... MR. CARTON, who is joint author with Mr. Cecil Raleigh of the new romantic drama with which Miss Agnes Hewitt has reopened the OLYMPIC, is an actor of some experience, and The Pointsman is essentially ...

... Is there any mortal in existence who has never desired the power of lifting the veil that hides the future? Probably not one: so that Mr. E. J. Goodman, in the novel entitled Too Curious (I vol.: Be ...

... . We recently took occasion to contradict the reports that a six weeks' season of Italian opera, at theatre prices, had been arrarged to take place at Covent Garden, under the management of Signor Lago. We are now in a position to state, on the best authority, that Signor Lago has entirely abandoned the idea of an autumnal season in London, and has departed for St. Petersburg, where he will ...

... . MR. JOHN A. STEVENS, the great American author, actor, and manager, who has come to us in A Secret Foe, seems to deserve a heartier welcome than he obtained on his appearance at the Opera Comique the other night. If the Mastodon were to return to our midst he would receive attention as a curiosity, even if he were not hailed as a useful addition to our fauna, or as a pleasant domestic pet. ...

... . Mlle. Vanoni, who, on Monday liBt, made a highly suc cessful debut at the Alhambra, has rapidly won popularity in France, Icaly, Spain, and elsewhere on the Continent, and is likely to achieve similar successes during the limited stay which she is enabled to make in London. She is a well- trained vocalist, and although her solos are of the comic kind, her singing is worth hearing. Her ...

... Joseph Williams. A pathetic song, words by Hugh Con way, music by the late J. P. Knight, is Love Must Wait the compass is from C below the lines to F on the fifth line. From Henii Roubier come four br ...

... . THE classical concert given last week at Covent Garden pre sented many attractions, and its merits were appreciated by a very large audience. It was pleasant to see the amphitheatre and gallery crowded by enthusiasts, who never quitted their seats until the classical first part of the concert terminated; pleasant to observe how rapt was their attention during the performance of such works as ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIO. DEVlt CARE3F00T. IN course of a fairly long experience of the acted drama, I have noted two diametrically opposite tendencies on the part of play-writers equally carried to excess. The one is the tendency to tell you too much, and the other that to tell you too little. There are authors who insist upon explaining to you a great more than you really care a jot about ...

... . THE promenade concerts given at Her Majesty's Theatre, under the management of Mr. J. H. Mapleson, have not been largely patronised by the musical public; possibly because the programmes have been chiefly devoted to the lighter kinds of music, to the exclusion of those more sterling works for which there is a large demand amongst the music-lovers of the metropolis. At the moment when we ...

... ^usi^ mMt THE WORCESTER FESTIVAL.-- This year it is the turn of Worcester to receive the visitors to the Festival of the Three Choirs. The London orchestral rehearsals were held at St. George's Hall l ...

... . i That any entertainment is better than cloture is presum ably the opinion of Mr. George Eiwarde3 in filling the gap between Mrs. Brown-Potter's departure and Esmeralda's ariival, with Fun on the Bristol. In this delectable work Mr. J. F. Sheridan hai appeared many hundreds of times, and has no doubt been playing in it ever since he was in this country at the Olympic, five years ago. Mr. ...

... . A POOR and unpleasant play saved by spectacle, seemed to be the verdict generally pronounced on Pleasure at Drury Lane on Saturday night. Such at any rate appears the fair interpretation to be placed upon what we may call the mixed reception accorded the piece, which aroused little interest in its opening scenes, was cheered to the echo during its sensation scenes and was greeted with a ...