... THE new play by Mr. H. A. Jones and Mr. Wilson Barrett at the PRINCESS'S is not a drama with a symmetrical design and well- defined purpose, but rather a succession of tableaux and startling adventure ...

... The Thin Red Line, by Arthur Griffiths (2 vols. Chapman and Hall), belongs to a very elementary order of fiction. Major Griffiths so disposes his characters as to make a loosely-constructed by-plot s ...

... MADAME NILSSON'S PROJECTED MARRIAGE.-- Madame Christine Nilsson has set at rest conflicting reports concerning her projected marriage, by a personal statement on the subject. The great prima donna dec ...

... THE SUMMER CONCERT SEASON.-- Easter has made a distinct break between the close of the spring and the commencement of the summer seasons. The season may be said to open this (Saturday) afternoon, when ...

... THE authors of those elaborate farces which are known to our stage as farcical comedies seem to be in a fair way to be able to dispense with anything like ingenuity in the matter of plots. The story ...

... Messrs. E. Ascherberg and Co. For two very pleasing songs, F. II. Cowen has supplied the admirable music. Year Afler Year, a sweet and pathetic poem, is by the author of John Halifax I Love Thee ...

... THE Pastoral Players have been more happy this year in their choice of locality than in the fragment of a play which they have presented. Fair Rosamond in her bower, or rather in her leafy labyrinth, ...

... FOUR novels before us have a striking peculiarity in common, rendering it desirable to separate them from their companions in publication, and to deal with them together. Their peculiarity is a charac ...

... GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF .-- On Thursday the new school built in Whitefriars, at the back of Zion College, on the Thames Embankment, was formally opened by the Lord Mayor. The architect is Sir Horace ...

... THE curious run, so to speak, upon dramatic versions of the well-known anecdote of Garrick's generous effort to cure the stage- struck young lady of her passion, seems likely to be of short dura tio ...

... THE SEASON.-- Whitsuntide being a moveable feast, and fol lowing the date of Easter, came this year at the latest possible time, and thereby gave to the holiday-making millions a summer instead of a s ...

... THE RUSSIAN CHOIR.-- The choir of sixty Russian vocalists, trained by Dmitri Slaviansky d'Agréneff, who have recently been touring through Europe, made their début in England on Wednes day night, befo ...