... A NEW melodrama, entitled Nobody's Fortune, performed for the first time at the SURREY Theatre on Monday evening, is founded on a recently-published novel by Mr. Edmund Yates, which bears ...

... SIR BERNARD BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage (Harrison) has now entered its thirty-fourth edition; in itself a pretty good proof of the estimation with which this work is regarded by ...

... THE engagement of M. and Madame Ravel at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre has been brought to a close this week, and henceforth Mdlle. Adèle Page will be the chief star of the company, while her a ...

... MR. HENRY LESLIE began his season in St. James's Hall yes terday week with an assorted programme, containing all styles and classes of vocal music. National airs, for example, were represented ...

... MESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO.-- These spirited publishers, by adding Auber's Masaniello to their Royal Edition of Operas, have placed every admirer of the tuneful French master under no common ob ...

... MRS. STEELE is never wanting in courage; and in Broken Toys (3 vols., Chapman and Hall) she faces her subject bravely. Fashionable frivolity and fashionable vice are her main materials; a ...

... A NEW burlesque by Mr. Reece at the VAUDEVILLE is a decided success. Its title is The Very Last Days of Pompeii, and its fun consists chiefly in a travesty of the scenes in Mr. Oxenford's ...

... DR. GEORGE MACDONALD'S new story, Wilfrid Cumber mede (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett), is in autobiographical form. The hero traces, with more purpose than is at first apparent, the history ...

... THE operatic prospectus is a necessary appendage to the sub scription system upon which operas are given among ourselves. Those who pay large sums for the right of enjoying entertain ments to co ...

... MR. MONTAGUE has scarcely been fortunate in the selection of his second piece for the GLOBE. Forgiven is a poor substitute for Partners for Life, and Mr. James Albery is not at Iris best ...

... LORD KILGOBBIN. A Tale of Ireland in our own Time. By Charles Lever, LL.D. (3 vols., Smith & Elder). Mr. Lever is a veteran with whom time has dealt very gently. In Lord Kilgobbin, his ...

... THEATRICAL novelties of importance are now generally post poned to Easter, which falls a week earlier this year than last, a fact of some importance to the managers, for the Easter season ...