... THE adaptor of The Circassian at the CRITERION appears to have thought that the more foolishly his personages behaved the heartier would be the laughter evoked by their proceedings. This is a serious ...

... MR. J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON, in His Own Enemy: The Story of a Man of the World (2 vols.: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), gives the life history of one Frank Carless, who, from sheer weakness of character, ...

... 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 ...

... THE relations of the various personages in Mr. Jones's new comic drama at the VAUDEVILLE unquestionably do violence to ordinary standards of probability, and we fear it is not possible to acquit the a ...

... IT is more particularly in the case of a novel like Sarah Tytler's Logie Town (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) that the fate of a reviewer is hard. For this is a novel that invites, or rather demands, lei ...

... THE new comedietta entitled L'Indecis, in which M. Coquelin played the part of the hero at the ROYALTY last week, is but a trifle, a mere duologue, in fact, showing how a bashful and undecided gentlem ...

... LITTLE JOSEF HOFMANN.-- The pianoforte recital given by little Josef Hofmann at St. James's Hall on Monday was to have been his last. He was to have sailed for New York after a recital given at Liverp ...

... 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 ...