... . In Current Cash, which has for the last few nights occupied the stage of the Surrey, the management has presented a piece already stamped with provincial Buccess. Current Cash is by Mr. C. A. Clarke, who has invented a story with much in it that is stale and common place, but one point that is fresh and interesting. This latter concerns the hero, who, when supposed to be dead, disguises ...

... . The World Against Her is the title of a domestic drama by Mr. Frank Harvey which has now come to town after a successful career in the provinces. It is certainly not the best of its author's plays, but at the Grand Theatre, Islington, it proves very fairly able to interest playgoers who are not too exacting in their dramatic requirements. The heroine who has the world against ner is Madge, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP. WHEN on my re turn from Shoe buryness late last Friday night I found my home coming unlooked for, my rooms in darkness and deso lation, my char woman undiscover able, and the only living thing to wel come me a discon solate Dandy Din mont sent to me that afternoon as a present, and left tethered to the door handle, which, as I subsequently learn ed ...

... PROFESSOR CROCKER'S troupe of educated horses deserve a more ample space for the exhibition of their intelligence and docility than they have found at the Avenue Theatre, but the unfavourable conditio ...

... MESSRS. MOUTRIE AND SON.-- Charles Kingsley's bright and spirited poem, When All the World is Young, has inspired more than one composer to set it to music. Sidney P. Fane is the latest who has take ...

... IN the good old days of rustic melodrama the Squire was invariably a wicked personage, who laid himself out to win the hearts of rustic beauties without any very serious matrimonial inten tions. Not s ...

... THE FORTHCOMING SEASON.-- Although the summer operas and concerts are only just over, the first notes of preparation for the musical season which is to come have already been sounded. The recess will ...

... THE PROMENADE CONCERTS.-- The Promenade Concerts are almost the only musical entertainments permitted during well nigh three months of the year by entrepreneurs to amateurs of the richest ciiy in the ...

... ALLAN QUATERMAIN, the continuation of Mr. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (I vol.: Longmans and Co.) is, though certainly not surpassing its predecessor in interest, or rivalling it in origin ...

... 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 ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- A veritable reminder of the flight of time is The Organists' Quaeterly Journal, which has arrived at Part 75, Vol. X. It seems but a few years ago since this unique pu ...