... Messrs. Stanley Lucas, Weiifr, anij Co. Elegiac Ode, the words from President Lincoln's Burial IFymn, by Walt Whitman, has been set to appropriate music by C. Villiers Stanford. Works of this desc ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. INDIA IN LONDON. I BELIEVE that I have a pretty fair knowledge of many things, and I do not mind admitting that on occasion I have ven tured to affect a tolerably profound acquaintance with a few more. But I feel hound to draw the line at Indian affairs la these I will confess at the very outset that I am no expert. Like the friend of Bam Chowdar Doss Azuph A1 Bowlar im ...

... . M. CARILLON had reason to be satisfied with the prospects of success afforded him on Saturday last, when he opened. Her Majesty's Theatre for the first performance of his Italian Opera season, and an audience was attracted that filled the pit, gal leries, and boxes, and almost half the stalls. Popular prices appeal to a wide constituency. There is always a number of persons anxious to be ...

... . AFTER one burst of comparatively good fortune the Olympic has promptly reverted to the ill luck which of late years has be come habitual with that once prosperous house. The Countess and the Dancer, with Miss Etelka Borry as the heroine, has proved a ridiculous fiasco, as had indeed been anticipated by those who remembered the piece under its original title of Jealousy. This crude adaptation ...

... WE entirely agree with the reasons laid down by Mr. Lewis Wingfield, on George Eliot's authority, in the preface to Barbara Philpot: a Study of Manners and Morals, 1727 to 1737 (3 vols.: Bentley and ...

... ROYAL CONCERTS.-- On Friday, for the first time since the Prince Consort's death, the Queen heard a public performance of an oratorio. Her Majesty was delighted, telegraphed her congratu lations to M. ...

... |LnL\\ y/ /'f T: THE title Picturesque Canada (Cassell) exactly suits these two very handsome volumes. Full of admirable illustrations by first- rate artists, such as L. R. O'Brien, Schell and Hogan ...

... . YESTERDAY week, the Royal Albert Hall presented a brilliant spectacle; the sun shining brightly on an audience of nearly ten thousand people, gathered together, ostensibly, for the sake of hearing M. Charles Gounod's latest oratorio, Mors et Vita, but really attracted by the anouncement that the per formance of that work would he attended by Her Majesty the Queen. Respecting the work itself ...

... . St. James's Hall was orowded last Tuesday, when Dvorak's Stabal Mater was performed uuder the direction of Mr. Mackenzie, with Mmes. Albani and Patey, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Santley as leading vocalists (bow admirably they sang it is needless to say), the choruses sung by the excellent Novello Choir, and the fine band led by Mr. Carrodus. At every fresh hearing Dvorak's Stobat Mater unfolds fresh ...

... OPERA COMIQTJE. On'Change at the Opera Comiquo is now preceded by a good old-fashioned farce, played exactly as it ought to be by Mr. Felix Morris and his supporters. The hit made by Mr. Morris as the Scotch Professor, who turns Stock Exohange speculator, was recognised during the early days of Miss Lawrence's adap tation from the German (now, by the way, to be played in three acts instead of ...

... . PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.-- The opening concert of the 74th annual season of this venerable but vigorous society took place at St. James's Hall last week, under the direction of Sir Arthur Sullivan, who was heartily cheered on taking the post he has shown himself so perfectly qualified to fill. Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony, with which the concert commenced, was splendidly played, and many ...

... MR. GEORGE MANVILLE FENN has prepared for the NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE a dramatic version of his popular novel The Parson of Dumford, which was brought out at that house on Mon day evening under some ...