... 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 ...

... DRAMA. GLOBE THEATRE. A BRIGHT, airy, but very unsubstantial entertainment is that now provided at the Globe with the revival of The Snow ball and Crazed, and the production of a pleasant new comedietta, After Many Days. The pièce de résistance is, of course, Mr. Grundy's comedy, a more or less faithful, and decidedly dexterous version of Oscar; ou, le Mari qui Trompe sa Femme, one of the few ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. THE year 1887 promises to be a memorable one in the annals of Italian Opera in London. We wrote, last week, the public estimation of Italian Opera will this year be sharply tested by two successive seasons of it at Covent Garden. Since then we have learnt that Mr. Augustus Harris intends to give, immediately after the Carl Rosa opera season at Drury Lane, a Royal ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A HOME OF REST FOR HORSES. ON this present occa sion the standard head ing to this weekly series of articles is scarcely justifiable save on the broad principle that the flag covers the cargo whatever it may be composed of. For the plain fact is, that I am not going to criticise at all, but simply to appeal. As it happened, I cast about for something whereon to exercise my ...