... . THREE ELOCUTIONARY MANUALS.--The professors of elocution seem to give up the leisure hours of which their calling has almost a monopoly to the preparation of textbooks wherein the principles of the art find more or less satisfactory exposition. Three such works that have just been issued from the press, must be considered as fresh contributions to the already abundant literature of the ...

... THE HEREFORD FESTIVAL (From our special Correspondent). --The Three Choirs Festival is this year being held at Hereford. Everybody knows the origin of these Festivals; and their history, since the mee ...

... THE playgoers who have complained that the new piece at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre deals with an unpleasant theme, cannot at least pretend that they have been taken by surprise; for Mr. Philips, who in ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Youthful singers, as well as actors, are now so plentiful, that they run their elders very close. Little Red Riding Hood, an Operetta for Juveniles, libretto by George Cooper, ...

... JOSEPH WILLIAMS.-- Six Vocal Duets, music by Wilfred Bendall, words by various poets, ancient and modern, are well adapted for school-room study and drawing-room execution. No. I., Weep No More, i ...

... MESSRS. REID BROTHERS.-- Two songs which will take a good position in the drawing-room programmes are O that the Dove's Light Wings were Mine and Elysian Dreams, written and composed by W. Cartwri ...

... THE FUTURE OF ITALIAN OPERA.-- The Continental papers are amusing themselves in the dull season by discussing the future of Italian Opera. On all hands it is admitted that Italian Opera (we do not ref ...

... Messrs. Marriott and WilliaiMS. A group of seven songs for the drawing-room consists of Under the Shadow, a sacred canzonet, written and composed by C. S. Burton and Walter Hay, a song of a very good ...

... SOMBRE in tone and tragic in dénouement the new romantic play entitled The Ben-My-Chree at the PRINCESS'S ran no little risk of provoking that outburst of disappointment with which audiences in these ...

... MESSRS. PATERSON AND SONS.-- A series of very useful special publications issued by this firm consists of The Waverley Collection of Vocal Trios for Ladies' Voices, of which No. 1, Mid the Lilies, ...

... There is much very pleasant matter in Fasciculus a Song- Bundle, by H. Hailstone, M.A. (Cambridge J. Palmer). The author has improved greatly technically, whilst retaining his ...

... MESSRS. OSBORN AND TUCKWOOD.-- There is more than ordinary merit in a new song by the favourite composer M. Piccolo- mini, Eternal Rest (Requiem Æternam), the devotional words by A. Horspool; it is ...