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... UNHAPPILY few traces of the original vein of humour and vivacity which Mr. Burnand has at command on occasion are discoverable in his new romantic drama at the AVENUE Theatre. Just in Time is a melodr ...

... m, 1 1 ^^11 THE LOST HUSBAND.-- Under this title a new operetta was produced at Devonshire House on Friday, and was repeated, for the benefit of the poor of Westminster, on Saturday. The libretto, f ...

... THE proverbial perils of a political play have been successfully encountered by the author of The Candidate, produced on Saturday last at the CRITERION. The Candidate is a free adapta tion of Le Déput ...

... . The Grand Mogul, an Oriental féerie in three acts, libretto by Mr. H. B. Farnie, music by Audran, was produced last Monday at the Comedy Theatre, and met with a suecès d'estime at the hands of a friendly audience composed entirely of invited guests. It will be seen from the following account of the plot that The Grand Mogul closely resembles The, Snake Charmer, written by MM. Chivot and Duru ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JUST IN TIME. JUST IN TIME. So I was, I regret to say. Otherwise I should have been spared the infliction of sitting out the drama produced under that title at the Avenue Theatre. Lest any of my readers should possibly he lured 1 into being just in time as well orders are not admitted after eight I hasten to put my impressions on record. The drama is divided into a ...

... PARSIFAL. CONSIDERABLE surprise was felt when the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society announced for the opening performance of their fourteenth season a concert recital of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. It was known in musical circles that the able conductor of the society, Mr. Barnby, had attended all the performances of Par sifal given not long since at Bayreuth, and it was admitted that few ...

... CO VENT GARDEN CONCERTS. MR. W. FREEMAN THOMAS'S concert season at Covent Garden will close this evening with a Grand Special Concert, for which Mmes. Christine Nilsson and Trebelli, Mr. Maas, Mr. Carrodus, and Signor Foli are engaged. The annual benefit concert of the enterprising lessee took place on Monday last, and attracted an enormous audience. Early in the evening a deputation repre ...

... . Le Députe de Bombignae, by M. Bisson was, be believe, voted frivolous and thin when it was produced at the Theatre Francais a few months ago. Frivolity is also certainly to be found in the version of the comedy given at the Criterion as The Candi date hut it is not likely to be accounted a fault by the play goers visiting this theatre. Rather does the light-hearted merriment of the piece ...

... . Trieoehe el Cacolet, well remembered by London playgoers as one of the most amusing of farcical comedies, has been tho revival of the week at the Royalty. Its renewed popularity leaves little room for doubt concerning the wisdom of including the piece in the present series. It goes with one long scream of laughter from beginning to end and the end, it must be con fessed, is very long ...

... ||n-.E -REAbElgll TO most people Peg Woffington is known as the heroine of one of Charles Reade's most widely-read works. Mr. FitzGerald Molloy, however, in The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington ...

... II. YOUNG people nowadays find the path of learning considerably smoothed by the numerous books conveying information in popular and condensed form. Surely a schoolboy who deems Latin ...