... . No contrast could well be broader than that between the second and third plays in which M. Coquelin has appeared during his present stay at the Royalty. M. Paul Delair's L'Ainé, with its strained sentiment, it elaborate analysis of motive, and its laborious development of character, is as essentially a work of to-day as Don César de Bazan, with its dashing incident, ingenious intrigue, and ...

... . We refrain from any attempt to describe the plot of The Old Guard, further than to say that it is built on the not strikingly original basis of a change of Fraisette for Murielle by a nurse, the loves of Gaston for the originally high-born lady, and of Caramel for the lowly born lady, and of a couple of marriages after the rightful heiress (Fraisette) of the Marquis D'Artemare is restored to ...

... . AT the fourth Saturday Concert of the current series M. Manns conducted a creditable performance of copious selec tions from Mozart's masterpiece, II Don Giovanni, in honour of the first production of that opera, at Prague, October 29th, 1887. The cast on Saturday last was as follows: and it will be observed that only one of the artists (Mlle. Gambogi) had ever been on the operatic stage. ...

... . No 1 was admirably played, and a special welcome was given to Signor Piatti, whose performance of No. 4 was a genuine treat. Miss Lena Little sang her solos with unfailing taste, and was skilfully accompanied by M. Frantzen. Master Josef Hofmann was again the cynosure of neighbouring eyes, and struggled bravely with the digital difficulties of No. 3, which he played with remarkable skill, ...

... . Editha s Burglar, the little piece which now precedes Shadows of a Great Cilg at the Princess's, is pretty enough and louehing enough in its idea, but rather tedious and foolish in its execu tion. Editha is a girl of seven years old, whose mother is dead, and who has been adopted by a kind lady, who at the time of the action is lying ill upstairs. Into the room where Editha is left by ...

... . In Danger, the new play tried at the Vaudeville on Tuesday morning, possesses elements of considerable strength, but the story unfolded in its three acts is far from being a pleasant ones. The action commences in a continental gambling hell, where a couple of English girls, having lost their father suddenly, are forcibly detained to act as decoys or something worse. Their anxiety to leave is ...

... Bin. Charles Du Val lias returned to town, having com pleted a professional tour of .Ireland. His appearances in Dublin, Belfast, and Cork have been completely successful, and during Ms provincial tour lie lias visited almost every part of tlic country. He contemplates a tour of the East to include China and Japan, and will probably return by the now Canadian Pacific route from the latter ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- The Lord Reigneth (Psalm xciii.) has been well set to music by Robert Parker Paine, with a baritone solo, three choruses, and two symphonies; it will prove a welcome ...

... OPERA COBIIQUE. .\ni piece sillier and duller than that wlncli, under the title Bridget O'Brien, Esq., bored a long-suffering audience at the Opera Comique last Saturday, has not for a long time been produced in London. It is a sort of continuation of Fan on the Bristol, with all the fun left out, and it speedily resolves itself into a study of the idow O'Brien ill her capacity of mother- in ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE OPERA COMIQUE. THERE are many monkey stories of home and foreign manu facture. Of all these there is one that has always commended itself to me by the deep insight into human nature revealed by it. The real hero is less a monkey than a gentleman who hap pened to be joint owner of one of those entertaining animals and of a house with a back garden abutting on to the ...

... JENNY LIND.-- We can do little more than briefly announce the death, from paralysis, at Malvern, on Wednesday, of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, leaving further details for a more convenient occasion. ...

... FREQUENT change of programme is the order of the day at the Royalty, for the public who can enjoy French plays is in London necessarily limited in number, and therefore soon exhausted. L'Ainé, in whic ...