... DRAMA. COURT THEATRE. THERE can he no question as to the cleverness of Mr. Pinero's new play, Dandy Dick, produced last week with such marked success at the Court Theatre. Some of us may wish that a dramatist so fertile and witty as this would widen his sphere of observation, and would give us studies of men and women as they are instead of whimsical caricatures. Others may regret to see the ...

... music. NOEDIS A. EVER since this year commenced there has been excitement in musical circles throughout the civilised world respecting the production of Verdi's Otello, produced last Saturday at La Scala, Milan, in presence of an audience gathered from all quarters of the globe. The opera will probably be the crown ing effort of a long and splendid career, but it should not be forgotten that ...

... IT is a hopeful sign of the possible revival of dramatic literature, properly so called, for which all true lovers of the Stage have long sighed, that some of our best-known po ...

... . Horse-Boeing in France a. History. By Robert Black, M.A. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Riving- ton, 188, Fleet-street. MANY English sportsmen are still accustomed to speak with something of contempt about racing in France, and no doubt to English eyes odd things are to be seen on French race courses. It is, nevertheless, a fact that the animal which not a few judges esteem the ...

... DRAMA. PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE. MESSRS. CELLIER AND STEPHENSON'S Dorothy differs from most of the comic operas of the day in that it bears hearing over and over again. Its delightful music grows upon the ear, and the listener is pretty sure to like it a second time better than he did the first. It was a pity on Saturday last, when a good many people had visited the Prince of Wales's Theatre ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MYNHEER JAN. THE pen, it has been remarked, is mightier than the sword. In some instances though, the pencil is far superior to the pen. For example, a single glance at the illustra tions adorning this page will enable the glancer to seize in stantaneously and without difficulty on the idea which I am slowly and painfully striving to put for ward in the accom panying ...

... . A NEW and original comic opera m three acts, entitled Mynheer Jan, written by Harry Paulton and Mostyn Tedde, music by Edward Jakobowski, was produced at the Comedy Theatre on Monday last, with those signs of success which are almost always visible on first nights of new pieces, unless they prove to be downright failures. The new opera was produced last week at Birmingham, where it met ...

... . THE second half of the Saturday Concert Season at the Crystal Palace opened on Saturday last with an interesting programme, comprising Mr. Mackenzie's dramatic cantata, The Story of Sayid, and Mr. C. Villiers Stanford's choral setting of the Poet Laureate's stirring poem, The Revenge, a Ballad of the Fleet. Both compositions were successfully produced at the Leeds Musical Festival in October ...

... _ 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 ...

... VERDI'S OTELLO.-- We understand that there is little or no chance of a performance in London of Verdi's latest opera for some time to come. No presentation of the work in the English language will p ...

... MESSRS. J. CURWEN AND SONS.-- There is much sterling merit in The Victorian Age, a cantata for the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, the libretto by F. C. Weatherly, M.A., the music by J. L. Roeckel. ...

... Two volumes of stories, and those translated from the German of an author whose name, to say the least, will be new to most English readers, suggest unlikely material for the most prominent position i ...