... NE IV MUSIC. PLACE, first of all, for the Christmas music which, like early annuals, has come to us in good time. Music and Christmas have always been inseparable. The original Christmas morning, as ...

... A VERY important collection of Bibliotheca Typogra phica, in the choicest condition, will be submitted to the public early in the new year by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson. It is said to be ...

... MR. H. J. BYRON'S new drama, Uncle Dick's Darling, lately brought out at the Gaiety, is, perhaps, one of the most creditable novelties of the day, though absence of anything like original ...

... AFTER all, are there very many bad novels now published? Bad, that is, in the sense of being morally objectionable. It is no longer safe, we are told, to put a large ...

... MR. WALTER DYER, of Regent Street, will shortly publish Woodin's Whimsies, by W. S. Woodin (of the Egyptian Hall), profusely illustrated with original full-page coloured ...

... V AMONG the holiday amusements that attracted the good people of London in days of yore were certain melo dramas, which were put on the stage with vast magni ficence, and in which fairy t ...

... MESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO. have published Six Songs by Jacques Offenbach, which are likely to make that much-abused and popular composer better known in cer tain quarters than he is at presen ...

... AMONG theatrical critics it remains a moot question whether Mr. Tom Taylor's new play, 'Twixt Axe and Crown, now acted at the QUEEN'S, will prove a permanent success or not. A drama in wh ...

... Mr. JOHN S. CLARKE, the American comedian, is an artist who does not recklessly vary his programme, but fully appreciates the value of runs. As Major de Boots he was so long before the p ...

... A period remarkable for the rapid succession of novelties has been followed by another equally remarkable for the rapid succession of revivals. Mr. Sothern's reappearance at the Haymarket ...

... THE two theatrical novelties of the week have been conveniently produced together at the Princess's Theatre. Both are the work of Mr. Boucicault, both are from the French, and, what is fa ...

... THE THEA TRES I HE many revivals by which the last few weeks have been distinguished have all proved more or less prosperous. At the Adelphi, Mr. H. J. Byron, to the part of Sir Simple Simple in Not s ...