... NIM-1-abl? eo? ?W=At LADY VALERIA, by A. Moberly (Bentley and Son), is a work full of promise. Aw~kwiardly constructed, wasting enough material for several well arranged novels, and with an altogether over- crowded canvas, its complications are interesting. And what, by reason of its rarity, is still better, the author has plenty of imagina- tion, and even a sense of humour. Both were ...

... At the Lambeth Police-court last Thursday, William Farrell, better known in the music hall world as Pat Carney, appeared to an adjourned summons for having assaulted his wife, Nelly Farrell, a well-known music hall artist. Mr W. H. Armstrong, solicitor, Renfrew- road, appeared for the complainant; and Mr Churchley for the defendant. The case, according to the evidence, showed a very unhappy ...

... VERDI'S 1NEW OPERA, (FRoM OUR SPECIAL COORESPONDENT.) MILAN, SuxDA. (r Last nigh4 was one whicfi Milan will never forget. From midday the crowd began to gather before the theatre gallery-door. As it grew it became necessary to form the line by posts and I cords, the voluntary prisoners with pockets-full of bread, oranges, and wine bottles thus being assured of precedence. The door was opened a ...

... Tnnr ART Or FIGHTING Tan GERMiAN Aarmy. By an ?? of the French Artillery. lVyrcn, Gereat Qrueerr-strect.-Tho author tells us that a short time previous to thle war with Germany ?? Frederick Charles published a work showing how the French were to b) attacked and vanquished. Re follows suit, and starts with the premise that sooner or later victory returns to the 'most valiant, thereby ...

... * HER. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS is, better than most men, in a position to make a considerable contribution to the history of the stage during as much of the latter half of the present century as any one is yet in a position to speak of with confidence. His experience as a first nighter has been great. He was not an absolute novice when he produced his History of 'the Opera in i862; and ...

... l - r BOSSINI'S MOSES IN EGYP'. l Rossini's Moses in Egypt was performed 1 by the Sacred Harmonic Society last night, and on the 19th prox. the same composer's Mesae Solenneli is announced at the Albert Hall. Whether this sudden interest evinced in Rossini, after a long interval of l neglect, betokens any genuine revival of his music, belongs to the realms of prophesy. It is, however ...

... The week before last we printed a letter signed An Unacted Dramatist, in which the writer gave the history of his vain attempts to get his pieces performed. Our correspondent's letter is worth reading because he appears to have conducted his operations with more perseverance and consistency than is found in the efforts of the majority of aspirants to dramatic fame. The most curious point ...

... The members of this club held their first smoking concert of the season on Thursday evening last, the chair being occupied by Mr Odell, who, with Mesars Charles Townley, E. Mahee', E. J. Whitewood, Percy Fitzgerald, Emmerson and Faushaw, Walter Grace, and J. E. Soden, contributed to an enjoyable programme. Good service was rendered at the pianoforte by Mr Alfred Smythson. Daring the evening ...

... THES TATURE OF TIQON. |. At a meeting at Toynbee MD1, Whitechapel, ?? evening Mr. H.. D. Traill delivered a lecture on The Liteuttre o Fiction. The Rev. S. A. Barnett, who resided in introducing the lecturer, sid it seemed to taet sulffident regarda notbeen . naid to fiction, whilat at the present time we seemed to ifrgt tt to fiction wee largely due the msang of thet Fbaracter of the nation ...

... Febrnaryis a spriagmontb, but the only things Ng that seem to realise the fact are the venturous e! sgreen shoots thatcomepeeping outofthe groundd, e Or at the end of lopg brown stems, bardy pioneers8 of the world of greenery that will flood the 41and two months hence. But even as Nature prepares her fresh and verdant garmenture for fi the cowing days of brightness so must those I who wish to ...

... Generally speaking the various Metropolitan dramatic establishments have continued to receive substantial support from the play-going public, and few changes of programme have to be recorded. With this week the Grand Circus at COVENT - GARDEN has closed for the season. Next week The Hobby-Horse, which has passed its hundred representations, will be with- drawn from the ST. JAMES'S to make way ...

... PROVINCIAL ThEATRICALS. (FROM Ox R OWN CORRESPONDENTS.U ABER DARE. TEmPERANCE HALL -On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Mr Charles Hermann produced Uncle Tome Cabin in excellent style. ABERDEEN. HER MArJSTc's TsIEATRE.-Lesseeo Mr W. M'Farland General Manager, Mr Reginald Hare.-Mr F. R. Benson and his company are paying their first visit to Aberdeen, and affording a large amzount of gratification ...