... 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 ...

... DRAMA. OLYMPIC THEATRE. THE society of young players calling themselves Dramatic Students did something more than a creditable piece of work in their performance last Tuesday of A Woman Killed with Kindness. They afforded the first opportunity enjoyed by playgoers for some two hundred years of making the stage acquaintance of Heywood's beautiful and touching tragedy. Readers of the Elizabethan ...

... 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 ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HARD HIT. IT is all very well to be wise after the event-- to claim to have prognosticated an inevitable failure, or to add one's tributary brick to the laudatory pile erected over a secured success. A writer who has leisure to watch the course of events and nous to gauge the issue of paper before penning a criticism has a better opportunity of posing as a correct ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. ITALIAN OPERA dies hard, Four years ago we were informed by some of our German friends that two years later there would be no performances of Italian Opera in London, and that its place would be filled by German Opera. People should never prophesy unless they know, and in this instance the prophecy was ignominiously contradicted by events. German Opera lived through ...