... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . THOUGH the little theatre in Dean-street was well filled on Monday night for the commencement of Mine. Chaumont's season, neither attendance nor entertainment was equal to those which accompanied M. Coquelin's appearances. This, however, was not to be expected, for the actress, clever as she undoubtedly is, belongs to a school of art wholly inferior to that of the great comedian. What is ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS AT THE GLOBE THEATRE. THERE is a great deal of fuss being made just now as to what we may or may not do; also as to what we ought to do under the circumstances. On one side we are assured that as loyal subjects to the Crown and peaceful upholders of the Constitu tion it behoves us to occupy ourselves with our own affairs, and not to meddle in what does ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...