... . NOT even Ouida in her most fanciful illustrations of the vices of the fashionable world and the demi-monde has ever evolved a romance quite so crude and silly as that introduced by Miss Kate M. Forsyth in The Tigress. This play is under stood to be a version by Mr. Ramsey Morris of a novel called Crucify Her, which in spite of its serious title must we should say be a very comic story ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE SHAUGHRAHN. WHEN we have seen one of Boucicault's Irish plays we have seen a good deal of the others. There is much in common in the plots, construction, and general treatment of The Shaughraun, The Colleen Bawn, and Arra-na-Pogue. Still, they are all capital pieces of their kind, and the sameness of their general effect docs not prevent them from being indi vidually ...

... MAEJORIE. A NEW comic opera in three acts, written by Messrs. Lewis Clifton and Joseph Dilley, composed by Mr. Walter Slaughter, and entitled Marjorie, was produced last week at the Prince of Wales's Theatre with considerable success. It is said to have been written more than two years ago, and would have been brought before the public ere this, but for the unexpectedly long run of Dorothy. ...

... . From Pekin to Calais by Land. By H. DE WINDT. With Illus trations and Map. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited. 1889. Would you care to do it again? a friend asked Mr. de Windt's companion on his return to England, after making the journey described in the title of the book, and the emphatic answer was, Not for ten thousand pounds A new narra tive of this expedition need scarcely be expected ...

... GT; AND THEATRE. THERE is a good deal of clever work in Forgotten, the new drama written for Miss Genevieve Ward by Mr. Frankfort Moore, hitherto known, we believe, chiefly as a journalist and author of boys' story books. His play, if not very sympa thetic, is decidedly interesting, and might have held its own before an audience much more exacting than that before which it was produced the ...

... 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 ...

... . THE performance of The Merry Wires of Windsor and Gringoire at the Haymarket on Saturday was attended by a large and enthusiastic audience which recognised fully the really re markable improvement of Mr. Beerbohm Tree's tour dee force as the fat. knight. As the starveling ballad monger he has always been picturesque and to the point; but his Falstaff was at first rather wide of the mark. Now ...

... . Dihino the putt week Mine. Sarah Bernhardt has appeared at the Lyceum only 011 those alternate nights not occupied by performances of Italian opera. Next week she plays every night, adding Adrienne Lecottvreur and Fedora to the series of revivals. The impersonation presented by her last Monday is one of the most familiar, and, in its way, most successful of her efforts. Many delightful ...

... . WITH the present week the current musical season will close, and music will be conspicuous by its absence from metropoli tan concert rooms for some time hence. After an interval of a fortnight, Covent Garden will be reopened by Mr. Freeman Thomas for his eighth series of Promenade Concerts, andabout the same date, or soon after, the rival Promenade Concerts at Her Majesty's Theatre will ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITia OUR FLAT. MR. EDOUIN was not as successful as he might have been at the Strand. It is true that one or two of his productions were not perfection, but by comparison they were no worse than the farcical comedies around, and certainly the acting of them was generally very creditable. I am glad to see that he appears to have made at all events a fair hit at the Opera Comique ...

... THE OPERA.-- The Italian version of Die Meistersinger is definitely announced to be produced at Covent Garden on Saturday of this week. The opera has been for some time past in active preparation, and ...

... Messrs. B. Mocatta and Co. Three songs of a plaintive type, albeit they will find universal favour when well sung, are Unrevealed, written and composed by Brunetta and Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff, for ...