... POSSESSION, a new musical sketch by Mr. Walter Browne and Mr. Alfred Caldicott, was pro duced about a month ago at Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's Entertainment, ST. GEORGE'S HALL, in the place ...

... THE AL YEAR 1890.-- The year which has just closed has been prolific in almost every branch of music. Opera, which it was the fashion a few years since to pretend was in a moribund conditio ...

... MESSRS. A. HAMMOND AND CO.-- The Academic Edition of Pianoforte Music, published by this firm, is so neatly got up and portable that it is a general favourite. No. 24 will prove a welcome ...

... MIRIAM'S SCHOOLING, which gives a title to a volume con taining the story of that name and Other Papers; by Mark Rutherford; edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott (I vol.: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co.), is, in character, a sort of tract; and, if all tracts were half as ably written, and as interesting to read, their success would bear much more proportion than at present to the ...

... MESSRS. METZLER AND CO.-- A new edition of H. Purcell's Tragic Opera, as it was originally called by its writer and composer, now appears as Dido and Æneas a dramatic cantata. This will revive the interest in a work of indisputable merit, which, when first pro duced at a school breaking-up about the year 1677, made quite a sensation amongst the musical big wigs of the period, who were ...

... THE AL SEASON, 1891.-- The musical season which is now opening promises to be an extremely busy one. Altogether apart from pianoforte recitals, of which nearly two hundred are to be given, the following arrangements have already been fixed. The Popular Concerts have recommenced, and will be continued on Mondays and Saturdays until March 23rd. It is unlikely that Madame Schuman will be able to ...

... IVANHOE.-- Although the date is not yet definitively fixed, in all probability the first performance of Sir Arthur Sullivan's new opera Ivanhoe will take place at the Royal English Opera on Saturday ...

... GREATLY improved from the point of. view of the comfort and convenience of visitors, and rendered decidedly more pleasing to the eye, the VAUDEVILLE Theatre reopened on Tuesday evening with Mr. Jerome ...

... MESSRS. DOREMI AND CO.-- Very well suited for school-work is Morn Till Night, a cantata for soprano and contralto voices, written and composed by Edward Oxenford an'd Theodore Distin; it con ...

... IT is unfortunate that Esther Lovell, by Sarson C. J. Ingham (I vol.: Hodder and Stoughton), is published in so cumbrous a form-- a big volume of nearly 500 closely-printed pages, which cannot be he ...

... THE POPULAR CONCERTS.-- On Monday Mr. Santley made his rêntree at the Popular Concerts, and, although somewhat hoarse, sang, in the thorough artistic manner for which he has so long been famous, M. Go ...

... MESSRS. RANSFORD AND SON.-- A very charming lullaby is Peacefully Sleep, written and composed by Lindsay Lennox, who has also supplied the words for Not in Vain, which Oscar Verne has set to melod ...