... THE fashion of performing plays by companies composed entirely of ladies-- whereby the Elizabethan custom of assigning both male and female parts to men is exactly reversed-- appears to be spreading w ...

... Htusu WAPPING OLD STAIRS MESSRS. ROBERTSON AND TALBOT'S Wapping Old Stairs, which, after a trial trip at King's Lynn, was produced at the Vaude ville on Saturday, may not be a great work, although i ...

... fcfo Itobels THE HAMPSTEAD MYSTERY A MYSTERY is something that puzzles people, and there was nothing to puzzle anybody in the fatal result of a fall from a Dover cliff. It is true that the fall in Flo ...

... llcfo 11 11 3 i c MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER AND CO. There is much merit in a sacred song, The Lord Shall Comfort Zion, recitative and air (chorus ad lib.), the words from Isaiah, chapter li., verses 1, 2 ...

... flefo It us U MESSRS. E. ASCHERBERG AND CO. (Jit, Mignonette a humorous song, words and music by Thomas W. Charles, will prove very useful for encores in Ihe home circle and at popular concerts. My Ch ...

... llttSU THE COMING BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL Dr. RICHTER has arrived in England, and on Friday of this week he was to direct the full rehearsal at Birmingham of Palestrina's Stabat Mater and Berlioz's Te Deu ...

... 6;uetu Ijcatrc When, like Little Jack Sheppard, a burlesque is a very good one, it follows up its existence in town by a slightly less glorious career in the provinces. Of late years its success has f ...

... fcto llusit MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER,- AND CO. There is more than ordinary interest in A Love Song,' com posed by the veteran musician, Charles Salaman, published on his eighty-sixth birthday, March 3, ...

... 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 ...

... Hifo HUtsu MESSRS. PATERSON AND SONS Of more than ordinary merit is Ave Maria, a song with obbligato lor violin and organ, words by Sir Walter Scott, music by I lamish MacCunn. Two pleasing songs fo ...

... m&ufos of t|c ilont| LOLD SALISBURY ON LORD ROSEBERY THE post of honour in this month's National Review is given to Lord Salisbury's article on Lord Rosebery's Plan. The late Premier lays it down that ...

... fUfo itttsif MESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO. In readiness for wet, gloomy days, in and out of town, we have a very excellent group of songs by favourite writers and com posers. For four ot these songs Clifton ...