... THERE is not much of substance in the French piece on which Mr. Comyns Carr has based his comedy entitled Nerves at the COMEDY Theatre, but what there is has been adroitly turned to account, and the w ...

... . THE most important event in the history of the current operatic season at Covent Garden was the production on Saturday last of Signor Mazzucato's Italian version of Wagner's comic opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The performance commenced at the unusual hour of 7.30 p.m., and by that time the amphitheatre, galleries, and slips were crowded to the utmost possible extent. The stalls and ...

... 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 ...

... . Audi alteram partem is a meritorious maxim, and as our columns have contained unfavourable notices of the system-- adopted by the University of Trinity College, Toronto-- of granting degres of Mus. Bac and Mus Doc. in absentiâ, to English musicians, we feel bound to take notice of the defence made by that college. We have received a copious volume, with the compliments of the Rev. Dr. Body, ...

... EOYAL ITALIAN OPEEA. MR. AUGUSTUS HARRIS may be congratulated on having this season introduced two artists of great value to London music- lovers. Of Mine. Tavary's qualifications as a dramatic soprano full particulars have already appeared in our columns. We have now to record the genuine success won by Mlle. Renée Richard, a mezzo-soprano who has for the last twelve years enjoyed great ...

... . A LARGE gathering of these choirs assembled at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, and performed remarkably well a number of choral works, under the direction of Mr. MacNaught, and also Dr. Stainer's Daughter of Jairus, under the composer's direction. Over 2,000 choristers took their places on the Handel orchestra, and this the seventh annual festival of the choirs was in all respects successful ...

... MESSRS. PATEY AND WILLIS.-- One of the most original and interesting publications of the day is Songs of the West --tradi tional ballads and songs of the West of England, collected by S. Baring-Goul ...

... THE OPERA.-- The only additions to the operatic repertory this week have been Donizetti's La Favorite, given in French, and Mozart's Figaro. The latter was produced on Wednesday, too late for notice n ...

... THE New York Daly Company at the LYCEUM have as yet appeared in nothing more novel than Casting the Boomerang an American eccentric comedy, based on a German original, in which this troupe of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIO. NERVES. How late must the piece of the evening begin in order that selfish playgoers may arrive in time for the opening of the performance? Surely nine o'clock ought to be late enough for anyone? It is an insult to the audience and the actors alike for people to struggle into their booked seats twenty minutes after the play has begun, inconveniencing everybody whom they ...

... . The concert given by this great artist on Saturday last at St. James's Hall was worthy of his high position in art, an excellent orchestra, directed by Mr. AV. G. Cusins, being pro vided so that symphonic works, and others requiring orchestral co-operation, enabled the concert-giver to demon strate his powers more effectively than in a succession of solos for violin accompanied on the ...

... . This admirable pianist gave her second and last recital on Saturday at Princes Hall, wMcli was filled by her admirers. She demonstrated her intellectual as well as her executive powers in selections from Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Sterndale Bennett, whose well-known and beautiful sketches, The Lake, the Mill-Stream, and the Fountain, she played with a grace of expression seldom ...