... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AND THE FORTY THIEVES AT DRURY LANF. Some of those dresses must have cost four guineas a yard.-- A Lady. THERE whirl cha otic through my dazzled brain Disjointed visions, born of Drury Lane, Where great Augus- 9 tus gives, this fff Christmas time, The acme of proces- I sional pantomime. The radiant East he of its wealth tv bereaves p To deck with rifled spoils his Forty ...

... DRAMA. ROYALTY THEATRE. MR. ERNEST WARREN has accomplished with really remark able neatness his adaptation of M. Albin Valabrague's comedy Le Bonheur Conjugal. Although this piece had a long and most prosperous run at the Gymnase, in Paris, where its chief characters were played by MM. Landrol and Noblet and Mlle. Marie Magnier, this circumstance hardly seemed to be much in its favour so far ...

... . The Cleveland Hounds, as a Trencher-fed, Pack. By A. E. PEASE. With Map, Frontispiece, and Facsimile Engravings. Longmans. 1887. This book is an interesting record oi sport m the tar-iying district of North Yorkshire, and it presents a quaint picture of men and manners there in the primitive fox-hunting days of last century, and also in later times. Hunting of sorts was in vogue in ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT CO VENT GARDEN CIRCUS. HI! hi! hi! This way for the riders. The old familiar cry recurred to me as I entered the lobby of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, to sample the entertainment provided for the third season in succession by the Covent Garden Circus Company, Limited. Not that any such undignified method of soliciting patronage as is in vogue at country fairs was ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AND THE CHURCHWARDEN. THE pernicious practice of paragraphing the sayings and doings of actors and actresses in private life, so extensively carried on at present, has, I should venture to say, a great deal to do with the title of the piece now being performed at the Olympic Theatre. The prominence given in certain papers to the parochial functions locally exercised by Mr ...

... . ANYONE who wishes to feel small, either from motives of curiosity or for mortification of the flesh, can hardly do better than pay a visit just now to the flourishing music hall in Piccadilly, where Mr. Villiers generally provides his patrons with something new to see or to hear. The latest addition to the programme here is a very substantial one, and seems likely to prove a literally ...

... THE prominence of the Colonics, and the absence-- for the first time in the annals of DRURY LANE pantomime-- of that customary transformation scene wherein, as Mr. Swinburne says, The form less folde ...

... MUCH has been said in various quarters of the inconveniences experienced by playgoers since Christmas from the snow and the fog; but not a word of compassion have .we met with for the unfortunate acto ...

... MESSRS. MARRIOTT AND WILLIAMS.-- A very pretty trio for the drawing-room is He Is Mine, written and composed by L. Liepmann and Edith Marriott, first and second soprano, and contralto. By the same c ...

... RUDDYGORE.-- The new opera by Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, which was produced at the Savoy Theatre on Saturday night, bears the not very happily-selected title of Ruddygore; er The Witch's C ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE NOBLE VAGABOND. SOME months-- or it may be years-- back, a curious para graph went the rounds of the metropolitan and provincial press. It was to the effect that some enterprising manager-- American, if my memory rightly serves me-- was about to effect a wonderful improvement in the matter of scene-setting. His plan was that of two stages, one at a certain distance ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- Well adapted for a concert where the first part is sacred is I Will Magnify Thee, O God (Psalm cxlv.), composed by J. Maude Crament, Mus. Bac., Oxon., a work which d ...