... THE dramatic event of next week will, of course, be the produc tion on Thursday of Lord Lytton's posthumous play Junius; or, the Household Gods, at the PRINCESS'S, with Mr. Wilson Barrett in the chara ...

... EASTER has this year been a busy time with the London theatres. Most conspicuous among the novelties is Mr. G. R. Sims's domestic drama at the ADELPHI, brought out on Saturday evening under the title ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- One of the most attrac tive novelties of the musical season is A Patriotic Hymn from the Bohemian poem, The Heirs of the White Mountain, written by Vitêslav Halek, ...

... Hum. r'v W-1-?;-- 7 ,Mo fr1. E eipht son ...

... THE great success which has attended Mr. Hawtrey's adaptation of Herr von Moser's comedy of Der Bibliothekar, now, under the title of The Private Secretary, verging upon its five hundredth per- forman ...

... if 1 1 The Opera. Mdlle. Fohström made her regular début last Thursday in Lucia di Lammermoor. The young artist had had no full rehearsal, although she had at very short notice sung the titular part o ...

... Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey. For the first time, it is believed, since 1834 a Handel Festival Com- memoration was on Tuesday evening held in Westminster Abbey. Few men now living can rec ...

... TRAJAN: The History of a Sentimental Young Man, with Some Episodes in the Comedy of Many Lives' Errors, by Henry F. Keenan (1 vol.: Cassell and Co)., is the first work of fiction that has dealt comp ...

... LIL LORIMER (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) is altogether a stronger and more satisfactory novel than Theo Gift is in the habit of writing. The life of the three delightfully bright and lively English gi ...

... LADY LOVELACE, by C. L. Pirkis (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus), is the sobriquet given to a certain Ellinor Yorke, a ady who devotes herself to the work of breaking men's hearts and robbing other girls ...

... A GLANCE AHEAD.-- We last week passed in rapid review the music of the past year. The outlook is somewhat more cheering. Until February, it is true, music will be represented in London solely by the B ...

... MESSRS. DUNCAN DAVISON AND CO.-- Of three songs by H. C. Hiller, for which he has written both words and music, Three Ages is the most original, and will certainly be the most lasting of the group. ...