... LONDON is just now not quite so completely denuded of theatrical entertainments as Paris, where, owing to the hot weather and the fire panic, only one theatre, and that a house of the third rank, stil ...

... . IT can hardly be maintained that the performances of Ia Dame aux Camélias and Frou-Frou at the Lyceum have come up to the standard of the rendering of Théodora, with which the French play season commenced here. The company porting Mme. Bernhardt seems much more at home in strongly accentuated melodrama than in romance of a less highly- coloured type: whilst for comedy its capacities are ...

... . IF Miss Violet Melnotte should succeed in her latest venture at the Comedy Theatre it will be in spite of the fact that she has chosen for revival a comedy of exhausted interest, and has presented it at the least attractive time of the year for play- going. We do not in any way underrate the cleverness of Mr Burnand's comedy, The Colonel. It turned to new and excel lent account the framework ...

... . THE distribution of prizes at the London Academy of Music Soirée at St. George's Hall, on the 21st of July, was rendered interesting by the presence of Miss Ella Russell, who kindly undertook to present the students with the gold, silver, and other medals, certificates, &c, awarded. There was also a concert, in which several of the more advanced students dis tinguished themselves and did the ...

... . THE last week of the interesting season of old comedy at the Strand Theatre was marked by the addition of a new member to Messrs. Conway and Farren's company. This was Miss Janet Achurch, a young lady who recently distinguished herself by her impersonation of the heroine in Devil Caresfoot at a trial matinee. Miss Achurch played Lady Teazle, a part to which, with all her promising ...

... THE LONDON MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY.-- A very pathetic song, written and composed by Gertrude F. Stuart and Lady Borton, is The Golden Gate.-- Good practice for the schoolroom will be found in Sket ...

... MR. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S Sarracinesca (3 vols.: Black wood and Sons) is a study less of Roman life than of Roman character-- of course, we are speaking of modern Rome. The hero is to a certain exten ...

... . Shores and Alps of Alaska. By H. W. SETON KARR, F.R.G.S. With Illustrations and Two Maps. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 188, Fleet-street, E.C. ALASKA has by no means been neglected by writers of books. On our shelves we have four large volumes which deal to a considerable extent with Alaska-- Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States of North America-- as well ...

... . A FINE performance of Gounod's Faust at Drury Lane on Saturday last brought the Italian opera season of 1887 to a close. Until next Saturday week, when the sixth season of the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts-- under the spirited management of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas-- will open, there will be a complete suspension of musical entertainments, with the exception of the operatic performances at ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT WIMBLEDON. 3844403. Twenty-one with a miss! Confound that miss! It just meant all the difference between £7 10s. and an electro-plated fish slice, originally valued at thirty-five shillings, and now considerably deteriorated-- from a pawn, able point of view-- by the inscription recording my success, which I was vain enough to have clapped on to it. Yes, I won a fish ...

... THE PAST SEASON.-- The musical season is now over, and it is probable that very few will regret the fact. That season has been one of the longest and busiest on record, but otherwise there is comparat ...