... . IT is a pity that Mr. Charles Thomas could not get his pretty little play, Lady Fortune, better cast than it is at the Globe, where it is now presented as lever da rideau before The Doctor. Lady Fortune makes an attempt to touch as well as to amuse its hearers, and for this purpose it is absolutely neces sary that its heroine, Miss Kate Cuuliffe, should win our sym pathy in her love affairs ...

... HAYAIARKET THEATRE. IT is a long time indeed since any lever du rideau equal either in dramatic interest or in literary charm to The Ballad Monger has been produced on our stage; and Mr. Beerbohm Tree is to be congratulated alike on his judgment and his good luck in securing it for his new venture at the Haymarket. Other versions of M. de Banville's Gringoire have, of course, been seen. M. ...

... . TnE third week of Mr. W. Freeman Thomas's sixth season of Promenade Concerts closed last Saturday with an excellent concert, whioh attracted a prodigious audience it being diffi cult to find even standing room for every visitor. The pro gramme contained works well worth hearing the ballet muBic from Gounod's Faust, the grand march from Le Pro phete, Sullivan's Graceful Dance from his ...

... . Under the skilful direction of Signor Arditi,the Promenade Concerts given recently at this theatre have proved worthy of attention. The first classical concert of the season was specially meritorious the performance including Mozart's E flat symphony, the Larghetto from Sphor's symphony in C minor, the lovely Scherzo from Mendelsrohn'a Midsummer Night's Bream music, the overture to Anacreon, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A SECRET FOE. A DEEP and profound know ledge of human nature is an essential qualification on the part of a playwright. Con struction and language count for something, but an ability to trace the hidden springs of thought and to show their logical outcome in action de notes powers of the highest order. I Bay logical outcome in action advisedly, because such action ...

... . Sophia returned to the 'Vaudeville for its four hundredth performance on Alonday last. Its hold over the public has proved far greater than the impression which it made upon its first night critics, and its artistic defects as an adaxitation of Fielding's famous novel may fairly be said to have been out weighed by its broad merits as an acting play. These merits, too, have been emphasised in ...

... 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 ...

... HEB AIAJESTY'S THEATBE. The Promenade Concerts recently given here have met with less patronage than they have deserved the performances of the orchestra, under the skilful direction of Signor Arditi, being well worth hearing. He has trained them to play with unanimity of expression, and to obey every indication made by then- accomplished director, who knows how to make the most of musical ...