... . In Current Cash, which has for the last few nights occupied the stage of the Surrey, the management has presented a piece already stamped with provincial Buccess. Current Cash is by Mr. C. A. Clarke, who has invented a story with much in it that is stale and common place, but one point that is fresh and interesting. This latter concerns the hero, who, when supposed to be dead, disguises ...

... SIR CHARLES YOUNG'S capital drama Jim the Penman evidently interested Islirgton playgoers very much on its presentation at the Grand the other day. As we pointed out on its original production at the Haymarket, it is a very clever piece of dramatic workmanship, and narrowly misses being one of the great plays of the day. Its great defect lies of course in the failure to illustrate in action ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HARD HIT. IT is all very well to be wise after the event-- to claim to have prognosticated an inevitable failure, or to add one's tributary brick to the laudatory pile erected over a secured success. A writer who has leisure to watch the course of events and nous to gauge the issue of paper before penning a criticism has a better opportunity of posing as a correct ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE OPERA COMIQUE. THERE are many monkey stories of home and foreign manu facture. Of all these there is one that has always commended itself to me by the deep insight into human nature revealed by it. The real hero is less a monkey than a gentleman who hap pened to be joint owner of one of those entertaining animals and of a house with a back garden abutting on to the ...

... . M. Jui.es Rivieue, the well-known composer aud orclic. conductor, lias taken the musical direction of a scries promenade concerts at. the Japanese Village, Knightsbri g j j uud has secured the services of a band numbering fifty c Mm performers, in addition to well-known and popular vMUWj The i pening concert on Saturday last was ivcR atteuded, the audience appeared to be gratified with the ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. AT THE MELBOURNE CUP. (Concluded.) Paget looked at the clock. They'll be starting soon, we'd better go up into the stand to look at the race. Shan't we go back to the drag? I asked, feeling a rather rueful hankering after the dainty girls who had made my drive to the course so pleasant. Oh, no, he replied; you'll see much better in th) stand. Besides, if we ...

... . MISS AGNES HEWITT, the new le tee of the Olympic, has made a fairly good start upon her enterprising venture. In the first place, she has made the dingy, dusty old house a pleasant and attractive place in which to spend an evening, which it certainly has not been for many a year. The favourite old colours-- white and crimson-- have seldom been employed to more cheerful advantage; the ...

... THE second concert of the seventy-fifth season of this famous society was given last week under the direction of Mr. Frederic Cowen, vice Sir Arthur Sullivan, who was detained at Berlin by the preparations for the performance of his dramatic cantata. The Golden Legend, on Saturday last. Mr. Cowen proved himself (not for the first time) worthy to conduct a Philharmonic Concert, and secured good ...

... . Under the skilful direction of Signor Arditi,the Promenade Concerts given recently at this theatre have proved worthy of attention. The first classical concert of the season was specially meritorious the performance including Mozart's E flat symphony, the Larghetto from Sphor's symphony in C minor, the lovely Scherzo from Mendelsrohn'a Midsummer Night's Bream music, the overture to Anacreon, ...

... . THE procession of Mr. Mapleson's prime donne seems inter minable. Last week, with very little prefatory announcement, Mme. Mazzoli Orsini, a prima donna drammatica of some celebrity on the Continent, made her first appearance in Eng land as Leonora, the heroine of Donizetti's finest opera, La Farorita. On Thursday last La Sonnambula was announced for the début of Mlle. Nevada as Amina, and ...

... . It was, we believe, intended to introduce into tbe second edition of Monte Crista more new features than had been got ready for Easter. The illness, however, of Miss Marion Hood and Miss Barlow, for whom substitutes had to be provided, was no doubt accountable for the diminished number of the promised changes. This, however, was of the slightest possible moment, for the old songs and dances ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITia MONTE CEISTO JR. THE amiable but anonymous cor respondent who lately requested me to in form him and his fellow residents in the country what Monte Cristo Jr. was like, and at the same time adjured my colleague to portray for him Miss Farren and Mr. Fred Leslie, will I fear have some cause to complain of my attempt to gratify his desires. In the first plaoe so much has ...