... . Nothing could well have been more successful lhan the beuefi;; of Miss Farren at the Gaiety on Monday afternoon, when an audience representing over £400 closely packed the theatre. Miss Farren's Bhare in the performance was a triple one. She appeared as the wretched Smike in the second act of Mr. Halliday's version of Nicholas Nickleby, as the lad Sharpus in Our Clerks, and as Tilburina in ...

... . A. SOUND and vigorous performance of that capital comedy, The Road to Ruin, was that given last Saturday afternoon at the Strand Theatre, where the attendance proved that Messrs. Conway and Farren's excellent revivals are attracting the public attention that they honestly deserve. It was, no doubt, a serious drawback that Mr. Conway's own share in the repre sentation should be contributed ...

... . 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 ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIO. MRS. BERNARD BEERE, AS IN A LOOKING GLASS. SOME years ago there was set down for trial in the Divorce Court a case in which there happened to be no fewer than five co respondents. One of these was a baronet, holding an official appointment under Government. A late member for a Kentish borough, who enjoyed the two-fold honour of being a post captain in the Navy and a bar- ...

... . WE should not have thought that under any circumstances there was needed a fresh translation of Messrs, Von Moser and Schönthau's comedy, Krieg un Frieden, which has been already introduced here in Mr. Hamilton's Our Regiment. The humour of the piece is essentially local, so the action does not bear transportation any more than the characters can be acclima tised. We have nothing to ...

... . The 100th performance of Mr, A. Goring Thomas's opera Esmeralda took place at Drury Lane last week, and attracted a large audience. It is truly a delightful work, and improves on acquaintance. The title-character is one of the very best in Mine. Georgina Burns's extensive repertory, and on this occasion she surpassed herself. Her singing was of the most polished kind, fresh, piquant, and ...

... . THE summer concert season has set in with its usual severity, and every week from thirty to forty concerts are given in London. Most of them are of the familiar benefit concert type, and present no claims for special notice. Amongst recent concerts of a more elevated character, mention may be fitly made of the following:-- M, St. Saens' Recital. This took place at St. James's Hall last ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...