... SHE is as skittish as a grass-widow, observes one of the cha racters in the new comedy by Messrs. Hamilton and Quinton, brought out at the PRINCE OF WALES'S on Tuesday afternoon, to which the answer ...

... LONDON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.-- On Wednesday Mr. Henschel directed the last of the London Symphony Concerts to be given before Christmas. Herr Bernhard Stavenhagen-- fortunately for the audience, in his m ...

... THE prominent feature in the theatrical programme for the Christmas holidays is the renewal of the long-suspended rivalry between Drury Lane and Covent Garden in the matter of pantomimes. Report speak ...

... JAMES HEPBURN: FREE CHURCH MINISTER, by Sophia F. F. Veitch (2 vols.: Alexander Gardner), is an unquestionably able and even powerful novel. It has a distinct and lofty motive, the power of unselfis ...

... LOYALTY THEATRE. Mit. Mayeu last week changed his plan of campaign, and discarding French drama opened a short season of French opera with a representation of that tuneful and lively work, la Perichole, written by Mil. Meilhac and Halevy, composed by Jacques Offenbach, and originally produced at the Theatre des Varietes, Paris, October 6th, 1868. The cast provided at the Royalty was as ...

... . THE tenth Saturday Concert of the Crystal Palace series was given last Saturday, when the following programme was pro vided:-- 1. Concerto in G, for Strings J. 3. Bach. V. Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra, No. :i Beethoven. Aria Let the dreadful engines Barcell. A. Symphony No. 7, in A Beethoven. ,V Hungarian Ithapsody, No. IS (First Time) laszt. (i. Traiimc (ltcverie), for Strings ...

... THE IIECKMANN QUARTETT. This excellent body of elianibcr-niusic players ga\e tliird- and, for tlie present, tlieir last concert at Princes Hall last week, tlieir programme including No. 1, Quartett, No. 6, in C Mozart _ No. 2, Quartett in A minor, Op. 41 'aU,!,! No. 3, Quartett in 0 sharp minor, Op. 131 Beetho, This interesting programme was marvellously well executed, to tlie gratification of ...

... TIIE STROLLING PLAYERS. THE smoking concert of the Strolling Players' Orchestral Society, given last Saturday at Princes Hall, attracted a large gathering of aristocratic amateurs, and was patronised by T.R.H. Prince Henry of Battenberg, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Teck, the Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Lathom, &c. The orchestra played with complete success the instrumental ...

... . On Saturday lust the late Sir George Macfarren's first and best oratorio, St. John the Baptist, was performed at St. James's Hall by students of the Royal Academy of Music, over which institution the lamented deceased had watched during the last twelve years of his life with a zealous and unremitting devo tion which raised the academy to a higher pitch of prosperity than it had ever before ...

... . AT the concert given last week under the able direction of Mr. Henschel, an interesting novelty was found in Richard Wagner's first and only symphony, composed by him when in his nine teenth year, first performed (1832) at Prague, and subsequently at Würzburg and Leipsic. It was placed in the hands of Mendelssohn (at that time director of the famous Gewandhans Concerts), but was heard of no ...

... . WE have already furnished a biographical account of the late. Mme. Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt's career in England and on the Continent, and have great pleasure in adding some in teresting particulars of the Sweetish Nightingale's successes in America. Our American contemporaries frequently do us the honour to reprint the critical and other articles published in our columns. We rarely quote ...

... . Tiie Eighth Saturday Concert of the current season at the Crystal Palace presented an important novelty, and was in other respects interesting. Handel's Concerto in B flat, No. 7, for strings, was warmly welcomed, and was followed by Schu mann's pianoforte concerto. The pianoforte part was played by Mme. de Pachmann with but moderate success. As Miss Maggie Okey she bade fair to reach a high ...