... . liiF, only novelty of a special morning performance given the other day for a charity at the Criterion was a rather mild comedietta by Aliss Annio Hughes, called A Husband's Humiliation. Even for comedietta Mis3 Hughes's plot, which deals conventionally with the squabbles nf a young married couple, is somewhat feeble but fortunately its bright dialogue makes up for its poor construction, and ...

... . THERE was, we believe, some talk of eventually putting into the evening bill the new play by Mr. Philip Havard, tried at a matinee the other day under the title Major Raymond. This is a course which could not be honestly recommended unless the author took into collaboration with himself some one sufficiently familiar with practical stage requirements to make the most of a very promising ...

... . THE first thing I should like to call attention to is the concert that is being arranged for the benefit of Madame Liebhart, a once popular singer, who for some long time past has been suffering from had health and other reverses of fortune. In her day Madame Liebhart was ever ready to give her assistance to the cause of charity, and now that she herself is so absolutely in need of help, it ...

... . SATURDAY afternoon saw the resumption of Mr. Robert Newman's Symphony Concerts at the Queen's Hall, and a more satisfactory beginning could not have been desired. The hall was well filled; and the instrumental force, under Mr. H. J. Wood's direction, was composed of a fine body of players, who more than proved their worth during the afternoon. Chief among the orchestral items was the ...

... .3 SPORT is now such a well-worn subject that few can be found to say anything new about it. Still, if Miss Slaughter and her colleagues have not been able to throw any fresh light on the various subjects treated of, they have put forth a very readable book, and one which will please most women, inasmuch as it is by no means technical, in fact some of the writing is very free indeed. This, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. BILBERRY OF TILBURY. I SHOULD like to be able to say something nice about Bilberry of Tilbury, if only because some writers appear to think that musical comedy-- so called-- ought to be a sort of monopoly in London. But although I cannot go all the way with those of my friends who have found scarcely anything to praise in the latest Criterion production, neither can I be ...

... . IT is impossible to do justice to this interesting book-- every article in which is worthy of special notice-- in the space at our disposal; but there is little in it to provoke criticism and much that deserves praise, and the latter is more susceptible of compression than the former. Mr. Elliot is to be congratulated on the successful accom plishment of what must have been though evidently ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. BECKET. I SUPPOSE that I should bo committed for contempt forthwith were I to suggest that Becket, as wo have it at the Lyceum, is less a tragedy than a very mild melodrama. Still, I must venture to think that were we ignorant of Tennyson's share in it we should be disposed to regard it as the effort of some beginner in dramatic poetry deriving his inspiration from the ...

... . A very neat little plot is that devised by the collaborators who write as Richard-Henry for their new one-act piece now presented before The Bungalow at Toole's. This piece, which is called Adoption, is not exactly a farce and not exactly a burlesque, but may perhaps be most accurately classified as a comic domestic drama of the old-fashioned school enlivened by the humour of modern ...

... . AS usual, the subjects of sport aud drama have not appealed in any large number to the hanging committee, for we must assume that pictures on these most effective themes have been numerously painted. There is, indeed, a wonderful hunting picture, Casualties in the Hunting Field (1,004), surely one of the most wonderful ever seen! Mr. Sidney Cooper's age does not excuse him for sending this ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ESTHER SANDRAZ. MRS. LANGTRY'S performance in the part of the heroine goes for everything in Esther Sandraz; and, indeed, so it ought to, for there is literally little except the leading character in the piece. I am not aware how far Mr. Grundy was master of the matter and manner of his adaptation. But, at all events, he has given the actress-manageress enough to say and ...

... . fillip would speedily effect a change. CONCERTS of any importance are still few and far between, and Mr. Arthur Chappell's Popular Concerts practically hold the field. On Monday night they were honoured with the presence of the Princess of Wales, who was attended by Lady de Grey and Miss Knollys. It would be well if a little more Royal patronage were possible for these Monday Pops, as the ...