in black and white and pastels, to open on the 21st of October. The exhibition of the Royal Scottish Water Colour Society will be held in the galleries of the Institute simultaneously with the black and white exhibition.

THE Mexican Government has passed a law for the preservation of national monuments and antiquities. There are some remarkable objects in the museum of the capital. This law embraces Yucatan.

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FROM the province of Grosseto comes news a rich discovery of gold gold ornaments at Vetulonia, in one of the circle-tombs peculiar to the necropolis of that place (so called because surrounded by a rude stone circle, in contradistinction to the still earlier well-tombs found at the burial-places of the other cities of the Etruscan confederation), and dating from the seventh century B. C. Between two layers of cork wood, all that remained of a coffin, were found four bracelets of gold band exquisitely worked in filigree, three brooches of gold, an amber necklace consisting of nude figures of women and of Egyptian dog-headed animals crouching, two chain necklaces in bronze, several amber brooches, others of bronze and iron, a very original earring in bronze and many fragments of bronze vessels, a batch of twenty-seven double-faced cylinders in earthenware, with vases of fine red clay. Amongst the stones with which the trench was filled were found two bronze bits for horses, ornamented with the human figure of very primitive design; four bronze rings for traces, and two bells belonging to the trappings-all things appertaining to the biga, and not commonly found in a tomb where female ornaments abound. Within one of the bracelets some human teeth were found, though there were no remains in the tomb of the burnt bones of a corpse.

THE Rev. F. O. White writes :

"It is a matter of regret, if not complaint, that the new Catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery

should contain the errors and mistakes of the former edition, which hardly appears to have been revised at all, except that some of the portraits have been rechristened. Allow me briefly to enumerate some

of them. We are still told that (1) a portrait of Speaker Onslow, painted 1728, was the work of Kneller, who died 1723 (p. 333); (2) a portrait of Sir Nicholas Bacon represented at the age of sixty-eight, in 1579, was bequeathed to him in 1556 (p. 37); (3) Charles II. died at St. James's Palace (p. 98); (4) Judge Jeffreys was appointed Recorder of London

(p. Charles Edward his escape

168346246) Predatoring

from Scotland 'thenceforward resided in Rome'

(p. 100); (7) Bishop Burnet lost his chaplaincy to Charles II. and fell into disgrace after the execution of Lord Russell (p. 75); (8) Bishop Lloyd supplied Burnet with the materials for his 'History of the Reformation' (p. 278); (9) Sir Matthew Hale acted

as counsel for Charles I. at his trial (p. 196); (10) the Seven Bishops were sent to the Tower, 1688, 'for refusing to order the reading of King James's Declaration of Indulgence' (p. 390); (11) the second Duke of Grafton was appointed one of the Chief Justices of Great Britain' (p. 186). This will suffice for a sample, and I will not insult your readers, or occupy the space of your paper, by pointing out the inaccuracy of the above. But I will add a few errors in phrases and words. At p. 307 Sir J. Maynard's famous reply to the Prince of Orange is made absolutely ludicrous, 'he had liked to have outlived the law itself if his Highness had not come over'; 'descended of' (p.199); 'he become acquainted (p. 250); enjoyed a distinguished favour at Court' (p. 78); Hudson, the former instructor of Reynolds' (p. 121); 'a man of wit and ability, but of very delicate health' (p. 219); Newton's Principia" nere first published' (p. 326); 'Prior's Kitty ever young' (p. 369); Bishop Wilkin (p. 60); Horsley, Bishop of 'St. Asaph's' (p. 230). Many more, small and great, might easily be added, but I would not further encroach on your space, save to add that I am only aware throughout the entire volume of one revision having been made (apart from the nomenclature of the portraits), and that is altering Streatham to Stretham at p. 35 in the notice of Baber."

MUSIC

MR. CARL ROSA,

THE Unexpected death of Mr. Carl Rosa on Tuesday inflicts a very severe loss upon English musical art. Of that there can be no question, though happily the undertakings which were due in the first instance to his zeal and ability are now placed upon such a sure foundation that even the removal of his guiding hand may not imperil their existence, as it would have done only a short time ago. When at the age of thirty, and after successfully testing his powers as an impresario in America, Mr. Carl Rosa came to this country, English opera was in a moribund condition. (His name was Rose, but in the States he altered it to Rosa.) Those who from time to time attempted to galvanize it back to life utterly failed to recognize the growing requirements of the public. It was in September, 1875, at the old Princess's Theatre, that Mr. Rosa commenced his enterprise, and quickly proved that opera in the native tongue might be rendered artistic and acceptable to those of cultured tastes. But although musicians recognized the merit of his performances, the existing prejudice against English opera was so strong that the public for the most part held aloof, and season after season in London the substantial results were so discouraging that if it had not been for the hearty support accorded in the provinces the enterprise must inevitably have collapsed. But the gratitude due from musicians to Mr. Rosa is not solely on account of the excellent manner in which operas were given under his direction. In the face of sore discouragement he did his utmost to form a national school of lyric drama by commissioning new works from our best composers. 'Esmeralda' and 'Nadeshda,' by Mr. Goring Thomas; 'Colomba' and The Troubadour, by Dr. A. C. Mackenzie; 'The Canterbury Pilgrims,' by Dr. Villiers Stanford; and 'Nordisa,' by Mr. Corder,

owe their existence to the Carl Rosa Company, and, although the first-named work alone shows any signs of vitality at present, we cannot but think that the great merit of some others in the list will cause them to be heard of

again when time shall serve. The ingratitude of metropolitan amateurs led Mr. Rosa to form his headquarters at Liverpool, where for a considerable portion of the year performances of the finest operas, from Mozart to Wagner, may

now be heard. The transformation of his enter

prise into a joint-stock company, and the union of interests, only effected a few days ago, with Mr. Augustus Harris, render it possible, as we indicated above, that the undertaking may not perish with its founder. Whatever may be the outcome, however, to Mr. Carl Rosa will be due the credit of serving the interests of English art in a manner and to a degree unexampled in the operatic history of this country. Singularly enough, notwithstanding the outward manifestations of boldness and confidence in himself, Mr. Carl Rosa was remarkably apprehensive in disposition and painfully sensitive to adverse criticism. His nervous, highly strung temperament caused him to feel acute pain at even a slight check, and it was only his pure love of art that enabled him to conquer the frequent temptation to abandon his arduous and risky undertaking. The public had no more faithful servant than he who has been suddenly, and as it seems to us prematurely, called to rest in the midst of work.

Musical Gossip.

'Lucia.' Indeed, out of eighteen operas only seven are Italian, and of the promised additions to the repertory one is German and the remaining three are French. Even more remarkable is the list of artists engaged by Mr. Harris. It extends to nearly forty names, yet not a dozen of the singers can claim to be Italians. The rest are English, American, French, Belgian, German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian. Notwithstanding this unquestionable incongruity, however, it cannot be said that the time has yet arrived for the final abandonment of the Italian tongue. It would be easy, of course, to perform French works in their proper language, and the promised rendering of Gounod's 'Roméo et Juliette' will probably prove the commencement of an important reform in this direction. But German is out of the question except with a company specially arranged, and we must be content for the present to hear Wagner's works through the medium of a translation. This, in the instance of 'Die Meistersinger,' cannot fail to be extremely unsatisfactory, and the keenest admirers of the master will not find much cause for regret if it is abandoned. To those who are acquainted with the enormous difficulties of the work this must seem by no means an unlikely contingency, as the rehearsals have not yet commenced. One more point is worthy of consideration. Mr. Harris deserves the cordial thanks of amateurs for his strenuous opposition to the star system. His company is strong in all departments, but certain names conspicuous at present by their absence, and the wisdom of his firmness in resisting excessive claims is proved by the fact that the support already promised to his enterprise is wholly unprecedented. The season will commence on the 18th inst., most probably with 'Faust,' and will last ten weeks.

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NOTHING is as yet positively known concerning Mr. Mapleson's promised opera season at Her Majesty's, announced to commence on the 25th inst., and meanwhile it will be well to receive with the utmost caution the extravagant statements put forward.

THE first meeting of the Leeds Festival Chorus was held on Thursday last week under Mr. Alfred Broughton. The force consists of 85 sopranos, 58 contraltos, 19 altos, 79 tenors, and 76 basses-total 317. The severity of the examination may be estimated from the fact that only 149 of the new chorus took part in the hearsed, and the reading of the work is said to have been marvellously accurate. Hopes are entertained that the approaching festival will eclipse all its predecessors in merit.

It seems doubtful whether Sir John Stainer will be willing to accept the Chair of Music at Oxford, vacant by the death of Sir F. Ouseley. If not, there is a talk of choosing the Rev. J. H. Mee, Mus. Doc., known in Oxford not only as a classical scholar, but as an accomplished musician. The mass which he wrote as an exercise for his degree, and which was performed in the Sheldonian Theatre last November, gave evidence not merely of technical knowledge, but of artistic feeling. Besides this, it is desirable the new professor should be resident, and Mr. Mee has been a power in music at Oxford for many years, where the present flourishing condition of the art is said to be largely due to his exertions.

THE Italian opera season in Paris under Signor Sonzogno has been inaugurated somewhat curiously by Bizet's 'Les Pêcheurs de Perles,' with Mile. Calvé and MM. Talazac and Lhérie in the principal parts. M. Talazac will sustain the role of Nadir in the production of the work at Covent Garden.

Le Ménestrel is responsible for the extraordinary statement that an idea is entertained of producing M. Paladilhe's opera 'Patrie' at and Lassalle in the leading male parts. The conclusion of the opera is to be altered, and a new air introduced for M. de Reszké. We give this statement for what it is worth.

THE performances in connexion with the Paris Exhibition will include two concerts of Russian music at the Trocadéro on June 22nd and 29th, with an orchestra of a hundred performers under the direction of Rimsky-Korsakow. The programmes will include works but little known outside of Russia by Tschaïkowsky, Borodine, Balakirew, Cui, Liadow, Glazounow, and the conductor.

MESSRS. LUDWIG AND WHITEHOUSE COmmenced another series of their excellent chamber concerts at the Princes' Hall on Tuesday evening. With the assistance of Messrs. G. Collins and A. Gibson, remarkably good performances were given of Beethoven's Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, and Haydn's in G, Op. 54, the ensemble being nearly perfect and the general reading of the works bright and intelligent. Brahms's Trio in c minor, Op. 101, with Miss Zimmermann as the pianist, was included in the programme. Mr. Plunket Greene was the vocalist. There was a large and appreciative audience.

MISS MEREDYTH ELLIOTT's concert at St. James's Hall on Wednesday evening was of a miscellaneous character, and without any genuine musical interest. Miss Elliott has a pleasant and well-trained mezzo-soprano voice, and gave much satisfaction in her songs. Mr. Philip Newbury, a tenor from Australia, was announced to sing, but he did not appear.

THERE was a large and brilliant audience at the first of a series of "ladies' nights" at the

Grosvenor Club on Wednesday. The programme was under the direction Signor Tito Mattei, and among the performers were Mile. Marie Tietjens, Madame Belle Cole, Mr. Iver McKay, and Signor Abramoff.

THE Richter Concerts commence on Monday next. The policy of further increasing the proportion of Wagner's music is already justified, the number of subscribers having greatly increased.

THE competition for the best setting of the French Exhibition cantata '89' having proved unsatisfactory, M. Gounod has been asked to supply the music, and has consented to do so.

THE first volume of the extensive correspondence of Padre Martini has just been published in Bologna. The years it includes are 1732 to 1755.

HERR HEUBERGER's opera 'Don Manuel' is said to have met with much success at Leipzig, notwithstanding the composer's uncompromising

adherence to the principles of Wagner.

FRÄULEIN MARIE JOACHIM, a daughter of the great violinist, has just made a successful début in the part of Elizabeth in 'Tannhäuser' at Elberfeld.

THE Emperor William has announced his plays this year. His visit will last for five days.

intention of attending the Bayreuth Festival

A WAGNER cycle will take place at the Berlin between May 26th and June 20th. The only perundert directioneer Tucher,

works to omitted are 'Die Feen' and sifal.'

BRAHMS's new Sonata in D for violin and piano

has just been published by Simrock in Berlin. It will be performed for the first time in London at Miss Fanny Davies's concert at the Princes' Hall on Tuesday next.

KARL MILLÖCKER, the composer of the 'Bettelstudent,' is engaged on a new operetta, entitled 'Der Arme Jonathan.' It will be first performed at the Vienna Theatre.

THE collection of musical instruments in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York has received a highly important addition by the

HAYMARKET.-'Wealth,' a Drama in Four Acts. By Henry Arthur Jones.

COMEDY.- Tenterhooks,' a Farcical Comedy in Three Acts. By H. M. Paull.

'WEALTH' is a creditable effort to produce a good play. Mr. Jones has aimed high, but he has_come short of his mark, and his work has, it is to be feared, no element of abiding popularity. Wealth' is a study in the manner which M. Sardou copied from Balzac. A central figure elaborated with much care is placed in the midst of a world of selfish and sordid interests. For the defeat and mortification which come upon the hero the sympathy of the public is challenged, while the behaviour of a pack of greedy and disappointed sycophants supplies the comic effect. This method is as good as another. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Jones's hero is neither sympathetic nor interesting. Matthew Ruddock is a self-willed, ambitious, obstinate, and over-successful man, with a cynical contempt for the so-called friends who flock around him, and an overweening estimate of his own abilities and powers. Having no son of his own, he has adopted a nephew who is to marry his daughter Edith, and to transmit to coming times the name of Ruddock as that of a merchant prince. Cowed by her father's affection almost as much as by his stubbornness, Edith Ruddock has yielded to his will. When the time comes to fulfil her promise to her cousin she is unable to do it. She has plainly perceived that he is a selfish, dangerous, and unscrupulous man. The aversion thus created she might conquer, but she has fallen unconsciously in love with Paul Davoren, a young manufacturer of socialistic ideas. Her father's peremptory commands are accordingly met by a will as inflexible as his own. Mortified in his am

bitions and in his tenderness, and suffering unconsciously from cerebral excitement due to overwork and other causes, Ruddock banishes his child from his house, and cuts fortune to his nephew. After making this her off with a shilling, leaving his entire

thing approaching recovery. His mind, weakened by the strains to which it has been subject, gives way under the shock of finding that his losses are imaginary, and having destroyed the wicked will, he peaceably expires in the arms of his daughter. This is a fair subject, and offers room for diversity of treatment. In the conception of the greedy and selfish creatures who prey upon the millionaire Mr. Jones shows distinctly comic ability. Some of the love scenes incidentally introduced are pretty, and the painting of the principal character is bold. The whole fails, however, to produce the effect to be anticipated, and an admirably competent interpretation does not succeed in commending it to the public. Matthew Ruddock does not for one moment command our sympathy, his sufferings leave unmoved, his invective falls upon dull ears, and his defeat and despair are matters of indifference. This being the result, it is obvious that Mr. Jones has missed his aim.

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Mr. Tree acted the part of Ruddock with considerable power, and will, when the performance has, so to speak, consolidated, make of it one of his best creations. It is doubtful, however, whether the passion and inspiration of a Robson could render the character attractive. Everything had been done to secure a competent interpretation, and many of the comic characters were excellently played. So good, indeed, was the acting of Mr. Brookfield, Mr. Kemble, Mr. Weedon Grossmith, and Mr. Hargreaves, it might well have saved a piece the weakness in which is less marked. Miss Norreys and Mr. Maurice gave pretty effect to some love trifling; and Mrs. Tree played the heroine with tenderness.

'Tenterhooks,' a farcical comedy by Mr. H. M. Paull, produced on Wednesday at the Comedy Theatre, is an uproarious piөсө of absurdity which creates a fair amount of laughter, but has no very distinct character. It is played in brisk style by Miss Lottie Venne, Miss Featherston, Mr. Marius, Mr. Harry Nicholls, and Messrs. Hawtrey, and answers its purpose of causing a couple of hours' amusement. It calls, however, for no comment further than the statement that it was received with favour.

Gramatic Gossip.

AMONG those present at the performance of 'Wealth'last Saturday was Mr. William Morris, an unusual guest on such occasions, but lured, possibly, by the knowledge that one of the characters a representative of mild

Socialism. With him was his daughter, bearing

a striking resemblance to her mother, and recalling numerous pictures of Rossetti.

'CLAUDIAN' was revived on Monday at the

Miss Eastlake as Almida, and Mr. Charles HudPrincess's, with Mr. Wilson Barrett as the hero,

son as the Tetrarch. The play has lost something, and seems scarcely so impressive as when first seen. In a most ill-chosen and disastrous costume Mr. Wilson Barrett acted with his old power, and to him the success of the revival is due.

A NEW farce by Mr. Richard Henry, entitled 'From Information I have Received, has been put into rehearsal at Toole's Theatre, and will, it is hoped, be produced in about three weeks' time. Ici On Parle Français 'has now entered on the third year of its existence.

MISS GENEVIEVE WARD, who has returned to tations of 'Forget-Me-Not' at the Opéra

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MR. MANSFIELD'S season at the Globe will finish on the 1st of July, when 'Richard III.' will be withdrawn.

'OH, THESE WIDOWS!' adapted by Mr. James Mortimer from the French of MM. Michel and Labiche, and produced on Wednesday afternoon at Terry's Theatre, has scarcely the ghost of a plot. The attentions of a young architect to an ingénue are intercepted by a widow, and a certain comic, but fatiguing imbroglio is obtained. Miss Lydia Cowell, who reappeared after a two years' absence, was deservedly welcomed, and Mr. Eric Lewis and Miss Larkin worked hard

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W. E. NORRIS,

MRS. PARR,

W. W. STORY,

And the Failure of this Branch of

STANLEY'S EXPEDITION.

BY

JOHN ROSE TROUP,

Transport Officer to the Expedition.

WARD & DOWNEY, Publishers, 12, York-street, Covent-garden, London.