... Postmen's Overtime. --The flood of Christmas and New Year cards of greeting and congratulation has during the past fortnight caused an enormous increase of labour in the Post Office both in town and c ...

... I J^lusic) GILBERT AND CELLIER'S NEW OPERA THE MOUNTEBANKS which, after more than one postpone ment caused by the illness and subsequent death of its composer, was produced at the Lyric Theatre on M ...

... CAPTAIN THÉRÈSE.-- M. Planquette's new comic opera, the libretto by Messrs. Bisson and Burnand, entitled Captain Thérèse, was produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre on Monday night, with a fair m ...

... jYiusic) 1 GERMAN OPERA SEASON.-- Opera in German had not been heard for several years until in 1882 Herr Franke revived at Drury Lane this once popular form of entertainment. The enterprise was then ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Un Ballo in Maschera was followed by Auber's never unwelcome Fra Diavolo, the chief parts in which were sustained by Mdlle. Bianchi, Madame Scalchi, M. Capoul, Signors Ciampi, S ...

... OF THE JUBILEE.-- In the Jubilee celebration, music has hardly taken a very important part, although there has been plenty of Jubilee music. Sir Arthur Sullivan's Ode, written to Mr. Lewis Morri ...

... Alfred Hays. No. I. of W. Sterndale Bennett's edition of Mendelssohn's Pianoforte Pieces, carefully revised and fingered by his pupil, Arthur O'Leary, is Andante and Allegro, one of his most gracef ...

... t MESSRS. RICORDI.-- A most taking song, which should be heard very often in the concert-room this season, is Plenilunio (Guardate Sempre, Rapita l'Anima), words by Carmelo Errico, music by Paolo ...

... THE new sporting drama by Mr. Henry Pettitt and Mr. Augustus Harris at DRURY LANE has not put any very severe strain on the inventive faculties of the authors; but it is on the other hand a skilful pi ...

... Messrs. Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co. We may be sure of something out of the accepted ballad school when Charles Salaman, perc and Malcolm C. Salaman, fits, collaborate. Their joint productions are fe ...

... ALLEGRA, by Mary West (2 vols. Fisher Unwin), begins with the vising of the Milanese in 1848, and covers the whole lime that elapses until the coining of Garibaldi and the battles of Magenta and So ...

... THE great success which has attended Mr. Hawtrey's adaptation of Herr von Moser's comedy of Der Bibliothekar, now, under the title of The Private Secretary, verging upon its five hundredth per- forman ...