... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE FORTHCOMING SEASON.-- Next Saturday fortnight, the 8th of October, the London musical season will begin with the resumption of the Saturday Concerts at the Crystal Palace. A fortnight later the Mo ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...