... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...