... Under the above title Messrs Dawson and Lath have intro luced, at the Prince's Hall, a very excellent enter- tainment. It is not always in the power of mortals to command success, we are told, but, at least, they can deserve it. and frequently, if success does not reward them at first, they win recognition later on. We sin- cerely hope this may be the result with Messrs Dawson and Lath's ...

... THiE DRAMA IN PARIs. FRANCILLON. comedy, in three acts, by M. Alexandre Dumas produced at the Comrdie-Franpaise, January 17th, 1887' Lucien de Riverolles ?? M. F. FzBVRE Marquis de Riverolles ?? bl. TmRON lcnruy de Symeux ?? M. LAcunCs Stonislas de Grandredon ?? M. WoRms Cilestin .. M. COqUELIN cadet JeanSe Cariliac.asK. Tasrosuxar se .d . ?? M . PsUcsuHN rse fraflnie de Rtiverolles*---. -MdUe ...

... TEE DRAMA IN SOUTE AFRICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.I PORT ELIZABETH, JANUARY 3.-The Pearmain company produced Pinero's farcical comedy The Magis. trate on Monday last, December 27th, and it ran well for five nights, being withdrawn on Saturday evening, January 1st. The piece was acted fairly well. Friday evening last. December 31st, was set apart for the benefit of the leading lady, Miss ...

... Every now and then we have the question of l the morality of the ballet broached in print. For i argumentative purposes the subject has few i equals in fertility. The matter has so many sides i that as many shades of opinion may be formed ( respecting it as on a political motion ; and yet, 1 after one of these ebullitions of sophistry and special pleading, the Terpsichorean institution : ...

... - PUBLIC AMSENENTS. SAVOY THEATRE. Since the days when, at tbe old Coburg Theatre, thrilling melodrima of the Fatal Bolster; or, the Blood Stained Bed Post type was at its zenith in popularity, it is doubtful if so ilesh-creeping a title has beea given to any piece as that which distinguishes the comic opera of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. W. S. Gil- bert, produced the other evening. Long, it ...

... * THE second volume of the late Professor Green's works consists of selec-, tions from his unpublished philosophical papers, the manuscripts of lectures delivered by him as college tutor and as professor. It includes lectures upon' logic and metaphysic, ethics and politics. We may begin by saying that all. these lectures are stiff reading. Philosophical literature can become easy only by ...

... 1.1OST people who have been to penny readings have heard a thrilling American poen relating to a backwoodsman on whose leg a tree fell. It is told of this heroic man that to save himself from a lingering death by starvation, he took his hatchet and deliberately hacked off his imprisoned leg, and proceeded on his way. Finding his progress impeded by the unequal length of his limbs, he sat down ...

... RECANT POETRY AND VERSE Tttl.RE are so many and such varied charms about St. Angus. tine's Holiday, and other Poems, by William Alexander, D. D., ?? Bishop of Dcrry and Raphoe (Kegan P'aul), that it is difficult to know where to begin praising. The musical numbers form so delightful a vehicle for the author's sympathetic thought, his fancy, andl, at times, his luxuriant imagination, that it ...

... STAG-HUNTING ON EXIMOOR. ' Faw men are better qualified to write the history of English stag-hunting, or to describe with the authority of experience this noble chase, than the present author. The volume will be read with lively interest both by those who feel a pride in the continued survival in England of the red deer-the last of our larger beasts of chase -and by the more numerous class ...

... RUDDYGORE AT THE SAVOY THEATRE. Of the success of Ruddygore, the Supernatural opera that is the latest product of the Gilbert- Sullivan partnership, there could be little doubt when, half-an-hour after the opera had commenced, Mr. Durward Lely, who was the Japanese lover of The ,lfikrado, appeared as a dashing man-of-war's man of the beginning of the century, and after being encored in a ...

... TI.EAT-E TIIE prominence of the Colonics, and the absence-for the first trne in the annals of DR trY LANK pantomime- of that customary transformation scene wherein, as Mr. Swhinlbrrne says, Ihe form- less foldeed skies take shancran'l are unfolled like as flowers -such are the characteristics of Mr. E. L, Itlanchard1's very latest version of the popular legend of 7Yhe ?? 7Ztieves whiclr ...

... TBE THEATRES. The snecial feature of the Era Almanalct, which is to be published to-4ay, is a series of carefully executed facsinuiles of autograph letters froin distinguished actors and actresses in reply to the question, I What is the most striking incident in youi professional experi- ence? Mr. Irving, whose humour it is to take the question in a matter-of-fact fashion, retlies that the ...