... ' 'ITALAN OPERA COMPANY. The revival of the enterprise known as Her Majesty's Italian Opera Company, alluded to yesterday, does not necessarily imply that Italian opera itself, like the fabled Plicenix, is about to renew its existence. Pending the long-talked-of production of Signor Verdi's Ot4llo, Italian opera appears still in a moribund condition. But opera in Italian isquite another thing; ...

... -our JUbrarP Zablt* ZI~sfa~cos IdedtUtie. ] J. B. Wa re- (Londo: i Diprose and Bateman.) hi little Jvolume is a colnetioi of the stories 02 debrated coases of imposture. from the Martin Gnerre to ?? case. They are a remdarkhble series of 3 Farra'ives includi ing the courier of vyonm, form in others. V wemay remind Mr Ware, however, that the atn gustioe Bovill tried the first Tiobborne ease. .5 ...

... I A WRITER in the Queen, dilates on the season- f able topic of daucing dresses. There are a variety f of stuffs to choose frlmt this year wlhena dancing. 3 gown has to be decided on. Tulle is always the l most costly and the most legaut ; its soft filni- ness culiarly becoming to youth, and young a married women who dance introduce haudsome panels and embroideries with it. The skirts of tulle ...

... N F'W ZeLA'6~AZ Im, d Tbera ia much 12 ;in ns, n nm whejh ?? imagaznL. 0ecia'ugood tloton c ?? the wond'esl that, it has not linked itself with liriodica1' literatura efore'now. Tbe.magLaziO that berlt ,for theaI firat:tinieii'not, lioweMer, a mere oftierthoughtZ 'It was I suggedtedflong-ago, whia the fieldj wse perfeotly open, 1 and wheriit wroldrhave been'easy, for it to Winavour everywhere ...

... -4 COVENT GARDEN. So successful was the grand circus entertainment given here last season that the experiment, on a yet larger and more attractive scile, is to be repeated this, under the manageussnt of M![r. A. Henry asi the eques- trian manager, and of the ever-csurteous Mr. Douglas Cox as business manager. At home and abroad, to judge by the programme that has been put forward, circus ...

... LITERARY AND ART NOTES, ETc. The Queen has accepted a presentation copy on satin of Mr. Humphry Ward's new book, ?? Art in the Public Galleries of London,' the first three parts of which have lately been published by Messrs; Boussod, Valadon, fand Co. A new work on the Federation question will shortly be published by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. It is entitled IThe Unit of Imperial ...

... PRINCESS'S -THE3ATRE. (Under the Management of Mr. C. H. HAWVTREY.) TO.NIGTIT, at 8.e1, will be acted a New and Orizinal Play, in a Prologue and Fterce Acts, entitled HARVEST, by H. HA5IXLToN, vwith the following cast :-Messrs. Arthur Dacre, C. H. Hawtrey, Bradn ''homas;,W. H. Denny, VYorke Stephens; Mesdames Amy Itoselle, FannYBrough, A. Meanor, Carlotta Addisonl, &c. Pereeded by a N ew and ...

... | Inlieu apparently, of the Thursday morning performance of opera which is usually given here by touring Iyric com- panies for the benefit of country visitors, Mr. Mapleson's company gave on Saturday a so-called morning concert in the Town Hall, at popular prices. The performance, which commenced at half-past two o'clock, was exclusively vocal in character, and the programme was so ...

... RHYME AND REASON, acf A tl Em .P t._ ;BY INGLORiouS BAP.DS.] They go together aometin es-rhyme and reason.oi Popular prejudice says oth5e; ut it is v.rong. to ,Te this for instance - l .oI There's no disgrace in being poor, Ttco So says the proverb lenient; TI But there is one thing very sure, dic It's mighty inconvenient. . There may not be art in that, but our readers will is c all admit ...

... HALF A CEAETURY OF LOIVDON LIFE. TIE HAYWARD CORaRESPONDENCE.* IT is nearly three years since a remarkably brilliant and widely representa' tive crowd gathered to pay what we call the last tribute of affection and esteem round the open grave of perhaps the best-hated man in London,. and some one else has long ago succeeded the little wrinkled old gentle- man in the occupancy of Theodore Hook's ...

... SOME OF MR. GURNEYS GHOST STORIES MR. EDMUND GURNEY'S: remonstrance concerning the doubt expressed in our review of Phantasms of the Living as to the truth of the curious. stories contained in that book, induces us to place a few of them before our readers, who .can judge for themselves of the weight of the corrobora- tion upon which Mr. Gurney relies Mr. Edmund Gurney gently remonstrates ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, (Au(us rUS IARS-is. Leisee and Axnageer4 THIS DAY at I.30. Doors open at 12.45, ordinary doors at I. r5. And THIS EVENING at 7.30. Doors open at 6 45, ordinar\ doors at 7.r5. 11THE FORTY THIEVES Box Office open dai y from to to . At DRURY LANE? TWICE DAILY, at T.30 and p.jo Mesdames Constance Gilclsrist, Edith Blande-Brereton, U. ...