... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... l '7V7\ K -Xusic) i 'k J* THE OPERA.-- Since Mr. Mapleson has discarded the more hackneyed operas of the older repertory his enterprise has been rewarded by a succession of crowded houses, particularl ...

... AT the VAUDEVILLE, where Mr. Buchanan's clever adaptation of Tom Jones still holds on its prosperous way, a new poetical comedietta by the same author has been produced by way of intro ductory piece ...

... fit COURTLEROY, by Anne Beale (3 Vols.: Hurst and Blackett), is a good, sound, wholesome piece of work, without any very distin guished merit, but certainly affording no scope for positive fault fin ...

... THE puff preliminary has doubtless its advantages, but it is on the whole a dangerous mode of awakening expectation. Had Mrs. Brown-Potter, the American beauty and favourite of society, quietly take ...

... THE FLOWER AND THE SPIRIT, by Frederika Macdonald (2 vols.: Blackwood and Sons), opens with some verses about the pale blue flower of romance, followed by others about the spirit, which leads to i ...

... MR. TRISTRAM'S drama of modern Russian life with which Mr. Beerbohm-Tree has opened the Comedy Theatre in the double capacity of manager and leading actor is a clever play, but its cleverness is unfor ...