... . 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 ...

... . 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. ...

... . FOLLOWING the lines of a French journalistic example, that astute illustrated daily, the Pall Mall Gazette, is giving its readers the advantage of play-makers' opinions upon how to make plays. They are highly diverting and amusing, and it is to be hoped that, before the series concludes, some of the blood curdling authors may be requisitioned, and that some light may be thrown upon how those ...

... . Nineteen Centuries of Brink in England. A History. By Richabd Valpy Fbbnch, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., Rector of Llanmartin and Rural Dean. Author of The History of Toasting, &c. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1884. THE reader is apt to take up this book, if readers who merely glance at the title show any aptness for taking it up at all, with the suspicion that it is one of those denunciatory ...

... THE season of French performances commenced on Monday evening, at the GAIETY Theatre, which has been brilliantly redecorated during the brief period that has elapsed since the house was closed for tha ...

... . The Great Divorce Case has during the week been preceded at the Criterion by a pretty little lever du rideau, in the shape of Blanche's Somebody Else, wherein the cross-purposes of some Alsatian peasants in their love affairs are handled with grace and skill. Its heroine, Minnie, very brightly played by Miss KateRorke, is engaged to her worthy but rather slow- witted cousin, Hans Moritz, ...