... ' ' I MArTTHnWS BR0To RS.' CHRISTY MNSTRELS.-t Yesterday evening, the Matthews Brothers, with I their 'troupe of Christy Minstrels, commenced a i short series of their popular entertainments inI the Circus, West Nile Street. The, company *was, welcomed ...

... and a sort of pendant to this abnormal character was intro- duced in one of the scenes in the unlovely shape of a nigger minstrel. The company charged with the representation of the diana is under the direction of Mr Charles Horsman, and is fairly capable ...

... May. ALrs UsgQod like- swise sailed yesterday for seY York to begin a e concert tour which will extend over 1S montus. The American residents ?? Loudto teudered onI s Thursda- y a faresvell receptie on a Mrs Vsg:~ooud and the affair organised by Alr Joseph ...

... is about to bring out a nev drama, which avill also introduce himself anl his violoncello. It is entitled A Wander- ia -Minstrel. ?? of the Vaudevilles is obvieusly a bur- lesque of tlte play foundedon'l~r Hardy'snovel. So far as this country is concerned ...

... end of the Nineteenth Century. The company engaged by AIr Willard to start his management of the Garrick Thcatrs with the American play Alabama will begin rehearsals on Tuesday. The next production will be a play by NMr Jerome K. Jerome, entitled The ...

... on Spenser's Faery Queen, but ( it is a story of crusading chivalry, in which Richard Coeur de Lion, his Queen, and the minstrel Blondel play important parts. I Lord Tennyson's 'Lady Clara Vere de Vere has been dra matised by Mr Rae Brown, and it will ...

... in Yarrow, Lord Ullin's Daughter, and Ship d- !d a' the Fiend, and recently' in Glasgow, The Ti j. Lay of the Last Minstrel, have placed him in O pi a very prominent position among native. Ti to musicians. Choral music has beenachiefly repre- ag ...

... Stanley and MNdlle. Lillian Lrave an enjoyable sketch, and for their Frill Dance were heattily be zopplauded. An interesting minstrel entertainmeist re was given by La Blonde Trio, and met with much arceptance. The artistes who repeat their last fo week's ...

... since at Chicago at the age of 75. His name here will probably be quite unknown, although in the early days of the Christy Minstrels his songs In the Hazel Dell, Rosalie the Prairie Flower, Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are march- ing, and Just ...

... GOt.r ieken fields and battered wevllsa Likel brave sea-king of yore. b {And idv it geesner laurels gr-ew, - It.1 Ancziexor minstrel's Song - m a sreobazdesemere true' IV Thoiro gright our wrong, KohiRi a 1thd murky murderers down, 6yficel$ud battled hold ...

... spriun up who babble their ballbids and chant their roundels with melodious mediocrity. From out the common ruck of such minstrels, Mr Andrew Lang has raised himnself by sheer dint of writing good and worthy poetry. lis work is niot, a mcre unmeaning jingle ...

... ha took the at i .direction of the Southern (Atnerican) circuit. srh t He was the original Ascs Trenchard in Our Mi 4t American Cousin in 1858, although his own Ab ,, impersonation *as destined soon to be for- b d gotten in the Lord Dwsdreary of Sothern ...