... 1 Hi THE RETORT OF THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE (Sampson Low and Co.) is always brimful of interest. Mr. Wilfrid Powell on New Guinea and the Western Pacific and Mr. Murray Smith on The Australas ...

... ALTHOUGH the production of Mr. H. A. Jones's Saints and Sinners at the VAUDEVILLE has occasioned some disappointment, there -are features in this work of one of the authors of The Silver King which af ...

... THE OPERA.-- Mr. Samuel Hayes has issued a preliminary prospectus for his six weeks' season of Italian opera, which will begin at Her Majesty's Theatre on November 4. The director announces that the o ...

... MESSRS. RICORDI.-- Unlinked, words and music by Michael Watson, is a song in every way worthy of its composer.-- Ask Me No More, by Alfred Tennyson and Paolo Tosti, is as it should be from such co ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE SURREY THEATRE. COHERENCE and consis tency are two things not to he looked for in a Surrey melodrama. If they were, they would certainly not be found in Sins of the City, a play in six acts and eight tableaux, by Paul Meritt and George Conquest. Their place is generally supplied by sensational incident, high intched. sentiments dragged in by the neck and shoulders, ...

... . JSita s I irst has found a new cradle at the Opera Comique, where with a rather unequal cast it is now played under tho management of Mr. Harrington Baily. Mr. T. G. Warren's farcical comedy is not one which, for our part, we should have thought worth reviving after it had run its day at the Novelty. Its fun is of a distinctly vulgar kind, and its employment of the the irrepressible biiby is ...

... . MR. HENRY A. JONES, author of the new play produced with moderate success at the Vaudeville, has, we observe, thought it advisable to publicly disclaim any intentional irreverence or offence to religious susceptibilities in Saints and Sinners. The disclaimer is, we venture to think, by no means unnecessary. Anything more like irreverence than the placing of Scriptural quotations in the mouth ...

... . The new play provided at the Surrey by Messrs. Meritt and Conquest turns upon a murder, and this murder is committed on Epsom Downs on the night after the Derby in Caractacus's year. The murderer is one Alfred Cooper, who has, unfortunately, backed the favourite in the great race, and has lost not only his own money, but a good deal that belongs to other people. The victim is Cooper's cousin ...

... RICIITER CONCERTS. MR. VERT, the indefatigable acting manager of the Richter Concerts, has favoured us with particulars of the approaching series of three concerts to be given at St. James's Hall, on Tuesdays, October 28th, November 4th, and November 11th, under the direction of Herr Hans Richter. The band will number 100 performers; the leader will again be Herr Schiever; the chorus director, ...

... Mr. H. A. JONES in his Lecture on the Modern Drama, recently delivered before the Playgoers' Club, confirms, indeed more than confirms, the complaints of the behaviour of first-night audiences. He r ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC?. CALLED BACK AND TOLLY. Polly, a comic opera by the late Mr. John Gay, poet, fabulist, and author of The Beggar's Opera, was refused a licence by the then Lord Chamber lain. Whereupon Mr. Gay's friends subscribed so handsomely towards its publication that the result to him was a profit of some twelve hundred pounds sterling. Had a like measure of severity been meted ...

... . IT is not often-- indeed, it is very seldom that a revival takes the house by storm as did that of The Sorcerer last Saturday night. It is no exaggeration to say that the success then scored by the delightfully-humorous and melodious work of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. Gilbert was infinitely greater than any which attended its original production at the Opera Comique on the 17th November, ...