... Theatres Jj NOWADAYS the world is too busy and restless to indulge in a prolonged season of dsadness and dulness such as used to refresh the souls of jaded Londoners during the autumnal months. Except ...

... . A crowded audience was attracted to the Comedy Theatre on Saturday last, when Mr. H. B. Farnie's excellent English adaptation of Chassaigno's oomic opera, Falka, was performed by a new combination of artists engaged by Mr. Alexander Henderson for a long provincial tour with that popular opera. The cast was a sfrong one, and the opera went well from beginning to end. Miss Wadman, both as ...

... . UPON light, bright pieces, such as do not ask too much of the attention of their spectators, Mr. Brookfield is wisely concentra ting his attention at the Haymarket. His latest production be longs in many of its characteristics to farce rather than to comedy, for its dramatis persona are overdrawn and highly- coloured, whilst its plot makes no pretence of probability. For Bachelors, as the ...

... k w.pV.JTTTTTk eKuSIC) r I v V0 FESTIVAL NOTES.-- --The orchestral rehearsals for the Three Choirs Festival to be held at Worcester next week began at St. Andrew's Hall, London, on Thursday morning, ...

... MESSRS. WOOD AND CO.-- Two pleasing ballads for the drawing-room are With the Tide, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Arthur E. Dyer compass D below the lines to E, fourth space-- and ...

... . After his brief summer holiday Mr. WilEon Barrett haB re opened the PrinoeEs's Theatre with what muBt from all points of view be regarded as a decidedly heavy programme. This in cludes the tragic Chatterton as well as the profoundly melodrama tic Claudian, so that the actor has not only to suffer the pangs of death by tho direct wrath of heaven, but the slower torture produced by the action ...

... . A PEEP at the burlesque Little Lohengrin during its perform ance at the Gaiety, last Saturday afternoon, showed that the company headed by the Coote family was worthy of a happier fate than that which recently overtook it at the luckless Holborn Theatre. The burlesque itself, which is by a Mr. Fred. Bowyer, is poor stuff, dull in action, and stupid in dialogue-- a long way inferior in ...

... . Tiie farcical comedy Twins ib now preceded at the Olympic Theatre by Written in Sand, a comedietta from the pen of Mr. P. W. Broughton. If wo remember rightly, this little lever du riileau owes its plot to a three-act piece by the same author, called Light and Shade, which was produced some time ago at the Imperial. It is none the worse for this, since the main inoident of the story from ...

... . THE Promenade Concerts continue to attract large audiences nightly to Covent Garden Theatre, and on Saturday last 5,012 shilling visitors were admitted, in addition to the numbers by whom the balcony, dress circle, and boxes were thronged. At the preceding classical concert the attendance was almost equally large, and the most respectful attention was paid to the splendid Midsummer Night's ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MILITARY ATHLETICS AT ALDERSHOT. IT was the Forester's Fête day. The lineal descendants of Adam Bell, Clynn o' the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, and the titular successors of Robin Hood, Little John, and Will Scarlett, were bound for the woodland glades of Sydenham, there to sound the cheerful horn amidst the rhododen dron groves, to proclaim the hunt is up on the ...

... 1. THE Fortnighlly's opening article is An Antidote to Agitation, by Lord Randolph S. Churchill. His lordship energetically repeats the arguments used to induce the Government to bring forward a Red ...