... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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, ...

... . 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. ...

... 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 ...

... . WITHOUT being acquainted with Le Voyage en Caucase, to which Mr. Brougliton is confessedly indebted for his fantastic comedy The Circassian, one cannot tell how far he is to blame for the feeble superstructure which destroys the point of the comical opening situation. But it is very certain that he and the French authors between them have made nothing at all of their extravagant plot. Their ...