... . THE bookmaker who gives Mr. J. W. Pigott's new comedy its name proves to be a very entertaining if not particularly life like creature, at any rate when interpreted as he was on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Edward Terry. He is a vulgar, good-natured fellow, who, coming suddenly into a title and a fortune, finds himself thrown into intimate association with the Earl of Harborough, a newly ...

... . IF Mr. Richard Mansfield has shown nothing else at the Globe, he has displayed the courage which deserves success. Selecting a Shakespearian drama admittedly somewhat heavy, unwieldy, and unpopular, the young American actor has attempted to so arrange and mount it, and to so impersonate its chief character, as to make it repay the elaborate trouble and large expense involved in its ...

... The daring experiment of performing this opera in a concert- room, not only without scenery, dresses, and decorations, but with a solitary pianoforte in substitution of a very full orchestra, commenced 011 Monday last, when Act 1 of the work was performed in this fashion at the Portmau Rooms, with Friiulein Cramer (Isolde), Miss Margaret Hoare (Brangane), and Messrs. Nicholl (Tristan), ...

... . WHATEVER may be the objections to the plot of La Traviata, it cannot be denied that Verdi adorned its unsavoury theme with some of his most melodious and affecting music, and it attracted a large audience when given last week at the Royal Italian Opera; the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their two sons, being present, in addition to a large gathering of the aristocracy. The unhappy ...

... . At the fifth concert of this famous society, the following varied and interesting programme was provided Part I. 1. Overture, Kozze di Figaro Mozart. 2. New Symphony, in 0 0. Hubert H. Parry. (First time of performance. Conducted by the Composer.) 3. Wolfram's Fantasy, Blick ich umher \Tann- hauser) Wagner Herr Carl Meyer. 4. Concerto, violin and orchestra Mendelssohn. M. Ysaye. Part 11. ...

... . Tlie success which attended tbe exclusively Wagner pro gramme provided at the third Richter Concert led to a copious provision of Wagnerian music at the fourth concert, which attracted more visitors than St. James's Hall could accommo date. It will be seen from the subjoined programme that tlio concert was restricted to orchestral music. A great disappoint ment awaited the audience, many of ...

... Messrs. J. and J. Hopkinson. Messrs. J. AND J. Hopkinson. Wherever a good sacred song is inquired for, it is sale to recommend unaries Lrounoo s .-v\e Maria a meditation adapted to a second prelude of ...

... Messrs. Marshal!. Messrs. Marshal!. A pretty waltz-song is Roses, Red and White, written and composed by H. L. D Arcy Jaxone and W. M. Hutchinson.-- Two fairly good songs, music by E. St. Ouentin, ar ...

... iPy&iP PAST FORGIVENESS? (2 vols.: Bentley and Son) is, beyond question, the best novel which Lady Margaret Majendie has yet written. She has been fortunate in her theme, and she has done it justice ...

... . Lieut.-Col. Ixxes's Doncllan, as tried at tlio Strand a few days ago, taught a very useful, though perhaps somewhat obvious, lesson. This was to tlie effect that an exceedingly iqteresting criminal trial may make an extremely uninteresting play. The once famous case of Captain Doncllan, who, in 1781, was hanged for poisoning his brother-in-law, Sir Thco- dosius Broughtou, affords 110 doubt ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. NOWADAYS. Nowadays was withdrawn last week to make way for a series of revivals. I do not know whether the new piece was a success or not, but I hope it was. Whatever its defects in a sporting and in a dramatic sense, it had one feature which made it worth seeing. Mr. Wilson Barrett-- who, by the way, this time had the authorship of the play all to himself-- appeared in ...

... . WITH all its sensation and grim motive, Proof has many good qualities. Its passion is real and earnest, and. in reviving it, Miss Grace Hawthorne makes a bold bid for popular sym pathy. Proof is by no means, however, tho novelty one would make it. It is eleven years since it was first played at the Adelphi, but it has been frequently seen of late at houses of humbler caste and less favoured ...