... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ITALIAN OPERAS.-- London has this week narrowly missed the experience of three Italian operas competing against each other simultaneously. But Mr. J. H. Mapleson, who for a week had carried on a cheap ...

... THE prose stories of the late Philip Bourke Mars ton have been collected under the title of one of them, For a Song's Sake (I vol.: Walter Scott), by Mr. William Sharp, who has prefixed t ...

... MISS IZA DUFFUS HARDY has made a distinct advance in The Man She Did Not Marry (3 vols.: F. V. White and Co.). Able as her work has hitherto been, it has never been free from two faults-- one agains ...