... THE ITALIAN OPERAS.-- Over-competition has, we fear, not been productive of profit to every operatic entrepreneur. With three Separate enterprises to select from, the public, save ill exceptional Gase ...

... _ j I Ell I VERDI'S OTELLO.-- Accidents apart, Verdi's latest opera will be produced at La Scala, Milan, on Saturday of this week. A large number of professional musicians and critics (including rep ...

... AMARYLLIS AT THE FAIR (1 vol.: Sampson Low and Co.), is one of those idyllic pictures of country life with which its author, Mr. Richard Jefferies, of The Gamekeeper At Home, has become identified ...

... OUT OF TUNE, by Lewis Armytage (2 vols.: Swan Son nenschein), deals with the life of a wonderful violinist, named Romanelli, who, we are told in the preface, is the prototype of Paganini. We shoul ...

... THE adaptor of The Circassian at the CRITERION appears to have thought that the more foolishly his personages behaved the heartier would be the laughter evoked by their proceedings. This is a serious ...

... THE present week at the theatres may be described as a week of benefits and revivals. Mrs. Bernard Beere has returned to the OPERA COMIQUE, where she is now repeating nightly her powerful impersonatio ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- A grand song for a tenor is The Holy Vision, written and composed by F. E. Weatherly and Charles Gounod. We may look to hear this song often during the winter season ...

... IN The Gaverocks: a Tale of the Cornish Coast (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), Mr. Baring-Gould has not given the novel-reading world a work on the level of Mehalah, or John Herring, or even of ...

... MESSRS. AGATE AND CO.-- I'll Live for Thee, an ultra- romantic song, written and composed by Edward Oxenford and Charles Hoby, will find favour with musical victims to the tender passion.-- Faithf ...

... THE puff preliminary has doubtless its advantages, but it is on the whole a dangerous mode of awakening expectation. Had Mrs. Brown-Potter, the American beauty and favourite of society, quietly take ...

... THE FLOWER AND THE SPIRIT, by Frederika Macdonald (2 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), opens with some verses about the pale blue flower of romance, followed by others about the spirit, which leads to i ...

... 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 ...