... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. THERE came a draught at times upon my seat in the Princess's Theatre which was almost a gale. Whether any body had left a door open or loft out a side of the theatre I do not know. But as the annoyance was only intermittent I should say that someone was to blame, and I wish that he would be more careful next time. I quite pitied the thinly-clad ladies ...

... CHARLES WOOLHOUSE.-- There is originality and refinement both in words and music of Loyal and True, written and com posed by Sidney Lever and S. Emily Oldham; this song is of medium compass.-- Two o ...

... THE production of a new comedietta and the first appearance of Miss Norreys in Two Roses at the CRITERION imparted a renewed freshness to the bill of the Criterion on Monday evening. The comedietta, w ...

... IN The Frozen Pirate (2 vols.: Sampson Low and Co.) Mr. W. Clark Russell has to some extent made a departure from his ordinary methods; and has, in so doing, thrown overboard (the term is specially ...

... CKITEEION THEATKE. There is not so much as there well might be in the new comedietta Why Women Weep which on Alonday evening pre ceded Two Moses at the Criterion. The little story, the scene of which is laid at Alonaco, introduces us to two pairs of young married people, Air. and Airs. Chandos and Mr. and Airs. Dudley. Airs. Chandos was a rather strong-minded widow when her husband married her ...

... vnnllsh in the JUcst Indies; or, The Bow of Ulysses. By Tuies Anthony froude. vv 11-n illustrations engraved on by Gr. rearson, alter drawings oy tne Autnor. .London minims. Green, and Co. 1888. A BOOK from so keen an observer, so comprehensive a scholar, and so delightful a writer as Mr. Froude cannot be other than welcome, and what more picturesque theme than the West Indies could be desired ...

... . THIS society resumed its operations last week, and gave a meritorious performance of Rossini's opera, Mosè in Egitto, which-- Bowdlerised and fitted with a pious' English libretto by the late Mr. Arthur Matthison-- was ten years back produced by the Sacred Harmonic Society as an oratorio under the direction of Sir Michael Costa. To adaptations of this kind few objections can be made. ...

... . MR. WILSON BARRETT has commenced at the Globe a series of Wednesday matinées to be devoted to the revival of the more ambit ous of his Princess's productions. The first of these is Hamlet, which somehow seemed oddly out of place on the stage lately occupied by The Private Secretary and now nightly used for erection of The Golden Ladder. The best however, had been done with its limited ...

... . A SECOND experience of Fascination-- a play named on the lucus a non lucendo principle-- quite fails to explain why Air. Thomas Thorne thought it worthy of transfer from the experi mental Novelty to his popular stage. Vaudeville audiences have shown long ago that they do not object to the mixture of farce with comedy, hut this is something very different from the amalgamation of serious ...

... . Undeii the direction of Mr. Bamby the Royal Albert t Choral Society last week gave an admirable performance ot t dramatic legend in four parts entitled by its author, Bee Berlioz, Im Damnation de Faust, but announced by tli e 60C' J -simply under the misleading title, Faust. Had Berlioz ehosem title he would not have re -tricted himself to the narrow 11 embraced in Ids work. What he wished ...

... LONDON SYMPHONY CONCERTS.---- Three more or less un familiar works were presented by Mr. Henschel at the concert on Tuesday night. Bizet's Roma suite was given twice in London in October, 1880, and ha ...

... THE BURNING OE THE GRAND THEATRE. FAIRCLOUGH FUND. AVe have already acknowledged subscriptions to the amount of £47 17s. 6d. for the fund for the benefit of the young stable man, Henry Fairclough, whose gallant conduct in endeavouring to rescue the horses under his charge, at the imminent risk of his life, has led to his permanent disablement, one of his legs having been amputated, Since our ...