... MR. TERRY has opened his new Theatre in the Strand, not with any new piece, but with much that is novel in the way of arrange ments for securing the safety and comfort of his patrons. The house itself ...

... ALLEGRA, by Mary West (2 vols. Fisher Unwin), begins with the vising of the Milanese in 1848, and covers the whole lime that elapses until the coining of Garibaldi and the battles of Magenta and So ...

... . MR. FREEMAN THOMAS may be congratulated on the most successful Promenade Concert season ever known. He may also be specialty praised for his successful endeavours to establish his Wednesday Classical Concerts in the favour of musicians and of cultivated amateurs. The programme pro vided at the classical concert of last week would have done credit to the Philharmonic Society, and it is ...

... . The successful 1 -entree of this wonderful boy. at the Crystal Palace 011 Saturday last, has already been mentioned. Similar success attended his recital at St. James's Hall last Tuesday, when I10 executed tho following programme, to tho delight of a large and -brilliant audience 1 .--Sonata Patbtftitpxc Tloctboven. 2.- n. 44 Giguc Bach. Sonata Pastorale Scarlatti. c. 44 Variations Handel. ...

... . These delightful and instructive concerts will recommence 011 Monday, October 24th, and will be suspended duriug tho usual interval, from December 19th to January 7tli. Twenty- one concerts will bo given, and twenty Saturday concerts, and the musical prodigy, Josef Hofuiann, will delay liis visit to America in order to play at tho concerts on Mondays, October 21th and 31st. Amongst the ...

... . Like and Unlike. A Novel. By the Author of Lady Audley's Secret, Vixen, Mohawks, &c. London: Spencer Blackett, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street. The latest production of this indefatigable writer shows not the least symptom of failing strength, long as the list of her books now is. On the contrary, she is as fresh and vivacious as ever, andif Like and Unlike is not among the very best of her ...

... . It would be too faint praise to say that the artists above named did their work well. It is only just to them to say that they proved themselves artists of far more than average ability, Mme. Néruda appears to play more skilfully, and with increased power of expression, every year, and nothing in its way could be more delightful than her execution of the violin solo by Ries. The Romance was ...

... THE SULTAN OF MOCHA. MISS LYDIA THOMPSON may be congratulated on the success which attended the opening performance last week of her first season as manageress of the Strand Theatre, which has been tastefully redecorated under the superintendence of Mr. E. W. Bradwell. She has long been identified with comic opera, and chose for this occasion Mr. Alfred Cellier's Sultan of Mocha, originally ...

... END OF THE RECESS.-- A time-honoured proverb tells us it is the darkest hour before the dawn, and it is perhaps because the regular London season will open within a few days that the present week has ...

... A VILLAGE TRAGEDY, by Margaret L. Woods (r vol.: Bentley), is one of the saddest stories we have read for a long time, and it is so well written as to make the impression it leaves all the sadder. I ...

... Messrs. Boosey and Co. The Cavendish Music Books continue to make steady progress, and take the lead amongst cheap and excellent publications. No. 102 contains sixteen popular songs, Orat ...

... . NO season could begin much more prosperously than that commenced on Monday night at the Royalty by Mr. Mayer, who puts forward the most interesting series of French per formances that any autumn has offered for a good many years. One may perhaps doubt whether M. Coquelin, fine comedian though he is within certain limits, will prove quite so popular as a star as he was when a member of a ...