... 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 ...

... . The Witch, Mr. Mursliam Rac's adaptation of the popular German drama Die Hc.ee, is not a play that we should ourselves, have expected to prove so much to the taste of the public as it does at the St. James's, now occupied for a brief season with its representation. It has a strong sceno between a couple of sisters, the nobler of whom has been jilted for the weaker by a knight who is false to ...

... MUSIC. JENNY LINT). A GREAT singer; a woman endowed with intellect of no common order heart and hand ever open to the appeal of melting charity; admirable in private, as in public life has been taken from us, and it is with pleasure, not with melancholy, that I comply with the request of the editor of this journal, that I should furnish some account, of her Career with some personal ...

... . 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 ...

... . Tt is not easy to imagine the circumstances under which a revival of Shed's five-act tragedy, F-radne, could nowadays be profitable. Pretentious efforts of its kind soon have their day there is nothing enduring about them in the absence of genuine dramatic inspiration and perfect literary form. But there would he somo excuse for a passing experiment with a typical production of the palmy ...

... ADELPIII THEATRE. THE hundredth night of The Bells of Haslemere was duly celebrated at the Adelphi on Monday last, when it was made clear that the interest in this capital melodrama is as yet by no means on the wane. It is the more pleasant to be able to congratulate authors, actors, managers, and others concerned in this lasting success, because the piece is so eminently healthy in motive, ...

... II. M.S. PINAFORE. THE most interesting of recent musical events was the revival of the Gilbert-Sullivan opera, H.M.S. Pinafore, on Saturday last. Wheen originally produced at the Opera Comique Theatre, 25th May, 1878, it was accepted as the best work up to that time by the able collaborators to whom the public were already indebted for Trial by Jury and The Sorcerer. It ran for a very long ...

... J. O . MR. GEORGE CONQUEST and Mr. Henry Spry have provided in A Dead Man's Gold the great drama which is usually the feature of the Surrey programme in the autumn. If the great ness of a drama be measured by its wealth of material, then is A Dead Man's Gold great indeed. Its second title is The History of a Crime; but its criminal proceedings are so varied and numerous that this small ...

... . The Henry Irving Shakespeare. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited. by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall; with notes and introduction to each play by F. A. Marshall and other Shakespearian scholars, and numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne, Vol. I. London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50, Old Bailey, E.C Glasgow. Edinburgh, and Dublin. 1888. NUMEROUS as are the editions of Shakespeare ...

... . THE 1887-8 season of this society opened brilliantly last week, St. James's Hall being densely crowded, and the pro- gramme very attractive. First came Signor Bottesini's de- votional oratorio, The Garden of Olivet, originally produced at the. Norwich Musical Festival, a few weeks back. Signor Bottesini, who conducted this first metropolitan performance of his work, was warmly welcomed by ...

... . Tiie chamber concerts given at the Continental Gallery, hew Bond-street, by this association of eminent artists, merit the attention of musicians and amateurs, to whom they furnish opportunities of making acquaintance with many fine works written for wind instruments by great composers, and too little known at present. At the second concert, the programme included a quintett for flute (Mr. ...