... IN the new classic tragedy of Clito at the PRINCESS'S, Mr. Sydney Grundy and Mr. Wilson Barrett have set themselves the difficult task of interesting spectators in a heroine who is a monster of deprav ...

... . OF course there will be those who will object to the free and. irreverent handling which Wild Oats has received at the Criterion-- to the bold excisions that have been made, and to the dove-tailing of one act with another. But, after all, O'Keefe's comedy can hardly be considered a classic, and there is no doubt that its present treatment is admirably calculated to make it hit the taste of ...

... DRAMA. TOOLE'S THEATRE. IT is with a new play, and with comic vigour renewed after a trying illness, that Mr. Toole returns to his popular little theatre in King William-street, Strand. The new play, which is called The Butler, and is the joint work of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Merivale, contains nothing much to boast of in the way of dramatic invention or fresh humour. None the less, however, does ...

... MUSIO. LEEDS FESTIVAL-- According to present arrangements, the following will be the programme of the Fifth Leeds Triennial Musical Festival:-- Wednesday, October 13. Morning: Israel in Egypt; Evening: The Story of Sayid. written for the occasion and conducted by A. C. Mackenzie. The second part miscel laneous. Thursday, October 11. Morning: Bach's Mass in B minor; Evening: Ballad for chorus ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE EMPIRE, THE A.TRE. IT was August the twenty-fifth, and quite soft were the skies, and it might he inferred, as in the case of Bret Harte's Chinese hero, that my mental condition corresponded. At any rate, on no other grounds can I attempt to excuse the act of folly of which I was guilty. Like the Israelites of old, I had to prepare my tale of bricks-- no unfitting ...

... . STANLEY LUCAS, WEBEB, and Co., 84, New Bond-street.-- My Heart's Queen, 4s.; words, P. Barnes; music, W. T. Wadbam. A pretty song for amateur tenors.-- Forget Me Not, 4s., is the Vergiss Mein Nieht, composed exactly 150 years ago by J. Sebastian Bach, and now published, with German and Eaglish lines, and harffionised pianoforte accompaniment, by G. Herschel, who has done his work well. ...

... . There is, of course, no particular reason why Mr. Charles Wyndham shoull not revive Wild Outs, a comedy in which he appeared with considerable success at the Royalty a good many years ago. But there seems to us to be a very good reason why if he does bo he should avoid such rough treatment of O'Keefe's spirited old comedy as cuts down its five acts into three, and almost entirely destroys ...

... . ON Tuesday last a miscellaneous entertainment, organised by Miss Minnie Bell, was given at St. George's Hall, in aid of the Hospital for Children, Paddington Green. Music was the lead ing attraction, and a number of vocalists gave their aid. Miss Cocheris sang Nobil Signor (Les Huguenots) in the original soprano key, with moderate success; Miss Brandram sang Molloy's weak London Bridge ...

... . IT is an old story with but one new turn of incident and motive that is set forth at the St. James's in the new comedy presented there with such triumphant success on Saturday last. Antoinette, the wife who is weak and indiscreet, hut not actually wicked: M. Rigaud, the rough but not unkindly husband who has no romance in him, and little sympathy with a sentimental woman's yearnings; M. ...

... . This Day, Dec. 18.-- Tenth Crystal Palace Saturday Concert (last until after Christmas), devoted to the works of Weber, in honour of the Centenary of his birth Seventh Saturday Popular Concert (last this year), St. James's Hall, 3 p.m. Twelfth and Last Concert of the Heckmann Quartett.Steinway Hall. 3 pm. (Beethoven Selection) London Conservatoire of Music Benefit Concert, St. James's Hall, ...

... . THE Compton Comedy Company has done good work from time to time. But performances like that which opened a second London season at the Strand on Monday, although rapturously applauded by an extravagantly friendly house, are not likely to add per manently to the reputation of this combination for eclecticism. Garrick, an adaptation, by Mr. William Muskerry, of the same French piece Sullivan, ...

... . The rentree of this great artist at Mr. Arthur Chappell s Saturday Popular Concert last week attracted an audience that filled every part of St. James's Hall, and her performance of Beethoven's appropriately chosen sonata, Les Adieux, L' Absence, etLeRetour, elicited enthusiastic and prolonged applause, followed by such persistent recalls, that she once more sat down to the pianoforte, and ...