... MR. TERRY has opened his new Theatre in the Strand, not with any new piece, but with much that is novel in the way of arrange ments for securing the safety and comfort of his patrons. The house itself ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The Covent Garden season is now fairly started; yet another Royal Italian Opera (there is no copy right in the title) will begin at Drury Lane on Monday week, and Mr. Mapleson ...

... B. MALYON (GLASGOW).-- A very clever invention has been patented by Madame Bennett, a well known professor of music. The Self-instructing Key-board for Pianoforte, &c., specially designed for beginn ...

... THE latest novel by that prolific writer of fiction for readers of all ages, Mr. George Manville Fenn, aims at, and reaches, a higher level than is usual with its author. The Master of the Cere monie ...

... MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.-- Of a very ordinary type is Had You Only Known, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Allred Moul.-- Love Ties, words by H. B. Farnie, music by F. P. Tosti, is w ...

... OF THE JUBILEE.-- In the Jubilee celebration, music has hardly taken a very important part, although there has been plenty of Jubilee music. Sir Arthur Sullivan's Ode, written to Mr. Lewis Morri ...

... Alfred Hays. No. I. of W. Sterndale Bennett's edition of Mendelssohn's Pianoforte Pieces, carefully revised and fingered by his pupil, Arthur O'Leary, is Andante and Allegro, one of his most gracef ...

... ALLEGRA, by Mary West (2 vols. Fisher Unwin), begins with the vising of the Milanese in 1848, and covers the whole lime that elapses until the coining of Garibaldi and the battles of Magenta and So ...

... SHE is as skittish as a grass-widow, observes one of the cha racters in the new comedy by Messrs. Hamilton and Quinton, brought out at the PRINCE OF WALES'S on Tuesday afternoon, to which the answer ...

... LONDON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.-- On Wednesday Mr. Henschel directed the last of the London Symphony Concerts to be given before Christmas. Herr Bernhard Stavenhagen-- fortunately for the audience, in his m ...

... THE prominent feature in the theatrical programme for the Christmas holidays is the renewal of the long-suspended rivalry between Drury Lane and Covent Garden in the matter of pantomimes. Report speak ...

... MR. CARTON, who is joint author with Mr. Cecil Raleigh of the new romantic drama with which Miss Agnes Hewitt has reopened the OLYMPIC, is an actor of some experience, and The Pointsman is essentially ...