... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The programme of the Promenade Concert given last Satur day at Covent Garden was mainly composed of repetitions of orchestral works produced earlier in the season, hut included one novelty a new waltz for choir and orchestra, entitled Home, and composed by Mr. Crowe. It contains some melodious passages, and was well executed by the orchestra and Mr. Stcdmau's choir, ...

... . Carina, a new comic opera, libretto by E. L. Blanchard and Cunningham Bridgman, music by Mme. Julia Woolf, was produced last week at the Opera Comique Theatre, and met with a favourable reception, although its success was frequently imperilled by the exuberant zeal of a most energetic claque. The plot is founded on that of Damaniant's play, Guerre ouverte; ou, Ruse contre Ruse, which was ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are some theatres which it is the fashion to look up to as very superior indeed. We approach them with reverence, we criticise them with awe. Now it is to the one actor or the one author there that we so humbly bend now it is the prestige of the site which overpowers us now we prostrate ourselves in dreadful adoration before the tremendous ...

... GLOBE THEATBE. True Colours is the name of a new first piece by Mr. J. P. Hurst, produced with fair success at the Globe on Monday evening. The little play is legitimately described as a comedy in one act, for it unfolds a neat miniature plot and keeps clear of the farcical alike in dialogue and action. Its weakness lies in its tendency to over-elaboration of story, and the rather rough and ...

... M„ p _ STB AND THEATBE. CHARLES THOMAS'S comedy The Paper Chase, presented by Mr. Lionel Brough at a Strand matinee the other day, de serves warmer Praise than is given to it when it is pronounced superior to the ordinary run of morning productions. It is, in fact, a merry and ingenious play, not, perhaps, particularly original in its plot and developments, but sufficiently fresh in its well ...

... PBINCE OF WALES'S THEATBE. MR. CAMPBELL RAE-BROWN did not manage to make much of the inspiration furnished to him by Lord Tennyson's Lady Clara Vere de Vere, a poem which in truth does not suggest a great deal of sustained dramatic interest. His notion seemed to be to provide the haughty damsel with an excuse for herrejection of herhumbly-born lover in the foolish andlacka daisical ...

... The Henry Irving Shakespeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall, with numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne. London Blaclrie and Son, 49 and 50, Old Bailey. 1S88. THE third volume of this work, which redounds so highly to the credit of all connected with it, includes Richard III., King John, The Merchant of Venice, and Parts 1 and 2 of Henry IV. No greater praise can be bestowed ...

... . As The Don, the piece by Mr. and Mrs. Merivale which was pro duced here on Wednesday, suits Mr. Toole and his company very well and amuses his audiences very much, there is little doubt that it will attract good houses for some time to come. To describe such a work, however, as a comedy-- for so the playbill has it-- is obviously incorrect. Moreover, if it is desirable that even in the ...

... . DURING the past month the weather has been of a nature to fully merit all that Sydney Smith said of our erratic climate, while it has, at the same time, served to form a bond of union between the votaries of nearly every sport and pastime. For three whole weeks have hounds been confined to kennel, and hunting men have been anxiously awaiting that telegram which should once more summon them ...

... -a x ew oratorio Dy an English composer can hardly fail to prove attractive, and a large audience assembled in St. James's Hall last week to hear the first public performance of JudUli, an oratorio in two parts, composed by Mr. Jacob Brad ford as the exercise indispensable to the obtaining of a Mus. Doc. degree at Oxford or Cambridge. Considered simply as an exercise, Judith althouglinot ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB. THE man who de sires a good play should certainly have no hand in adapting his own novel. It is true that Mr. Fergus Hume, the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, the story, called in Mr. Arthur Law to help him to produce the drama now played at the Princess's. But I fancy that had Mr. Hume left his share of the labour to some body else ...

... . THE change of programme at the Lyceum on Wednesday evening attracted a large audience in spite of the fact that no thing absolutely novel was put before the public. For our part we cannot but think it a pity that Mr. Irving did not see his way to a Shakespearian revival on his return; for the prettiness of The Amber Heart, and the picturesque melodrama of Robert Macaire, seem at best rather ...