... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Glasgow i last night at the Theatre-Royal, is a remarkablee r piece with a somewhat remarkable history. It e is one of the best American dramas which have i - been presented in this country, and has for its S- $ author Mr William Gillette. The piece has h- had ...

... Bl7RGF3S M1NSMTELS. A novelty is provided at the Rovyalty Teatro 'this -week in the engagiement of the Moore and lrgeas Minstrels from the St .James's Theatre, 3London. Though this is the ftrst time the Min- 'shels have azlpeared at the Royalty, they ...

... entitled Fugitive ?? Humour. It deals not with the acknowledged masters of American wit, such as Miark Twain and Bret; Harte, but with the anonymous humorists oft the American press, the comic; story-tellers, po~ets-, and paragraph writers of the news-: ...

... Gray's Elegy issued by i the same publisher last season. The poem selected on this occasion for illustration is bv the American poet Thomas Buchanan Read, and is not unworthy of such treatment. The Closing Scene is set, so to speak, to the same m ...

... should Mr Longfellow olwo30 t i ous q Lhimself the quaint and cofig sef a rsniracle play? A new volume by the greatestof I American poets thrills the literary world with a Jhope'which is doomed,-we-fear, to: a ead'disBp-. ,poidtnient-. I'The Divine 'T!Fagedy ...