... PROFESSOR CROCKER'S troupe of educated horses deserve a more ample space for the exhibition of their intelligence and docility than they have found at the Avenue Theatre, but the unfavourable conditio ...

... MESSRS. MOUTRIE AND SON.-- Charles Kingsley's bright and spirited poem, When All the World is Young, has inspired more than one composer to set it to music. Sidney P. Fane is the latest who has take ...

... 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 ...

... MR. J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON, in His Own Enemy: The Story of a Man of the World (2 vols.: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), gives the life history of one Frank Carless, who, from sheer weakness of character, ...

... 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 ...

... GREAT interest is felt in Mr. Irving's appearance in Macready's famous part of Werner, at the LYCEUM, on Wednesday afternoon next. Lord Byron's tragedy has no very remarkable elements of popularity, a ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Signor Lago opened Covent Garden for the season on Tuesday night with La Favorita, Signor Gayarre once more playing Fernando. The Leonora was a new comer, Mdlle. Medea Mei, a la ...

... f|jf REA>)Ei I :p MR. WILLIAM COCHRAN tells us that he has written with a philanthropic motive his Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor; or, Notes from the Levant (Sampson Low). His aim is certainly a patr ...

... TITO DI GIO RICORDI.-- From hence come a number of songs of more than ordinary merit, foremost amongst which are five of F. Paolo Tosti's very charming compositions, which never fail to please refined ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- Part 76, Vol. X. of the Organist's Quarterly Journal inaugurates well the autumn publish ing season. We have had a more than usually long dead time, but there are sign ...

... THE CONCERT SEASON.-- The autumn season of 1887 is now very nearly over, and after about the middle of next week, until the spring season commences early in January, little but the holiday performance ...