... MRS. OLIPHANT, in The Wizard's Son (3 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), deals with mysteries-- not merely with the supernatural in the shape of a family ghost, but with such profounder mysteries as those o ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- To singers of cultivated taste Four Trios for Female Voices, with accompaniments of two horns and a harp, by J. Brahms, will prove very attractive; they are collecte ...

... . Two additions have recently been made to the repertory of the current season of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden. In Meyerbeer's Dinorah, Mme. Adelina Patti, as the heroine of that delightful work, repeated an impersonation which has never been surpassed. Her acting was from first to last full of genuine dramatic impulse, and whenever she was on the stage the audience had cause for ...

... . THE first season of this new society closed a few days back. It commenced with a discourse by Mr. F. Praeger on his Per sonal Recollections of Richard Wagner. This was followed by Mr. Moncure Conway's views on The Supernaturalism of Art, and at the concluding meeting Miss Alma Murray gave dramatic readings from the works of Shakespeare and Wagner. A season which can boast of no greater ...

... . Foe the last week of his season Mr. Toole revived Stage Dora, with the happiest results. It is a perfect joke of its kind, and makes all the comic capital that is to be made either out of Fedora or it best-known exponents. Miss M. Linden's im personation of the frantic heroine bears a far nearer relationship to that of Mme. Bernhardt than to Mrs. Bernard-Beere's the intensity of purpose, the ...

... . There were several interesting features in the performance of She Stoops to Conquer given at the Strand Theatre on Tuesday afternoon by Miss Lucy Buckstone. In the first place, Miss Buckstone herself made a pleasant Kate Hard- castle, though her simulation of barmaiden ways was not particularly sprightly. Her brother, Mr. Rowland Buckstone, who inherits many of the characteristic tones of ...

... . THERE were several good points in Mr. Poel's version of A Foregone Conclusion, and its production at an Olympic matinée last week met with more real success than is generally secured by such amateurish efforts. But before Priest and Painter could be turned into a serviceable drama it would have to be overhauled and cut down by a really practical man who had very little regard for the ...

... . Two operas have recently been added to the repertory of the current German opera season at Covent Garden; Beethoven's Fidelio, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, two works as widely as possible dissimilar. The former was on the whole well per formed especially delightful being the execution of the splendid No. 3 Leonora overture. This was properly placed by Herr Hans Richter as a prelude to ...

... . Mr. William Shakespeare1 s Tragedic of Hamlet, Prince of Pen- mark. Published according to the true original copies. Lon don Simpkin, Marshall Co. THIS is a reprint of the First Folio, published in 1623. The publishers believe it will be refreshing to turn from the many learned commentators who have altered and distorted the text, to the authentic version; in which belief they are, doubtless ...

... . lif thr Watcms of thi NionT.-- This is the title of a series of poem-, by Mr*. Homie Dbe'l, to be com^letai in eighteen volumes, 0 which th-) second has now be indued by Messrs. tt- mmgt n. Some forty sketches ami song 4, hardly entitled to be dignified with the narre o i.>erns, although they often sho**' true p*>e ical instinot, orm ti c second volume, which w 11 *ell repiy pe>ue* ...

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... THE GERMAN OPERA.-- Although the first performance of Dr. Stanford's new opera, Savonarola, was announced at Covent Garden as late as last Friday afternoon, it was ultimately withdrawn, and on Friday ...