... I WE suppose that, until an author places his name on his title pages, his anonymity must be respected, however open his secret may be. It is still under the title of the Author of 'Mehala,' 'John Herring,' &c., that the author of Court Royal ; a Story of Cross Currents (3 vols: Smith, Elder, and Co.), must be congratulated on having produced a work which gives scarcely qualified pleasure ...

... CONCERT AT PRINCE'S HiALL. A concert in aid of a fund for the benefit of the widow of the late Signor Nicola Ferri was given at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, last Monday afternoon, unde, distinguished patronage. From particulars printed on the programme we learn that Signor Ferri was a composer of high order. At the age of sixteen he composed his first opera, Luigi Rolla, which was so suc- ...

... The melodious solos and choruses of Reinecke's cantata The Enchanted Swans, as rendered by a choir of lady students, at the concert of the Guildhall School of Music, provided an agreeable piece de resistance for the numerous friends of the school congregated in the splendid Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House on the afternoon of Saturday last. The foundation of the story of The Enchanted Swans ...

... 9- MR. EDWIN ARNOLD h done more than any other man in bringing the poetry of India. life before, the English. public, and in creating a popular- interest in the greatest'6f India's religious 'teachers. He hat lately returned from revisiting . the country for which he has done so much since his early residence in the East, .and the preseni volume is a collection of ' the letters sen't' home ...

... t IT becomes increasingly difficult to criticise Mr. George Macdonald's novels. They are so invariably written in one key, and deal so consistently with the same great questions, that to treat any separately is scarcely possible. Each is a stone in a single cairn. Indeed we doubt if we are warranted in speaking of them as novels at all. They are rather mystical treatises on practical theology ...

... TIE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINLI:_ . - Str TPA~pTAWf n.P17PA (n>.fV TNr - .- A_ I NT. * ROYAL ITA t1 UirkKdX, tUVUINT GARDEN. TO-MORROW (Thurid,') EVEINING, at S. , foi- the First Time this season MOZA RT's DON G;IOVANNI. Md llt. ELLRNA TEODORiNI, lmdne. DE CEPEI>A, Nidlic. GIULIA VALIA. ' 'ignori MAlRAN, PINTO, .ARBONE,RlCCI, arld MIoos. AIAURE.L(Il. f LDA this season). Pt - . L, ...

... LIT-- ?? TV-U E. a ,-dfourareeis0usee1 ,0iU i te 0 instes4t31000 depositors in r h00ave fQ,000 D,0l.d ~, ?? waes w hav ove 4,00,000 instead 0,0Mcli~drO neo bingeduated, we 'e'i5 J00 000 rs cur schools. As Galileo I'r oo'es i;Unresting. unhasting, ;$ Occur whre motte of the land; let it still be The first reform advocated is that of the loadwlslich as they stand are ' simply iccesil asil ...

... mUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPE1RA. On Tuesday evening Lucia di Lammer- moor was performed, with Madile. Ella Russell as the heroine. This was the second appearance of the accom- plished American prima donna, whose previous success hers as Gilda in 1 Rigoletto has been noticed by us. in On the occasion now referred to the lady's suecess was tir more than confirmed; indeed it was enhanced to such ...

... The lateness of the modern' dinner hour has been held responsible by essayists with a turn for paradox for the gradual deterioration of the quality of our curtain-raisers, if not for what they are pleased to call the decadence of the modern drama, no less famous a personage than DI. Sardou lending his weighty authority to this theory in a serious pamphlet. Mindful of this, and emulous of the ...

... On Tuesday, June 16th, the Opera, in Four Acts, by A. Goring Thomas, ESMEBALDA. Phubus de Chateaupers ?? - Mr BARTON MOGUCKIN Claude Frollo. ?? Mr JAMES SAUVfOE Quasimodo ?? Mr LESLIE CRoTTY Fleur-de-Lys ?? iss VADSNI Lady Lois ?? MiSS WALSH Marquis de Chevreuse ?? Mr CAMPBELL Gringoire ?? Mr BsAuMONT Clopin .Mr MAX EuoayeN Esmeralda ?? Madame GEORaiNA BURNS The performances of the Carl ...

... I Tima success of T-he Private Seeretaly and On 'Change has created a sort of run upon the farcical plays of Baron Von Moser; but the latest venture in this field- a version of Die Leibrente, brought out at a GAIETY ima/ihe last week-is not of a very encouraging kind. Judging from this authorised adaptation, produced with the co-operation of the German author's recognised representative in ...

... WEST HAM IND1STRIAL AND ARTISTIC EX=ITION. An excellent and somewhat extensive col- lection of exhibits illustrative of art and industry in the West Ham district of Stratford was opened to publio view on Saturday in the Church Hall, Portway, Wvest Ham, and will remain open for a week. The inaugural ceremony, in the largest of the several rooms of the commodious haUl, was conducted by the Rev. ...