... THE first impression left by Edna Lyall's new novel, A Hardy Norseman (3 vols.: Hurst and Blackett), is one of wonder that anybody so fortunate as to be born in Norway should ever leave it under any ...

... DR. DABBS'S play of modern life, brought out at a matinée at the CRITERION last week, with the title Her Own Witness, presents in a new form the old notion which served the librettist of Bellini's L ...

... 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 ...

... nnnvsnv^x r7-7\ Xu sic) ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Mr. Augustus Harris is in negotia tion for the production at Covent Garden, next year, of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. It is thought that no difficulty w ...

... WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-- On Monday next, by permission of the Dean, a service in the Latin tongue will be held in Westminster Abbey, probably for the first time since the Reformation. The service will be ...

... JOHN Blockley. A dramatic cantata which is worthy the attention of small choirs, amateur and professional, is Vortigern and Rowena, words by Edwin E. Griffin, music by E. H. Birch, Mus. Bac., Oxon. T ...

... THERE has been an unusual dearth of new plays of late, a cir cumstance which must be attributed to the exceptional prosperity of theatrical enterprise. Why think of a new bill, when the old bill is fi ...

... Messrs. Beai. and Co. A song which will produce a favourable impression wherever it is well sung is Some Day, But Not Yet, words by Miss Hassell, music by Walter Wesche. A pleasing love-song is Thou ...

... THE comedietta entitled Caught at Last, which now precedes The Prima Donna at the AVENUE, has been discovered to be identical with a little piece published some time in a volume of Drawing Room Plays ...

... T heAtK.es VA '.'V A 1 T THE scenery and costumes of La Tosca at the GARRICK Theatre are expected to be more than ordinarily striking and picturesque. The action of the story passes at Rome and Naples ...

... Hippophagy Hippophagy is extending considerably amongst the working classes of Berlin and Vienna. I ully seventy horses are slaughtered daily for food in the German capital, the sale of beef decreasin ...

... T heAtRes Pi The new burlesque at the ROYALTY unfortunately presents a rather plentiful lack of fun, nor could the vivacity and experience of Mr. Arthur Roberts suffice, on the first night, to redeem ...