... III. THE road to learning is certainly made attractive enough nowa days by the numerous books conveying instruction in the most popular and inviting form. The charming views of British ...

... ŒDIPUS TYRANNUS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (From our Special Correspondent).-- The Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, performed in Greek, with Dr. Villiers Stanford's original music, by members of Cambridge ...

... 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 ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- Another of those bright and cheery little humorous part-songs, which are quite a speciality of Alfred C. Caldicott, Mus. Bac., Cantab., and are so well adapted for the comi ...

... . MR. GRUNDY'S adaptation of Haroun Alraschid takes its title from its hero's imitation of the proceedings of the Caliph in The Arabian Nights. This hero is a young husband named Hummingtop, who in Mrs. Hummingtop's absence from home escapes the eye of Mrs. Gillibrand, his mother-in-law, by taking nocturnal strolls incognito. During one of those risky but not vicious expeditions Mr. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MISS ESMERALDA. IN sitting down to notice Miss Esmeralda, a New and Original Melodramatic Burlesque in Two Acts, written by Messrs. A. C. Torr and Horace Mills, and produced at the Gaiety Theatre by Mr. Charles Harris, I am tempted to digress at the outset. I know that I usually do so, but never mind that. The by path into which I feel inclined to wander on this present ...

... 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 ...

... . WITHOUT being acquainted with Le Voyage en Caucase, to which Mr. Brougliton is confessedly indebted for his fantastic comedy The Circassian, one cannot tell how far he is to blame for the feeble superstructure which destroys the point of the comical opening situation. But it is very certain that he and the French authors between them have made nothing at all of their extravagant plot. Their ...

... 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 ...

... . M. Jui.es Rivieue, the well-known composer aud orclic. conductor, lias taken the musical direction of a scries promenade concerts at. the Japanese Village, Knightsbri g j j uud has secured the services of a band numbering fifty c Mm performers, in addition to well-known and popular vMUWj The i pening concert on Saturday last was ivcR atteuded, the audience appeared to be gratified with the ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. AT THE MELBOURNE CUP. (Concluded.) Paget looked at the clock. They'll be starting soon, we'd better go up into the stand to look at the race. Shan't we go back to the drag? I asked, feeling a rather rueful hankering after the dainty girls who had made my drive to the course so pleasant. Oh, no, he replied; you'll see much better in th) stand. Besides, if we ...

... . MR. J. A. CAVE began his management of this once famous theatre with every promise of success last Saturday. The house has been furbished up generally, and supplied with a new act drop; whilst the prices are lowered to the standard of a sixpenny pit. The piece so far presented is not a new one, having been already tried a few months ago at the Elephant and Castle Theatre. It is called ...