... Bergson, is full of character, but how far its character warrants its name we are not in a position to say. We can, however, speak of the Danse as a pleasing and graceful composition, all the more acceptable because a little peculiar. The same composer's ...

... before, a pure inven tion on the part of some romantic native. Doctor Livingstone has his work yet to do, and although we speak confidently of the un truth of the present story, it must be remem bered that we may any day receive intelligence that what ...

... followed. The very fact of that attractive work having been so long before the public, renders it superfluous now for us to speak of it further than to direct attention to our artist's portrait of Mrs. J ohn Wood, the beautiful savage who figures as the ...

... entertainment, interspersed with clever dialogue. Its music is of the old popular kind, which does not require any voice to speak of; and its literary pretensions do not rise above clever puns of the old-fashioned verbal species. But its action is brisk ...

... to pronounce it seem to have finally settled down at The War Devil. The production of two versions of Frou-Frou, not to speak of legal proceedings before the Vice-Chancellor, has naturally rendered that far-famed comedy, or comedy-drama, as our p ...

... occupied by the veteran president, Mr. C. B. Vignoles, F.R.S. Lords Granville and Derby were the chief speakers. The former, speak ing as a maker of bricks, an ironmaster, a coalmaster, and a manufacturing engineer, expressed his belief that trade was reviving ...

... Cairo and Weber's Abu Hassan, twice before postponed, were again announced for Thursday. About these interesting works we must speak next week. Concert-givers have been unusually active lately, and we can only scan their doings. On Monday the Phil harmonic ...

... despair are so vividly exhibited, that the keenest interest is aroused and the audience becomes personally concerned, so to speak, in Marguerite's un happy fortunes. We need not say a word about the charm of Mdlle. Nilsson's singing. She sings as Marguerite ...

... sion is called Breaking the Spell, a little trifle thoroughly adapted for drawing-room use. The plot of the piece lies, so to speak, in a nutshell. Here it is Peter has been driven by the coquetry of Jenny to take the Queens shilling he is sorry for it, and ...

... public will accept the new Elvira, or whether the character has appeared only to disappear. Of the series of benefits we shall speak in due time but it is worth noticing, now, that the announcement of Leonora {Les Huguenots) by Mdlle. Titiens, and also by ...

... very like a a vulgar country damsel of decided romping tendencies. We will not in sist upon the fact that Zerlina, properly speaking, is as innocent as she is pretty but admitting that she may be otherwise represented, there is a point beyond which no artist ...

... forget her execution of the Toccata Finale (Op. 26) such a combination of delicacy, strength, and precision, while, so to speak, flying over the key-board, being rarely met with. Madame Goddard also joined Madame Norman-Neruda in the Sonata for piano ...