... 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 ...

... 1IER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Undeterred by the failure of a recent scries of promenade concerts at tliis theatre, a second series has been organised, and the first concert of the current season was given on Satur day last with considerable success, the theatre being crowded. In the new undertaking greater spirit is shown than was exhi bited in the previous attempt. A band of sixty-five per formers ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE. I THINK I have before in these columns referred to the well-known story of the two broom dashers who were trade rivals. I will briefly recapitulate its leading facts. One of them asked the other how it was he always under sold him. I can't think how you can do it, he observed, with confiding candour, for I steals the heather and I steals the ...

... 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 ...