... 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 ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Of two songs written and com posed by W. C. Newsam and Claude Melville, Gwendoline and My Boyhood's Love, the former is by far the more pleasing and original it will be a favo ...

... THE new comedietta entitled L'Indecis, in which M. Coquelin played the part of the hero at the ROYALTY last week, is but a trifle, a mere duologue, in fact, showing how a bashful and undecided gentlem ...

... . MR. FREEMAN THOMAS may be congratulated on the most successful Promenade Concert season ever known. He may also be specialty praised for his successful endeavours to establish his Wednesday Classical Concerts in the favour of musicians and of cultivated amateurs. The programme pro vided at the classical concert of last week would have done credit to the Philharmonic Society, and it is ...

... . The successful 1 -entree of this wonderful boy. at the Crystal Palace 011 Saturday last, has already been mentioned. Similar success attended his recital at St. James's Hall last Tuesday, when I10 executed tho following programme, to tho delight of a large and -brilliant audience 1 .--Sonata Patbtftitpxc Tloctboven. 2.- n. 44 Giguc Bach. Sonata Pastorale Scarlatti. c. 44 Variations Handel. ...

... . These delightful and instructive concerts will recommence 011 Monday, October 24th, and will be suspended duriug tho usual interval, from December 19th to January 7tli. Twenty- one concerts will bo given, and twenty Saturday concerts, and the musical prodigy, Josef Hofuiann, will delay liis visit to America in order to play at tho concerts on Mondays, October 21th and 31st. Amongst the ...

... . We recently took occasion to contradict the reports that a six weeks' season of Italian opera, at theatre prices, had been arrarged to take place at Covent Garden, under the management of Signor Lago. We are now in a position to state, on the best authority, that Signor Lago has entirely abandoned the idea of an autumnal season in London, and has departed for St. Petersburg, where he will ...

... . MR. JOHN A. STEVENS, the great American author, actor, and manager, who has come to us in A Secret Foe, seems to deserve a heartier welcome than he obtained on his appearance at the Opera Comique the other night. If the Mastodon were to return to our midst he would receive attention as a curiosity, even if he were not hailed as a useful addition to our fauna, or as a pleasant domestic pet. ...

... . MR. J. H. MAPLESON, endowed with the buoyancy of a cork, was no sooner dislodged from the Royal Italian Opera than he commenced preparations for another operatic campaign at Her Majesty's Theatre, and last Saturday invited the public to witness Lucia di Lammermoor. The public made but a feeble response, and the theatre wore a cheerless aspect, but the musical forces exhibited no sign of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HELD BY THE ENEMY. I HAVE before this put forward the view that action is the strong point of a drama and suspense one of the moat powerful levers to move the feelings of an audience. If once these latter can be aroused to a sense of fidget as to what is to come next, the success of the piece is pretty well assured. And to the fact of this pitch of excitement being ...

... . IT can hardly be maintained that the performances of Ia Dame aux Camélias and Frou-Frou at the Lyceum have come up to the standard of the rendering of Théodora, with which the French play season commenced here. The company porting Mme. Bernhardt seems much more at home in strongly accentuated melodrama than in romance of a less highly- coloured type: whilst for comedy its capacities are ...

... . IF Miss Violet Melnotte should succeed in her latest venture at the Comedy Theatre it will be in spite of the fact that she has chosen for revival a comedy of exhausted interest, and has presented it at the least attractive time of the year for play- going. We do not in any way underrate the cleverness of Mr Burnand's comedy, The Colonel. It turned to new and excel lent account the framework ...