... 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 ...

... A NEW novel by the author of Vice Versâ and The Giant's Robe must, as a matter of course, be regarded as something of a literary event. A Fallen Idol, by F. Anstey (I vol.: Smith, Elder, and Co ...

... . 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 past week has been an absolutely dead one for the drama. Even the publication of a letter from Mr. Dion Boucicault has failed to rouse the public to interest. We give the letter, as requested by Mr. Boucicault, and shall be only too happy if it convince our readers it fails to convince us-- that The Jilt is to be accepted without demur as a correct illustration of the rules and methods ...

... . Two years ago, while Mr. Brookfield managed the Haymarket for a season, the three-act farce called Bachelors, adapted from the German by Messrs. Buchanan and Vezin, was played in London for the first time. Its reception then was but moderately enthusiastic, although a well-selected company worked hard for success. The piece was neither good enough nor bad enough to make a great hit or a ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE JILT. ON the 25th August, 1804, a number of people, variously esti mated at from fifty thousand to a hundred thousand, assembled on the Knavesmire to wit ness a match between Mrs. Thornton, on her husband's horse Vin garillo, and Mr. Flint, on Thornville. The distance was four miles, and the nominal stakes a thousand guineas a-side. They rode at catch weight, and the ...

... . gEASIDE SEASON. --THE SOUTH COAST- BRIGHTON Frequent Trains from Victoria and SEA FORD Loudon Bridge. EASTBOURNE Tr. iisa'so from Kensin ton (Addison ST. LEONARDS Road Station). HASTINGS Return Ticktts from London available WORTHING for eight days. LLTTLEHAMPTON Weekly, Portnigh'ly, and Monthly BOGNOR Tickets. HAYLLNG ISL 1ND Improved Train Services. PORTSMOUTH Pullman Car Trains between ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. THE msrked success attending the production of The School for Scandal, by the Vaughan-Conway Com pany, at that old home of comedy, the Haymarket Theatre, is a circumstance which causes me that abstract satisfaction easier to express than to define. Sheridan may he emphatic ally designated good- goods, andarush for these on the part of the play ...

... . The annual ceremony of distributing medals to pupils of this admirable institution who had distinguished themselves at the recent competitive examinations took place last week at St. George's Hall. Dr. Wylde, principal of the Academy, prefac.d the distribution by a short address, in which he reminded the young academicians of the honour conferred upon them on a previous occasion when the ...

... . MR. WILLIE EDOUIN, whose managerial efforts at the Novelty Theatre were the reverse of successful, appears to have struck oil in the new and original melodramatic farcical comedy in three acts, and entitled Turned Up, with which he opened his Beason at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday last. The piece, under a different title (Too Much Married) had been successfully produced at a morning ...

... PASTOR AL PLAYS. THE forest scenes of Shakespeare's As You like It were re presented last Saturday in a richly-wooded corner of Sir Spencer Maryon Wilson's park, at Charlton, by a company of profes sional artists, under the direction of Mr. Ban Greet, whose im personation of Touchstone was conspicuously successful. In the character of Rosalind, Miss Webster displayed histrionic and ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ON BANK HOLIDAYS. ONE man's meat is another man's poison, one man's delight is another man's abhorrence, and one man's pleasure too fre quently another man's pain. So one man's especial delectation may mean a vast amount of extra labour entailed upon sundry other specimens of humanity, to say nothing of beasts of bur then. Bank Holidays may be, as I have read, a source of ...