... . liiF, only novelty of a special morning performance given the other day for a charity at the Criterion was a rather mild comedietta by Aliss Annio Hughes, called A Husband's Humiliation. Even for comedietta Mis3 Hughes's plot, which deals conventionally with the squabbles nf a young married couple, is somewhat feeble but fortunately its bright dialogue makes up for its poor construction, and ...

... . THERE was, we believe, some talk of eventually putting into the evening bill the new play by Mr. Philip Havard, tried at a matinee the other day under the title Major Raymond. This is a course which could not be honestly recommended unless the author took into collaboration with himself some one sufficiently familiar with practical stage requirements to make the most of a very promising ...

... . THE first thing I should like to call attention to is the concert that is being arranged for the benefit of Madame Liebhart, a once popular singer, who for some long time past has been suffering from had health and other reverses of fortune. In her day Madame Liebhart was ever ready to give her assistance to the cause of charity, and now that she herself is so absolutely in need of help, it ...

... THE LIBRARY MODERN DOGS (TERRIERS). PROBABLY no other pen than Mr. Rawdon B. Lee's could have provided owners, breeders, ex hibitors, and sportsmen with such a fund of in formation as is contained in Modern Dogs (Horace Cox). The volume, which treats of terriers, was first published in 1894. It has now reached its third edition, and the oppor tunity has been taken of placing before the doggie ...

... . In Current Cash, which has for the last few nights occupied the stage of the Surrey, the management has presented a piece already stamped with provincial Buccess. Current Cash is by Mr. C. A. Clarke, who has invented a story with much in it that is stale and common place, but one point that is fresh and interesting. This latter concerns the hero, who, when supposed to be dead, disguises ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WILD OATS. SOME day, no doubt, some competent writer will favour man kind with an exhaustive essay on the question Why do I go to the theatre? The subject is indeed far too recondite and complicated a one to be dealt with off-hand as might be fondly imagined. On the contrary, it might very well be divided into as many heads as a Scotch ser mon. There is a vague idea ...

... Charles Dana Gibson is one of the most talented and most popular of American black and white artists. His work, which happily combines draughtsmanship with idea and humour with grace, has been made familiar on this side by Messrs. Henderson and .Sons in their success ful publication, Pictorial Comedy. This enterpris ing firm have now issued a Gibson Calendar for 1905, which will appeal to all ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The classical concert given last week at Covent Garden was specially interesting, the programme being composed entirely of selections from the works of British composers. The list of con certed and solo pieces is worth preserving. It comprised:-- No. 1. The Naiads overture by Sterndale Bennett; No. 2. A new Rhapsodie Symphonique by Hamilton Clarke; No. 3. Air, Sad ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The programme of the Promenade Concert given last Satur day at Covent Garden was mainly composed of repetitions of orchestral works produced earlier in the season, hut included one novelty a new waltz for choir and orchestra, entitled Home, and composed by Mr. Crowe. It contains some melodious passages, and was well executed by the orchestra and Mr. Stcdmau's choir, ...

... . Carina, a new comic opera, libretto by E. L. Blanchard and Cunningham Bridgman, music by Mme. Julia Woolf, was produced last week at the Opera Comique Theatre, and met with a favourable reception, although its success was frequently imperilled by the exuberant zeal of a most energetic claque. The plot is founded on that of Damaniant's play, Guerre ouverte; ou, Ruse contre Ruse, which was ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are some theatres which it is the fashion to look up to as very superior indeed. We approach them with reverence, we criticise them with awe. Now it is to the one actor or the one author there that we so humbly bend now it is the prestige of the site which overpowers us now we prostrate ourselves in dreadful adoration before the tremendous ...

... . SATURDAY afternoon saw the resumption of Mr. Robert Newman's Symphony Concerts at the Queen's Hall, and a more satisfactory beginning could not have been desired. The hall was well filled; and the instrumental force, under Mr. H. J. Wood's direction, was composed of a fine body of players, who more than proved their worth during the afternoon. Chief among the orchestral items was the ...