... PEINCE OF WALES'S THEATEE. IT is not a new idea in fiction that an innocent woman should from some cause or other dishonour herself by claiming to be the mother of another woman's child. The resource in this or that form has been utilised over and over again. Generally, however, there is some motive sufficiently strong to afford at least the appearance of an excuse for, perhaps, the most un ...

... B. Williams. A song which will add to the reputation of Felix Gerard, who has written the words, and Odoardo Barri, who has composed the music, is The Angel's Lullaby, a refined com position. An acco ...

... Benedictus, by the author of Estelle (2 vols. George Bell and Sons), is an able exposition of Jewish life in its thoughtful and introspective aspects, written in a somewhat romantic form. A cer tain ...

... Never, probably, since the days when Geraldine aroused the righteous wrath of Christopher North has a more ambitious literary attempt been made than by Mr. John Philipps Ems ...

... GAUL'S JOAN OF ARC.-- Mr. Alfred R. Gaul's new cantata Joan of Arc, originally produced by the Birmingham Festival Choral Society last autumn, was performed for the first time in London on Monday ni ...

... THE musical world gathered in great force at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre, on Tuesday afternoon, to witness the first per formance of a new play, entitled Tares, written by Mrs. Oscar Beringer, wife ...

... OLYMPIC THEATEE. To those who twenty-five years ago assisted at the first re presentation of Tom Taylor's Ticket-of-Leave Man, the revival on Saturday of the once popular drama, with Mr. Henry Neville in his best known impersonation, seemed a pleasant memory, only qualified by the unwelcome evidence of the re lentless march of time. There was the same theatre where for 400 nights a sympathetic ...

... THE LOVE THAT KILLS AT THE PBINCE OF WALES'S THEATKE. A description of tMs piece will be found in our Drama column. Our sketches show, principally, Yivette attemptmg to enliven the hero and, subordlnately, Alarc and an attendant shootmg in the marshes, the shepherd Baltazzar (Air. Julian Cross) and the idiot brother (Aliss Clara Jecks), Aletifio the rival (Air. Glen Wynn), the preparations ...

... PHI LHAR5IONIO SOCIETY. THE prospectus of the seventy-sixth session of this great society was issued this week, and will be perused with interest by all who wish well to English art. The Chauvinists who find fault with the Philharmonic Society for its introduction of foreign compositions and foreign artists appear to forget that England is but a small portion of musical Europe, and has only ...

... CArTAlN Norman's contention in his very readable Corsairs of France (Sampson Low and Co.) is that the thing wh ...

... . The proverb, Good vine needs no busli, might with slight alteration be applied to the 1 good music which Mr. Arthur Chappell supplies to the frequenters of his Popular Concerts. He has no need to puff his artists everyone knows that the music included hi his programmes is certain to be executed by performers of the highest rank, and when as on Saturday last so great a masterpiece as ...

... . Ar the eleventh of this interesting series of concerts the fol lowing programme was provided: 1. Overture to Byron's Man/red Schumann. 2. Concerto for Pianoforte in G (No. 4, Op. 5SJ Beethoven. Miss Fanny llavies. 3. Symphony in G minor Mozart. 4. Scena (The Defence of Earl Godwin before the AVitan) from the opera Harold. Geo. Marshall-Hall. (First time of Performance..) Mr. Santley. 5. ...