... character of Leah in Mosenthal's drama of that name. Of the present whereabouts of the other Bateman child we are not able to speak but we have now a young lady who is, we believe, a third sister, presenting herself for the first time on the London stage ...

... father of a family, in fiction at any rate, that he claims the kind of interest usually accorded to a younger hero. And here, speaking generally, we may sum up by saying fhat the author has given us one of the brightest and pleasantest pictures of domestic ...

... Zoboli (Masetto), and Signor Foli (Commendatore), represented Mr. Mapleson's old cast; and of their exertions we need not speak at length. There is no such Donna Anna on the stage as Mdlle. Titiens, while Signor Zoboli is an unobtrusive Maselto and Signor ...

... Trebelli-Bettini while most of the other parts were fairly well sustained. Respecting Mdlle. Titiens there is little need to speak, her impersonation of the hapless Valentina hiving long been recognised as the finest now upon the lyric stage. Enough if we ...

... might gratify managerial ambition for an entire season. Its demands upon orchestral, dramatic, and stage resources, not to speak of high vocal powers, are unique, or equalled only by Meyerbeer's oilier great works and it was absurd to expect that Mr. Mapleson ...

... concert announced to be given by the students of the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday did not take place and, generally speaking, there is a disposition to be inactive while the Prince's fate remains undecided. The Royal Italian Opera closed on Saturday ...

... sense of freedom from claptrap. 1 he anthem before us shows how obvious and common means of effect can be conse crated, so to speak, when used by a true musician. Dr. Stainer has drawn freely upon choral unisons and choral recitatives the favourite mannerisms ...

... advantage of being in great part achieved by genuine dexterity without the aid of apparatus. Unfortunately Dr. Mehay does not speak English, which as a conjurer is compelled to talk a little to the spectators-- is unfavour able. He is, however, able to explain ...

... to explain why the two works can be heard in succession with unflagging zest. Their performance on Tuesday was, generally speaking, satisfactory. An excellent orchestra gave the symphonic movements of the Lobgesang with great effect the Allegretto in ...

... present generation likely to forget, how admirable an artist was Charlotte Dolby, and how thoroughly she established a right to speak authoritatively in the 'matter of good singing. We are glad to find that, though retired from the platform, she has not retired ...

... Americans, who, like ourselves, are an inherently newspaper loving race. Without venturing, as Sydney Smith once said, to speak disrespectfully of the North Pole, we may be permitted to ex press a little mild suiprise at the exceeding zeal with which ...

... Thackeray's visit to the United States, as well as of the thoroughly conscious complacency with which he would occasionally speak of his own productions. The chapter on Dickens is enriched with a number of charac teristic letters from the novelist to his ...