... OFFENBACH'S LES BRIGANDS.-- The production at the Avenue Theatre on Monday night of a hitherto unperformed ver sion of Offenbach's opera touffe, Les Brigands, might have passed almost unnoticed had ...

... wwwy A' £|TMe Re Apr. IF the number of cookery-books published can be taken as any guide, there should have been, within the last decade, a vast improvement in the cooking of the middle and lower mid ...

... M>/A: THE story of the war between Will and Destiny, called Passages in the Life of Sir Lucian Elphin, of Castle Weary (2 vols.: Edin burgh, David Douglas), is a piece of strikingly good work-- so g ...

... MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO.-- One of the most useful and admirably compiled works of the period is A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Sir George Grove, D.C.L., LL.D., which is just now bro ...

... ENGLISH OPERA.-- The provincial company directed by Mr. J. W. Turner concluded a fortnight's engagement at the Princess's Theatre last Saturday. It would be hardly fair to criticise the performances f ...

... T.YBIC THEATEE. Love's Trickery, an operetta in one act, written by Cunningham Bridg man and composed by Ivan Caryll, was produced at the Lyric Theatre last Saturday with complete success. The action takes place in the drawing room of Lady Daffodill (Miss Augarde), who awaits a visit from the Count Pauliteckuick, a German nobleman, who, in return for his generous conduct in releasing the late ...

... . The successful comedy, Our Flat, was removed from the Opera Comique to the above theatre on Monday, and never went better. In fact we do not remember it to liave been so successful on any previous occasion. Sir. Willie Edouin has somewhat elaborated his character of the speculative theatrical manager, aud now plays it with remarkable humour. The stage business has also been improved, and the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JESOP'S FABLES. THE half-dozen actors who, whether they are in a good piece or a bad one, can generally depend upon bringing a fair audience together-- are all more or less mannerists. Mr. Irving, Mr. Toole, Mr. Terry, Mr. Willard, Mr. Terriss, Mr. Penley-- it is impossible to get away from the individuality of the performer whatever the part which he may appear in. Nor ...

... COYENT GARDEN PROMENADE CONCERTS. MR. FREEMAN THOMAS had every reason to be gratified at the success of his opening concert on Saturday last. Long before the hour of commencement (7.30 p.m. on Saturdays; 8 p.m. on other days) every free seat in the theatre was occu pied, and every inch of standing room in the upper regions. An hour later, the boxes and dress circle were filled, and the so ...

... . MISS MARION LEA demonstrated one or two things very satisfactorily at her matinée last week at the Avenue. But she failed to show any very good reason why if she wanted to play Dumas' Mile, de Belle-Isle, she should not present one of the already numerous versions of that play, amongst which may be mentioned Mr. A. Shirley's Reparation A Night in the Bastille (in which, if we mistake not, ...

... . Uncles and Aunts, after a lengthened career, due entirely, or almost entirely, to the comic individuality given by Mr. Penley to one of its characters, has at last been removed from the programme at the Comedy, where it was replaced by a new piece from the now fertile pen of Mr. Sydney Grundy. About the title of this novelty, Merry Margate, there was a pleasant suggestion of fun, hearty if ...

... OLYAIPIC THEATRE. The Silent Witness, the first new play presented by Mr. John Coleman during his management of the Olympic, is a curious survival. It is a reminiscence of the days when all earls were prima facie wicked, when prison-governors were necessarily brutal, when convicts were allowed to impress sympathetic warders with their eloquence, when comic scoundrels were always Irish, and ...