... . Lena, the French adaptation of As in a Looking Glass, pro duced at the Variétés three months ago, and now set before an English audience at the Lyceum, is a very poor play, not for the most part very well played. Perhaps it is scarcely fair to judge it from its presentation on Tuesday evening, when Mme. Bernhardt was confessedly indisposed, and when the entr'actes were so outrageously ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE SHAH. WE are making a tremendous fuss about the Shah-- more than we did last time by a great way. This is not, however, because in the old days we loved him loss than now, but simply because, from various reasons, celebrity worship has taken a fresh departure altogether since he came before. The writers- up of literary club scandal, the authors of chit-chat in the ...

... . Mignonette, described in the announcements as a new romantic comic opera in throe acts, by Oswald Brand and Henry Parker (the book founded on a Bavarian legend) was produced at tho Royalty Theatre on Saturday last, under the direction of the composer: who had secured a capable orchestra and efficient chorus, and has evidently paid abundant attention to rehearsals. The mise en scene-- ...

... VAUDEVILLE THEATRE. The Love Story, a drama in four acts, by Sir. Pierre Leclereq, originally tried at a Strand matinée last May, has this week been revived in the afternoon at the Vaudeville, previously to a tour which has, we believe, been arranged for it by Mr. Charrington. The piece again impresses us as having alike the defects and merits of a young playwright's characteristic work. Of ...

... MONDAY POPULAB CONCEPTS. ST. JAMES'S HALL was crowded on Monday last, when Mme. Neruda (Lady Hallé), Miss Fanny Davies, and MM. Joachim, Ries, Straus, and Piatti were engaged for performances of the instrumental masterpieces included in the following pro gramme:-- 1. Quartett in B flat, Op. IS, No. 6, for two violins, viola, and violoncello Beethoven. JIM. Joachim, L. Ities, Straus, and Piatti ...

... IIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mn. J. H. Mapleson's American and other friends have rallied round him, and we arc assured that in his operatic speculation at Her Majesty's Theatre lie is being powerfully supported by American capital, t-lie administration of which will be controlled by Mr. 11. J. Leslie. Wo are also informed that the arrangements for the season are complete, and there is every ...

... . Although the fashionable rush for the French plays at the Gaiety will hardly begin until the advent of Mme. Bernhardt, Messrs. Abbey and Grau had not much reason for disappoint ment with the patronage extended 011 Monday night to their noteworthy enterprise. Whatever they may have in store for Miss Brandon, save for the melodramatic bitterness already alluded to, is a satisfactory Lady ...

... CHRISTMAS JSOOA'S I. THE harbingers of Christmas are upon us the books for gifts, the cards for friendly greetings at Yule. Every year the great mass of stories is more and more leavened by sound popu ...

... THE COMING CONCERT SEASON.-- The London musical season will commence next week, and on Wednesday little Otto Hegner announces the first of a series of four concerts, two of them being pianoforte recit ...

... Wheat. Wheat. He is a bold man nowadays who advises a farmer to grow wheat. Yet two well-known agricultural writers have, within the same week, and in obvious independence of one another, been found t ...

... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- A very useful work for the student is Twenty-four Exercises for Contralto Voices, composed by G. Tartaglione; they are intended to improve the hard tones, and to clear ...

... By the kindness of Dr. R. W. Felkin, of Edinburgh, we are enabled to give a specimen of Emin Pasha's handwriting. Con sidering the amount of toil and trouble thro ...