... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The Covent Garden season is now fairly started; yet another Royal Italian Opera (there is no copy right in the title) will begin at Drury Lane on Monday week, and Mr. Mapleson ...

... B. MALYON (GLASGOW).-- A very clever invention has been patented by Madame Bennett, a well known professor of music. The Self-instructing Key-board for Pianoforte, &c., specially designed for beginn ...

... OF THE JUBILEE.-- In the Jubilee celebration, music has hardly taken a very important part, although there has been plenty of Jubilee music. Sir Arthur Sullivan's Ode, written to Mr. Lewis Morri ...

... Alfred Hays. No. I. of W. Sterndale Bennett's edition of Mendelssohn's Pianoforte Pieces, carefully revised and fingered by his pupil, Arthur O'Leary, is Andante and Allegro, one of his most gracef ...

... . MR. J. H. MAPLESON, endowed with the buoyancy of a cork, was no sooner dislodged from the Royal Italian Opera than he commenced preparations for another operatic campaign at Her Majesty's Theatre, and last Saturday invited the public to witness Lucia di Lammermoor. The public made but a feeble response, and the theatre wore a cheerless aspect, but the musical forces exhibited no sign of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HELD BY THE ENEMY. I HAVE before this put forward the view that action is the strong point of a drama and suspense one of the moat powerful levers to move the feelings of an audience. If once these latter can be aroused to a sense of fidget as to what is to come next, the success of the piece is pretty well assured. And to the fact of this pitch of excitement being ...

... . Court Life in Eqi/pt. By Alfred J. Builer, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford Author of The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt. With Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. MR. BUTLER, as will be judged from the circumstance of his having written the book mentioned on the title-page, is an Egyptologist, and has had peculiarly favourable facilities for the compilation of his Court ...

... . At the Gaiety, where benefits for the principal members of the company are just now the order of the day, these enter tainments are noc only on the largest of scales, but generally comprise features of exceptional interest. Such, certainly, was the solid afternoon's enjoyment provided here by Mr. Charles Harris, who on Saturday last kept things going from one till nearly six. There were ...

... Jubii.ee Week, as was to be expected, has been almost entirely barren of dramatic events. The attraction of the decorations and illuminations and the preparations for Tuesday's grand ceremonial have i ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The performances at Covent Garden need not be alluded to at great length. On Thursday last week Lucrezia Borgia was performed, the heroine being Madame De Cepeda, whose voice no ...

... . Miss Florence St. John being unfortunately too ill to continue appearing in Madame Favart, that comic opera is now replaced at the Avenue by Indiana, a piece of very different artistic pretentions. The libretto, by Mr. Farnie, sets forth a somewhat complicated intrigue, in the course of which a young woman, who is disguised 1 or the purpose3 of the plot aa a young man, pretends in that ...

... . Two revivals of some interest have now been added to the répertoire of the English Comedy Company in The Hypocrite of Isaac Bickerstaffe, and The Busybody of Mrs. Centlivre. The performances, as a whole, have been Hardly equal to those of the better-known comedies presented by the troupe, but in each there are individual figures of high excellence. Such is the Dector Cantwell of Mr. Farren, ...