... 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. ...

... Pantomime at Covent Garden Theatre. Air. W. Freeman Thomas and Air. Purkiss are proceeding most actively with the arrangements for Jack and the Beanstalk, and several important matters were settled on Wednesday, such as .the placing of several thousand pounds in a bank to start with, and the engagements already made are numerous. A committee con sisting of Alessrs. Lewis Thomas, Lloyd, Crowe, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. PLEASURE. As I passed into Drury Lane Theatre the other evening in my captious capacity the police in spector standing in the entrance said to me with a smile, So you have come here for pleasure, sir? Whereat, living The pleasure displayed is, I fear, of an unnecessarily vicious order. Its character is only too plainly foreshadowed by the poster whereon Garrick between ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE BARRISTER. ROB Roy's purse. Readers of Sir Walter Scott may recall his description of the Highland outlaw's sporran, with its trick lock, secret spring, and concealed pistol barrel, arranged to discharge its contents into the body of anyone trying to tamper with it, and all, as he puts it, to secure a furred pouch which could have been ripped open without any ...

... . 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 ...

... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND Co.-- The summer holidays being over, poets and composers are settling down to work again with renewed vigour. Two pretty and sentimental love songs, music by R. B. A ...

... NOT long ago we noticed an Italian memoir of the present Pope. John Oldcastle's Life of Leo XIII. (Burns and Oates), with chapters contributed by Cardinal Manning, Rev. W. Anderdon, S.J., &c., is in ...

... . IT is of well-worn materials that Messrs. Manville Fenn and Darnley have constructed the new piece presented by Miss Melnotte at the Comedy, under the title The Barrister. Their construction is, however, sufficiently workmanlike to make their fabric hold well together, and sustain a very fair amount of interest. Of course we are, most of us, already familiar with the hero of farcical comedy ...