... MR. GILLETTE'S military drama, brought out in a tentative fashion at the PRINCESS'S Theatre on Saturday afternoon, proved to be a far better specimen of dramatic work than the average of American piec ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITia JACK IX TIIE BOX AT THE STRAND. I KNEW-- and dreaded it. It haunted me on hoardings. It pursued me on posters. It beset my path in the shape of playbills. It peered at me from shop- windows in the guise of chromo litho- g'r a p h y It rose up before me like a spectre from out the adver tising columns of newspapers, and lurked like a snake in the grass amidst paragraphs of ...

... MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER has come, and has been seen, but can hardly be said to have conquered. She does very well for a débutante, but then débutantes are obviously not in their proper places when they appear in prominent parts at first rate theatres. Her choice of a character does not seem to us a very happy one, for Anne Silvester, the ill-used heroine of Man and Wife, exhibits little ...

... . Muldoon's Picnic is said to have been played over five thou sand times by Mr. and Mr3. Patrick Murphy, who are now pre senting it for a fortnight's run at the theatre once known as Astley's. We can quite believe it, for there is a large public on the other side of the Atlantic which prefers the typical variety play to any other form of dramatic entertainment. A musical absurdity of this kind ...

... MESSRS. POHLMANN AND SON.-- We can cordially recom mend The Discontented Maidens: a Dramatic Cantata for Female Voices, libretto by William Tirebuck, music by Alfred F. Christensen, to the heads of ...

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... SINCE our last notice of Mr. Mapleson's campaign at Covent Garden three operas have been added to the repertory of the season. ...

... Joseph Williams. From hence comes a batch of useful pianoforte pieces for the schoolroom. Most original of the group is Tarantelle in A, by Arthur W. Briggs, which is decidedly showy. Les Noces d'Or ...

... MESSRS. PATERSON AND SONS.-- Four of the latest issues of The Strathearn Collection of Part Songs are arranged in their present effective form by W. Hume. They are respectively, Flowers of the Fore ...

... THE RISE OF VOCALISTS' SALARIES.-- Madame Patti will in a few weeks return to this country after a seven months' Trans- Atlantic Concert and Opera Tour, during which it is estimated she has cleared up ...

... GOUNOD'S MIRELLA.-- Although it has frequently been promised, M. Gounod's pastoral opera has, we believe, not been heard in London for twenty-three years. It is, however, announced to be revived by ...

... . Tiiebe wero two very good reasons why if the management] of the Avenue Thoatro determined upon a revival of corn' opera in lieu of extravaganza-pantomime a welcome change .Madame Favart should have been chosen. In the first pla*; the piece is one of Offenbach'sbrightest and most characteris works in the second Miss Florence St. John was happJ available for the part which she originally ...