... Basic THE OPERA SEASON EVERYTHING is now prepared for the commencement of the opera season at Covent Garden on Monday. The house has been completely redecorated, and various alterations have been made ...

... LET not the experienced reader who has had more than enough of the stale and dismal reiterations of fiction dealing with Ireland be deterred by its title from reading The Nugents of Carriconna: A Sto ...

... MARJORIE.-- Since the comic opera Marjorie, by Mess. Clifton, Dilley, and Slaughter, was first produced at a matinée last July it has undergone considerable alteration. The close of the second act a ...

... Theatres LIKE Garrick in Sir Joshua's picture, of which a sketch stands at the head of the programme of the GARRICK Theatre, Mr. Hare appears to stand hesitatingly between the muses of tragedy and com ...

... Iluval Hotcs THE SEASON IN the towns it has been foggy, in the country rather dark than foggy. But sunshine has been conspicuously absent. Even the competing watering-places, whose sunshine records of ...

... Steamboats will soon be Running on the Sea of Galilee, as strange a sight in the Holy Land as the forthcoming railways to Jerusalem and Damascus. Steamboats will soon be Running on the Sea of Galilee, ...

... IJcfo iltusir THE LYRIC MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY Two lively songs, which will prove antidotes to more serious ditties, are 44 At the Sign of the Ship, a nautical yarn, written and composed by A. Vald ...

... tttusic EASTER is the dividing line between the winter and the summer seasons, and it will accordingly bring a brief holiday, broken only by about a dozen sacred concerts to be given in various distri ...

... linval Hotcs THE SEASON AUGUST has not been the bad month it threatened to be at one period of its career. Probably an average amount of corn has been secured, and often in very fair condition. The no ...

... THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-- The winter orchestral concert season closed at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, when, owing to the absence of Mr. Manns in Scotland, the post of conductor was taken by Mr. C ...

... MUSIC A DOUBLE OPERA SEASON A VERY short time ago it seemed doubtful whether we should have any autumn opera at all in London this year. Within the week, however, circumstances have changed, and a dou ...

... th£rese raquin ZOLA'S Thérèse Raquin, which was acted by the company of the Independent Theatre at the ROYALTY last week, and has since been reproduced at the same house in a less tentative fashion, ...