. Though Gammon begins better than it ends, it affords throughout an amusing ...