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... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- Well suited for the fast approaching autumn evenings at home or abroad are a group of songs by popular poets and composers. F. Paolo Tosti has set to music for a tenor Longf ...

... THE large and friendly audience who witnessed the extra per formance of Olivia on Saturday evening last afforded as strong an evidence as could well be given of the great popularity of Mr. Irving and ...

... BpylPilP MR. W. CLARK RUSSELL appears to find peculiar fascination in the subject of the loss and recovery of memory. In the preliminary note to his latest novel, The Golden Hope: a Romance of the De ...

... THE FESTIVALS.-- The last of the important provincial Festivals of the year, that of Norwich, will commence and conclude next week. There are still one or two local festivals to be held, but they will ...

... LONDON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.-- The large audience which assembled at this concert on Wednesday was doubtless in great measure due to generous admixture in the programme of the favourite and the novel in ...

... MESSRS. HUTCHINGS AND CO.-- Most of our readers are familiar with Longfellow's beautiful poem, The Wreck of the Hesperus, which is full of pathos, and has inspired C. H. Lewis to a very pleasing mus ...

... THE hitherto well-kept secret of the subject of the new comic opera by Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in preparation at the SAVOY has at last come to light in the columns of the World. The new pi ...

... l '7V7\ K -Xusic) i 'k J* THE OPERA.-- Since Mr. Mapleson has discarded the more hackneyed operas of the older repertory his enterprise has been rewarded by a succession of crowded houses, particularl ...

... MESSRS. MARRIOTT AND WILLIAMS.-- From this firm we have a very good collection of songs. Three of these songs are by Helena Heath, a clever and rising composer. Prettiest of the group is The Day is D ...

... ŒDIPUS TYRANNUS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (From our Special Correspondent).-- The Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, performed in Greek, with Dr. Villiers Stanford's original music, by members of Cambridge ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- We did hope that the Jubilee music, good, indifferent, and bad, had come to an end; but, unfortunately, many good compositions continue to arrive, and all we can hones ...