... MR. T. WHITAKER, ex-Mayor of Scarborough, was sent out to lecture by the Preston teetotallers, being at the time a raw Lancashire lad, with his entire baggage tied up in a handkerchief. His first atte ...

... B. WILLIAMS.-- Three songs, music by Ciro Pinsuti, will be acquisitions to the drawing-room répertoire; they are respectively: Allhallow E'en, words by Mary Mark Lemon, published in three keys, Little Love, and Trust and Be True. The words of the two latter are by G. Clifton Bingham.-- Years Ago is a pathetic song in a minor key, words by A. Valdemar, music by Henry R. Mark. --By E. ...

... . M. MAYER has been wise as well as fortunate in keeping exactly to the programme which he had laid down for his enter prising series of French productions and revivals at the Royalty. The variety which had been promised has been forthcoming, and although, of course, the company has been less suited to some of its tasks than to others, it has on the whole maintained a high standard of ...

... MUSIO. DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the publication of our latest article on Music there has been an abundance of musical entertainments in the metropolis, some of which claim a record in these columns. Covent Garden Promenade Concerts. These popular en tertainments finally closed last Saturday week with an extra special grand concert, at which Mmes. Nilsson and Trebelli, MM. ...

... MUSIC!. MUSICAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR. Now that the year 1884 is about to expire, a brief retrospect of the chief musical events of the past twelve months may prove acceptable to our subscribers. January is generally a dull month for musicians, and panto mime usually monopolises public patronage but in J anuary last musical attractions were provided at Covent Garden and the Savoy Theatres. At the ...

... Adventures amongst the Tribes, and Travels in Egypt in 1881 and 1882. By Dr. Josiah Williams, E.R.G.S: Illustrated. Remington and Co., publishers, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. 1884. IT is natural that Dr. Williams, who travelled through a little- known country, which has since become a centre of interest, should have written a book. To some extent the value, at any rate the freshness, of ...

... IT is now understood that Mrs. Langtry's season at the Prince's Theatre, commencing early .in January next, will open with an adaptation by Mr. B. C. Stephenson of M. Alexandre Dumas, the younger's, c ...

... MESSRS. W. MORLEY AND Co.-- Our collection from this firm is of more than ordinary merit, especially the vocal por tion. The Will and the Way, written and composed by Harold Wynn and Louis Diehl, is ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE.-- The last of the Orchestral Concerts of the present year was given at the Crystal Palace on Saturday. To-day, Gounod's Redemption will be performed, under the direction of Mr. Manns, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. GO AS YOU PLEASE. OH, Liberty, exclaimed Madame Roland as she as cended the scaf fold, what crimes are committed in thy name! Oh, Sport, I am tempted to para phrase, what ab surdities are per petrated under thy auspices! I write these re marks with the remembrance of what someone, with either a limited knowledge of the English language or a pleasant facility of ...

... . REPORTS have been circulated to the effect that Mr. Abbey has secured the lease of the Haymarket from Mr. Bancroft, and that Mr. Henderson has arranged to give up possession of the Comedy to Miss Lila Clay. Neither of these rumours, it seems, has any secure foundation, but we shall be surprised if after all it does not turn out that a big bid for the Haymarket has been made on behalf of Miss ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CANDIDATE, AT THE CRITERION THEATRE. WISHING you one and all a merry Christmas, I will make the festive season my excuse for the remark that The Candidate is very like a Christmas plum-pudding. It is rich it is full flavoured it is hot, it is season able, and on reflec tion it is rather indigestible. It is stuffed full of good things from all manner of sources, and ...