... . 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 ...

... ^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 ...

... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.-- A pretty and simple duet for soprano and contralto, written and composed by H. S. D'Arcy Jaxone and Vernon Rey, is Night and Morning. By the same poet and composer is ...

... DIANE DE BRETEUILLE, by Hubert E. H. Jerningham vol.: Blackwood and Sons), is one of the prettiest and most unsophis ticated love stories that we remember to have read-- it is so natural and naïve, ...

... THE NORWICH FESTIVAL.-- The twenty-second Triennial festival will take place at Norwich from October 11th to 14th, and the London orchestral rehearsals will be held on October 6th and 7th. It will be ...

... WORCESTER TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL (From Our Own Corre spondent).-- Last week a tolerably full description was given of the arrangements for the Worcester Festival which began on Tuesday last. It is a curio ...

... 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 ...