... MTJSICJ. SPOHR'S CALVARY. THE Novello Oratorio Concerts, established last year, have taken their place amongst the most valuable of our musical institutions. During the current season modern works of great importance have been for the first time presented to metro politan audiences, and on Tuesday last a welcome addition was made to the Novello concert repertory, in Spohr's second oratorio, ...

... . IT was a very odd dramatic mixture that was presented at a tentative matinée at the Royalty last Tuesday, under the title, The Professor's Wooing. The play is classified as a comical pastoral, and has enjoyed a considerable run on the American continent-- which latter fact only shows how different is American taste from English. A good notion underlies the piece, which has for its hero a ...

... . It was not to he expected that a successful sensation such as that achieved by the great Ileniey Regatta or tank scene last October at the Standard would be dropped after the com paratively short run allowed to it by the exigencies of panto mime. The moment accordingly that Christmas entertainment here is done with, Mr. John Douglass revives A Dark Secret, the drama into which Henley Regatta ...

... DRAMA. OPERA COMIQUE THEATRE WHERE the performance of old English comedy is concerned, the presence of a fashionable audience cannot make up for the absence of a pit. The players want the sympathy of out spoken playgoers to react upon them. They need hearty laughter rather than languid applause, no matter how dis tinguished be the applauders. Now, Miss Vaughan's patrons at the Opera Comique on ...

... . NO one would think from merely reading a précis of the plot of Jack in the Box that in this piece Messrs. Sims and Scott have provided Miss Fannie Leslie with a variety drama of the approved pattern. The main thread of the story is hung upon a murder committed before the play begins, which murder is supposed to implicate one Edward Moreland, the prodigal son of a rich Australian. Edward ...

... Joseth Williams. A pleasing song of medium compass is More and More, written and composed by William A. Aikin. Precisely the same may be said of Recollections, words by L. M. Martin, music by G. Be ...

... DR. JOACHIM.-- Dr. Joachim has returned to England, and on Monday he made his reappearance at the Popular Concerts, lie led Antonin Dvorák's Sextet for strings, which in 1880 first introduced the co ...

... ALL persons who take interest in what is going on in our theatres have learned by this time that the animal who gives the name to the new piece entitled Dandy Dick at the COURT THEATRE is not a foppis ...

... MESSRS. J. B. CRAMER AND CO.-- Two very pathetic songs, written and composed by Lord Henry Somerset, are, Ah, Never More, and O Loved and Lost; both are refined, and will take a good place in a co ...

... THE STORY OF PHILIP METHUEN, by Mrs. J. H. Needell (3 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), is unquestionably a novel outside, and for the most part above, the common order. Its materials are excellent, and t ...

... THE death of Mrs. Henry Wood has reminded more than one writer of the hardships to which novelists are exposed at the hands of the playwrights. East Lynne is perhaps the most popular of all stock piec ...

... MUSIC. ALBERT PALACE. A NOVEL experiment was made at the Albert Palace on Saturday last, when Handel's Messiah was substituted for the miscellaneous entertainments usually provided here for Satur day night visitors. Oratorios have been given at the Albert Palace occasionally on Good Fridays, and on other suitable days, but never until Saturday last as an appeal to popular musical taste. The ...