... . 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. ...

... MESSRS. RANSFORD AND SON.-- Two piquante songs of the serio-comic drawing-room school are Nothing for Love, written and composed by Miss E. M. Harrison and Henry Pontet, and Somebody's Secret, wor ...

... THE OPERA.-- Her Majesty's Theatre is officially announced to be opened for a brief season of Italian Opera at cheap prices on the 27th instant. The name of the entrepreneur is not given, nor are most ...

... JENNY JENNETT, by A. Gallenga (2 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is described as a tale without a murder, and so it is, though it goes nearer to containing one than nine novels out of ten. It is the his ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. FAUST AND LOOSE. MISSED! à la Miss Thompson. Yes, I am afraid that it is so this time. Mr. F. C. Burnand has dashed forth, mounted upon the good steed Imagina tion, and flourishing the pen of Fancy, but he has failed in this course to hit the peg Success. Such, at least, is my view as regards his new travestie, entitled Faust and Loose or, Bracken Vows now running at ...

... . A General History of Music, from the Infancy of the Greek Drama to the Present Period. ByW S. Rocksteo. London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Fleet-street. 1SS6. MR. ROCKSTRO has produced a very useful work, and one which he was competent to write, as a careful student and a fair judge, though he is unduly given to asserting his own opinions as if they were universally ...

... . THE continual increase in the number of amateur vocalists is likely to bring accessions to the list of our professional singers. The lastest accession is that of Mr. Charles Wade, who--after winning fame as an amateur tenor--has adopted the career of a professional vocalist, and on Tuesday last, at Prince's Hall, gave the second of three chamber concerts honoured by Royal patronage. It will ...

... PAVOY THEATRE. A NEW operetta, entitled The Carp, was successfully produced last Saturday at the Savoy Theatre, where it will for the present serve as a lever du rideau before The Mikado, which still draws large audiences. The operetta will henceforth commence at 7.30 p.m. and the opera at 8.30. The libretto of the operetta is written by Mr. F. Desprez, and sets forth a simple story in simple ...

... . At St. George's Hall, amongst the varied entertainments pro vided by Mies Minnie Bell, on Tuesday last, was a new operetta, entitled Keep your Places written by Mr. Robert Reece, and composed by Mr. G. B. Allen. Tbe libretto is founded on the ancient Scottish story of John Grumlie and His Wife, who for the space of an entire day changed places, the wife going on to the farm to hoe turnips, ...

... THAT workmanlike construction, effective situations, and powerful acting are practically more important than freshness in the story of a play, is a managerial maxim which has received a new and striki ...

... 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 ...