... 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 ...

... HAYMAREET THEATRE. IT is rather a scrappy programme that Mr. and Mrs. .Ban croft have put forward for the last few weeks of their manage ment of the Haymarket, and there is certainly no lack of variety in an entertainment which includes Shakespearian comedy-- as adapted by Garrick-- Gilbertian romance, and Buckstonian farce. The result is not wholly satisfactory, nor does it fully sustain the ...

... . ON Saturday last the Carl Rosa Opera season, at Drury Lane, closed with an excellent performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, which had not been repeated since its production in September, 1875, on the opening night of Mr. Rosa's first season in London. The cast on that occasion was remarkably strong, and so great was the success of Mozart's comic masterpiece, that it was repeated several ...

... MESSRS. HOPWOOD AND CREW.-- A simple and pleasing ballad, written and composed by G. Hubi Newcombe, is Ever Faithful; the composer has also arranged this pretty melody as a waltz; in either form it ...

... THE author of that exceedingly clever political satire, Pericles B um, Austen Pember, has in Victa Victrix: or a Shrug, a Ham, and a Ha! (3 vols.: J. and R. Maxwell), shown himself capable of succ ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIU AT THE LYCEUM. YE who listen with credulity to the whisper of passion and pursue with eagerness the phantom of fidelity, who expect that satiety will perform the pro mises of expectation, and that the vows of to day will be ratified by the spousals of to-mor row, attend to the his tory of Olivia, the Vicar's daughter. Stop! I am not Dr. Samuel Johnson, sometime of Bolt ...

... . M. Mayer has done much this year to deserve the support of thoBe who care for French performances. Of the musical part of his programme we speak elsewhere the dramatic representations include Le Prince Zilah and Theodora, the two new pieces which English playgoers were most anxious to see, whilst Mmes. Jane Hading and Sarah Bernhardt are unquestionably the most popular French actresses of ...

... MESSRS. ASHERBERG AND CO.-- A very pretty and telling serenade for a tenor is Look Down From Your Window, Dearest, written and composed by L. B. and Richard Harvey; it will prove a great success a ...

... . Jn Mr. J. UlarKe s latest revival ot Uolman s lieir at L,aw, he not only plays Dr. Pangloss, but Zelciel Homespun. The former impersonation, so elaborate in its oddity, and so laughter- moving in even the least appropriate of its eccentricities, is already so familiar as to need no further description. The latter is new so far as London is concerned, and is less satisfactory ex cept us a, ...

... OUB CAPTIOUS CBITia AT THE ALBERT PALACE. T J.. IT was a summer's evening, but my work, unlike old Kaspar's, so far from being done, was, alas! not even com menced. Time was on the wing, the close of the week was at hand, and it was absolutely necessary that a subject for captious criticism should be discovered forthwith. Like a dragon of old, I cast my eyes around in quest of some victim to ...

... . MR. J. H. MAELESON was singularly unfortunate on Tuesday last-- the day fixed for the opening of his short season of Italian Opera at Covent Garden. The opera selected for this occasion was La Traviata, and the heroine of that unsavoury work was to have been impersonated by Mme. Adelina Patti. Nearly all the numbered seats were disposed of, and many persons were disappointed, on their ...

... . AT a matinée, last week, Miss Henrietta Cowen, long known as a capable reciter, made her debut as an actress. Her success was decidedly promising. In Mr. Savile Clarke's smartly written and neatly devised comedietta, A Lyrical Lover, Miss Cowen not only spoke her lines intelligently-- that she would be sure to do --but bore herself easily upon the stage, and empha sised her speeches with ...