... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Mr. Irving closed the Lyceum doors on Wednesday, and took advantage of the opportunity to fulfil his promise to give a reading of Hamlet at the Birkbeck Institution in aid of its building fund. The Il ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND CO.-- A welcome addition to the répertoire of soprano and contralto singers is Twenty-Four Duets for those voices, composed by Franz Abt, and published in two books. Altho ...