... THE London theatres are just now in the happy condition of the nation that has no history. For the moment their annals are un eventful, for the simple reason that they are as a rule prospering. A care ...

... THE AL SEASON, 1890.-- The Royal Choral Society resumed their performances on New Year's Night, when The Messiah was announced, with Mesdames Dotti and Patey, Messrs. Lloyd and Watkin Mills, as c ...

... B. WILLIAMS.-- Three fairly good songs of a sentimental type which will prove useful in the drawing-room, are: All the Same, words by E. Oxen ford, music by H. Trotère; How I Love Thee! written an ...

... Mr. W. E. NORRIS rightly describes Mrs. Fenton (I vol.: Longmans, Green, and Co.) as a sketch; but it is a sketch worth the greater number of finished portraits. Mrs. Fenton is an impostor and adv ...

... MR. TOOLE has been playing during the present week in fare well performances of Paul Pry and Domestic Economy. Poole's inquisitive hero is one of the most popular of those impersonations which Mr. Too ...

... AMONG all the peculiar merits of current fiction, it is not often that one has occasion to be struck by the magical effect of style. Indeed, there is some reason for thinking that very few readers any ...

... THE specimens of Mr. Burnand's skit on La Tosca which had found their way into print had prepared the .spectators at the ROYALTY last week for a rich feast of fun. Their expectations were disappointed ...

... 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 ...

... MESSRS. PITT AND HATZFELD.-- A goodly budget of music by one of the most famous composers of the nineteenth century, Edvard Grieg, comes from this firm, and will prove a boon to all cultivated musicia ...

... THE traveller bound east for the capital of Greece begins his Oriental experiences agreeably enough in the bright city of Corfu. The Lloyds' steamer from Brindisi to Corinth tar ...

... MESSRS. WILLCOCKS AND CO.-- A tenor of medium compass will find By the River, composed by Frank T. Lowden, very suitable for the boating season.-- Lord Byron's sweet love poem, She Walks in Beauty, ...

... CYRIL'S SUCCESS at the CRITERION has not proved to be the success which was anticipated. Partly because the light and sketchy character of the story is out of accord with the prevailing fashions o ...