... Ulu sic of tlje M c c h DEATH OF M. DUTREZ THE great tenor M. Duprez, who died in Paris last week, had attained the fine old age of within a few weeks of ninety years. Me was the original Edgardo in L ...

... NEW NOVELS NOEMI MR. BARING-GOULD has travelled out of his usual lines of country and of period in his story of Noemi (1 vol.: Methuen and Co.). His stage is the Valley of the Dordogne, about Domme ...

... ANDREA CHENIER AT COVENT GARDEN LAST season there was a talk of producing at Covent Garden Signor Giordano's famous opera, Andrea Chenier, but the scheme went off owing to some difficulty about the ...

... Utttsir OPERATIC MATTERS IT has now definitely been decided that the projected season of Wagnerian opera in English at Drury Lane next Easter will not be held-- at any rate under the management of Mr. ...

... jsome Utusic of lleoh LAST spring, when M. Lamoureux and his Parisian orchestra made their London début, they excited a great deal of attention and admiration, owing to the marvellously finished natur ...

... Itefo Hobfls THE INDIAN UNCLE LESLIE KEITH'S story (1 vol.: Bentley and Son) belongs to the Edinburgh of fifty years ago, which had neither Presbyterian nor Episcopalian cathedral, nor medical scho ...

... . MR. AUGUSTUS DALY began on Saturday night the season of five weeks which is all that he has been able to arrange this year for the London patrons of his company, and which he has to give at a theatre other than that which bears his name. He presents only two pieces during his stay, Love on Crutches and The Countess Gucki, the latter of which is his opening produc tion. As might perhaps have ...

... . In The Honourable Member, a three-act comedy produced at the Court on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. A. W. Gattie cannot be said to have improved upon the record of his previous work, The Transgressor. He has given us a much weaker and not much more plausible romance of modern life, freely satirising the hypocrisy of a familiar type of nouve.au richc, and telling a not very realistic story of the ...

... SIGNOR FRANCHETTl'S SYMPHONY. ON Thursday, October 8th, Mr. Robert Newman's programme at the Queen's Hall promenade concerts was graced by a new symphony by Signor Alberto Franchetti, a composer hitherto quite unknown to London amateurs, but a musician who has done good work in Italy. He was born in 1860 at Turin. His family having migrated to Venice the future composer began to study in his ...

... STRAND THEATRE. IT is generally a most risky venture to revive farcical comedy, especially when that farcical comedy is some ten years old. This however is the enterprise with which on Saturday last Mr. Scott Buist opened his management of tho Strand Theatre; and it constitutes, so far as we know, the raison d'étre of the under taking. The revival came off with a success which for our part we ...

... . Mr. John Hare began his second week at the Grand on Monday last with A Pair of Spectacles, one of the most genial, most genuinely humorous, and most attractive comedies of the lay. So long as Mr. Hare is at hand to interpret the confiding optimism of B.mjamin Goldlinch and to illustrate the old gentleman's temporary and disastrous aberration from his love- ible way, Mr. Grundy's admirable ...

... . On Tuesday afternoon -Mr. JJavnl inspnani gate cue cmiu mi last of his winter series of concerts at the St. James s llall. in every way the announced scheme has proved a success, lie interested and bored us at his first concert with examples ot carl v music on early-- oh, so early-- instruments, and now that he has brought himself to the compositions of the modern school he has both ...