... THE latest novel by that prolific writer of fiction for readers of all ages, Mr. George Manville Fenn, aims at, and reaches, a higher level than is usual with its author. The Master of the Cere monie ...

... MTJSIO. ROYAL COLLEGE OF .-- At the recent competition for prizes, held at this institution, the gold medal for pianoforte playing was won by Mr. M. Barton, whose performances-- both as regards technical merit and intellectuality-- proved how much he had profited from the teachings of his instructor, Mr. John Francis Barnett. Mil Charles Harper. This celebrated hirn-player, a member of the ...

... MTJSIO. ROYAL COLLEGE OF . ̶ At the recent competition for prizes, held at this institution, the gold medal for pianoforte playing was won by Mr. M. Barton, whose performances ̶ both as regards technical merit and intellectuality ̶ proved how much he had profited from the teachings of his instructor, Mr. J ohn Francis Barnett. lvilt. Charles Harper. This celebrated hirn -player, a member of ...

... 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 ...

... AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE THEATRE. THE story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thiexes as told to his little friends by Mr. Augustus Harris reads simply enough.. The pamphlet, which gives the famous romance as the One- Thousandth-and-Second (it should be the One- Thousand-and- Second, by the way) Story of the Arabian Nights, conveys no sort of promise of the splendours with which the Drury Lane manager ...

... THE AL YEAR, 1886.-- The year which has just expired has been one of extraordinary activity, and also of great productivity in music. Only one branch of the Art-- the operatic-- has been really n ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A MARKED development is noticeable in the works of Mrs. Mac quoid. Like many workers in other fields of art, she has her earlier and her later manner; and, charming as was the first, there is much ful ...

... MUSIO. LAST YEAR'S MUSIC. DURING this week there has been a complete cessation of public musical entertainments, and an opportunity presents itself for a glance at the musical history of the year which has just closed. In January last the season opened with a performance of The Messiah by the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society. We may take this occasion to observe that this society has during ...

... DRAMA. STRAND THEATRE. MR. EDWARD COMMON continues with much spirit his series of revivals of old comedy at the Strand. His performances are so satisfactory that he surely need not add to his programme a formal request that the audience will retain their seats until the conclusion of the comedy, when the orchestra will play a final selection of music. Such a demand is at once a liberty and a ...

... 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 ...