... THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.-- Whether the Welsh were wise to hold their Jubilee Eisteddfod in London at all is a matter quite open to question. The very charm of these gatherings lies in their essentially n ...

... iSDuH I PROMENADE CONCERTS.-- The Promenade Conceit season at Covent Garden continues successfully. It is alleged that 8,000 people paid a,t the doors last Saturday night, and although doubtless the n ...

... IT is infinitely refreshing to meet with a novel like Mr. H. S. Cunningham's The Cœruleans (2 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), and we only wish that the author of Chronicles of Dustypore and Wheat and ...

... The adaptation of Mr. Rider Haggard's Dawn, entitled Devil Carcsfoot, which we noticed on the occasion of its recent production at a morning performance, has now taken formal posses sion of the stage ...

... . THIS theatre was opened last Saturday for the first of a series of Promenade Concerts, under the management of Mr. J. H. Mapleson, with an accomplished musical director and conductor in Signor Arditi, who has engaged an excellent band, including twelve first violins, ten second violins, nine violas, seven violoncellos, eight double-basses, and a full complement of brass and wood, wind and ...

... . WHEN last month Messrs. Haddon Chambers and Stanley Little ventured upon a matinée for the introduction of their new play, Devil Caresfoot, it was pretty generally admitted that their production was above the level of the ordinary afternoon performance. The piece had real stuff in it; its characters had, in several cases, genuine dramatic life, and many passages of its dialogue were ...

... COVENT GAEDEN CONCEBTS. IF it be true that confidence is a plant of slow growth, it is equally true that it is a plant which is not easily uprooted. The attendance of over 7,000 visitors at the opening concert of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas's Sixth Promenade Concert Season on Saturday last proved that there is no abatement of the public confidence in his energy, liberality, and good taste. These ...

... . During its long career at the Vaudeville Our Boys was so Exhaustively discussed that its present revival at the Criterion demands little more than a chronicle. The raiton d'etre of the reproduction is of course supplied in the Perkyn Middlewick of Mr. David James, an embodiment which may be said to give the keynote cf the whole comedy. The humour of the late Mr. Byron was for the most part ...

... . MR. FRANK HARVEY'S last week at the Grand Theatre was chiefly occupied with a revival of Life and Death, a drama adapted by him from Germaine, a play founded by MM. Cremieux and D'Ennery upon a peculiarity of the French marriage law. It seems that in France it either is or was the case that an illegitimate child can be made legitimate by the marriage of one of its parents, and this although ...

... MR. GEORGE GISSING'S Thyrza (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is characterised by all the special merits which have already given its author a high place among an increasing circle of readers. He wr ...

... rfrH 'AxV// 7 :'fls P k^/V/WA^sssVS] U>-5B*J 1 THE problem of our Imperial policy on the American continent is carefully considered by Sir E. W. Watkin, M.P., in his Canada and the States: Recollecti ...

... THE Earl of Desart's Lord and Lady Piccadilly (3 vols. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), is unquestionably a clever book' though certainly nighty and frivolous enough, and with a dash of impertinence in i ...