... of Paris, are to be resumed. Schumann's music to Manfred was given last week at a Conservatoire concert. American critics speak very favourably of Mdlle. Drasdil and Miss Alice Fairman, who are now on an artistic tour in the States, ...

... the dis approbation of the audience was so loudly expressed at the fall of the curtain that it was not thought pradent to speak the epi logue written for the occasion. The Duchesse, after vain attempts to improve its acting qualities, was quickly withdrawn ...

... later, and the firm of Peters, Leipsic, very generously lent it to the Crystal Palace for the performance of which we now speak. The symphony in B flat was written in 1816, when Schubert had reached his twentieth year. It belongs, therefore, to the same ...

... Paul Daly, the principal character in this new play, is a desperate villain of the Coburg and Adclphi pattern, whose evil-speaking, lying, and slandering, and gross misbehaviour against society in general, cause intense misery to his foster sister Maggie ...

... life-like, or there had been a few strong dramatic situations introduced, or the attacks upon democracy, right of public speaking and public meeting been expunged, Oriana might have made some way even against the improbabilities and unrealities of its ...

... that the campaign may be made interesting is true but we fail to see what will constitute the new era of which the manager speaks. London is used to double com panies working in shifts to use a word now familiarised by colliers' strikes, and the only new ...

... a public as that of London, and her chances were very slight from the first. The performance of Gounod's opera, generally speaking, was excellent. Mdlle. Scalchi had to repeat both of Siebel's airs, and M. Faure again asserted the perfection of his Mephisto ...

... the organ (with a pedal obbligato), by E. H. Turpin, will be very acceptable, while professors, who can use their feet, will speak well of this, and a bagatelle by the same composer entitled Musette. A romance for the pianoforte by F. V. Kornatski, is ...

... Palace), Miss Louisa Carlyle, Mr. Forrester, and Mr. Danvers are the leading members. It is gratifying also to be able to speak well of the scenery, which is very picturesque and effective while the band is considerably above the strength which is generally ...

... her old and best self. Indeed, if we could only banish from our mind the remembrance of a certain Salem Chapel, we could speak of May with a praise in which was mingled no shade of disappointment. But Mrs. Oliphant must forgive us, if having shown in ...

... Lane. The objections which apply to these vast houses at ordinary times are greatly increased in the case of a performer speaking in a language with which her hearers are not generally familiar. But the merit of her acting is precisely of that delicate ...

... Willing to Die, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, author of Uncle Silas (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett). We should have been glad to speak of this book, the last work of its gifted author, with wanner commendation than we can bestow upon it. It seems to us that ...