... . 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 ...

... . Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners. By M. HORACE HAYES, M.R.C.V.S., late Captain the Buffs. Author of Riding: On the Flat and Across Country. Third Edition. Revised and enlarged. London: W. Thacker and Co., 87, Newgate street. 1884. Foil some time past Captain Hayes's book has been accepted as a standard work, and the careful revision and enlargement it has undergone add still more to its ...

... . Princess Ida has been so long before the public, to whom the witty libretto of Mr. W. S. Gilbert and the delightful music of Six* Arthur Sullivan are now familiar, that little remains to be said respecting its merits. It must, however, be readily acknow ledged that the opera bears the test of time, and that its attractions appear to be just as fresh now as when it was first introduced to the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ON STATUARY AT THE LYCEUM. pygmalion and Galatea. A mythological, yes, a decidedly mythological comedy in three acts. The scene is laid, as I am informed per programme-- happily gratis --in Athens; hut it is an Athens evolved by the author out of his inner consciousness. Indeed I gather as the play progresses some curious facts as regards the details of Athenian life, ...

... . IT becomes monotonous to chronicle, week after week, the presence of large audiences at the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts, yet it is a fact worthy of notice that these concerts have never before been so successful as under the management of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas-- a fact attributable to the enter prising spirit displayed by that gentleman. He has not only engaged a band greatly superior ...

... 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 ...

... . DUNCAN, DAVISON, AND Co., 244, Regent-street.-- Sombre Forêt, 3s. A well-engraved edition of the soprano air in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, with both French and Italian words. --In questo semplice, 3s. An equally excellent edition of the famous mezzo -soprano cavatina from Donizetti's Betby.-- Nonti lagnar, 3s., canzonetta, by G. Romano (op. 161). A graceful melody, suitable for ordinary ...

... . ON the first night a good many people seem to have been not a little puzzled to know what to make of the story of Mr. James Willing's new drama Daybreak. In its prologue we are introduced to the familiar situation which springs out of the rivalry of a good young man and a bad young man for the hand of a lovable but not too discriminating damsel. In this instance, as in many another, the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WITH THE TRICYCLISTS AT BRIGHTON. THE sun, veiled from mortal eyes by a thick mass of drifting cloud, was some hours past its zenith, when two mounted cavaliers were to be seen cautiously descending a steep slope of the principal highway leading to the pleasant watering-place of Brightelmstone. The foremost was a seigneur of grave and portly presence, with a full lip, a ...

... 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 ...

... Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co.- --Two very pretty songs, music by Ciro Pinsuti, are respectively My Nellie, a tender love ditty, words by Rea, and Estelle, a narrative song of medium compass, words b ...