... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . A CHARGE of felony brought against a young lady staying in a country house and engaged to marry its future master does not, at first sight, look a very promising subject for a play. Such a girl could have no conceivable object in stealing her future mother-in law's bracelet, which, on account of its famous ruby, known as Heart of Hearts, is re garded in the family as a precious heirloom. ...

... . Comparisons, we know, are odious, but we also know that M. Coquelin, in coming before the London public in Le Juif Polonais, courted comparison with Mr. Irving in The Hells. Without, therefore, going very deeply into the subject, which would lead us into a disquisition upon the schools of realistic and imaginative acting too lengthy to be attempted here, we may note that M. Coquelin's ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...