... . Among the Colonels and Cowboys. Narrative of a journey across the Prairie and over the Black Hills of Dakota. By WILLIAM CONN. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Walsh, St. Paul's Churchyard. 1887. A book in which cowboys are prominent personages comes aonositely at the present time, when Buffalo Bill and his attendants are to the fore, and so many people have either seen the personages ...

... . COVENT GARDEN, THEATRE newly furnished and renovated at great expense, presented a cheerful aspect on Tuesday last, when a large audience assembled to witness the opening per formance of the season. For this occasion Donizetti's master piece, La Favorita, was chosen, and the cast was in almost all respects a strong one. In the character of Fernando a triumphant rentrée was made by Signor ...

... . UNDER the joint management of MM. Carl Rosa and Augustus Harris, Drury Lane Theatre reopened last Saturday, when the English opera season commenced with a performance of Carmen, conducted by Mr. Rosa, who was enthusiastically applauded when he entered the orchestra, and at the close of the opera. The fine quality and numerical strength of the chorus were evidenced in the National Anthem, ...

... . THE English Comedy Company began its season at the Strand Theatre on Monday last with a satisfactory per formance of a very interesting play. We are not quite sure whether, as a matter of fact, London playgoers have not of late had a little more old comedy than they want; and this may perhaps prevent Messrs. Conway and Farren from obtain ing the full encouragement that they deserve. But ...

... AMARYLLIS AT THE FAIR (1 vol.: Sampson Low and Co.), is one of those idyllic pictures of country life with which its author, Mr. Richard Jefferies, of The Gamekeeper At Home, has become identified ...

... OUT OF TUNE, by Lewis Armytage (2 vols.: Swan Son nenschein), deals with the life of a wonderful violinist, named Romanelli, who, we are told in the preface, is the prototype of Paganini. We shoul ...

... GREAT interest is felt in Mr. Irving's appearance in Macready's famous part of Werner, at the LYCEUM, on Wednesday afternoon next. Lord Byron's tragedy has no very remarkable elements of popularity, a ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Signor Lago opened Covent Garden for the season on Tuesday night with La Favorita, Signor Gayarre once more playing Fernando. The Leonora was a new comer, Mdlle. Medea Mei, a la ...

... THE OPERA.-- At present the only opera season in London is that with which the name of Mr. Carl Rosa is identified. Mr. Rosa's chief production so far has been Mr. Cordcr's Nordisa, which we fully des ...

... . Moths is not a very good play, nor is Vere Herbert a par ticularly good character for a young actress like MiBB Kenney, Most of the Eentiment borrowed by Mr. Hamilton without leave from Ouida is false, and most of what is not actually untrue is decidedly unhealthy. Vere, it will be recollected, is the ingenuous and unconventional daughter of the fast and wicked Lady Dolly, who makes her ...

... . IN perusing Mr. Augustus Harris's prospectus, it is im possible not to be struck with the illustration it affords of the irony of fate. It was at Drury Lane Theatre that the experiment of German opera for the English was tried on a grand scale four years ago. At that time we were assured by certain partisans of Wagner and his school that Italian opera was moribund, and would within ...

... . MR. F. C. GROVE, who it will be recollected was the coadjutor of Mr. Herman Merivale in the authorship of Forget me Not, has made out of the novel, As in a Looking Glass, a much better play than might have been expected. He has not purified, and is perhaps wise not to have tried to purify, the foul atmosphere which hangs round nearly all the dramatis persona. He hides none of the secrets ...