... MR. SYDNEY GRUNDY'S farce in three acts, entitled The Snowball, originally produced at the Strand Theatre some years ago, has been revived at the Globe this week with some success. Its story, which co ...

... THE ROYAL JUBILEE ANTHEM.-- Two musical compositions have been commanded for the Royal Jubilee. One is Mr. W. G. Cusins' Jubilee Cantata, which will be performed in the Queen's presence at a State ...

... MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.-- Three songs, written and com posed by Cotsford Dick, are pleasing compositions: they are respectively, In a Dream, A Lullaby of Love, and A Caprice; they are all of medi ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Of two songs written and com posed by W. C. Newsam and Claude Melville, Gwendoline and My Boyhood's Love, the former is by far the more pleasing and original it will be a favo ...

... THE revival of Mr. Tom Taylor's Lady Clancarty at the ST JAMES'S Theatre will be memorable as well for the powerful acting of Mrs. Kendal as for the beauty and completeness of the historical setting w ...

... GULES upon Gules is proverbially bad heraldry, and burlesque upon burlesque is obviously not less open to objection, on artistic ground. Ruddigore. at the Savoy, is avowedly designed to burlesque th ...

... STORIES of the stage are still largely in the ascendant; and The Rival Queens, by one so competent to deal with theatrical romance as Mr. John Coleman (3 vols.: Remington and Co.), is naturally a co ...

... MESSRS. FORSYTH BROTHERS.-- Six Vocal Duets for soprano and contralto, words by Edward Oxenford, music by Franz Abt, will prove a welcome addition to the schoolroom répertoire, as the words are suit ...