with gipsies, 189l.; The Eavesdropper, 493l.; Devotion, 3361. Sir J. E. Millais, Ophelia, 210l.; The Enemy sowing Tares, 115l. P. F. Poole, Peasant Girls, 3571. F. W. Topham, The Holy Well, 110l.; Little Nell in the Churchyard, 1051. J. M. W. Turner, A View in Italy, 162l.; Hardran Fall, 635l; Geneva, 241l.; Thun, 2521.; Plymouth, 3201.; The Tomb of Cecilia Metella, 2311.; Heidelberg, 1,165l.; Oberwesel, 1,0711. P. de Wint, Lancaster, 1,155l.; Southall, Notts, 1,7531. Sir F. W. Burton, La Marchesa, 210l. J. F. Lewis, A School at Cairo, 16517.; Lilium Auratum, 1,050l.; The Prayer of Faith shall heal the Sick, 756l. The falling off in the prices generally in this sale is decidedly remarkable, and due, it is said, to the fact that the works were sold without any reserve prices being put on them.

The same auctioneers sold on the 20th inst. the following works by the late Mr. Otto Weber : drawing, A Big Haul, 110l.; picture, Come on, Come along, 168l.

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge sold the collection of English coins of Mr. G. W. Egmont-Bieber last week. The sale occupied six days and comprised 742 lots, realizing the large total of 6,6821. 7s. 6d., or an average of nearly 10l. a lot. The prices obtained for the | rarer pieces will make this sale memorable in the annals of coin collecting. The Petition Crown, which Mr. Bieber bought at the Bale sale at 215l., ¡now produced 500l., being the largest sum ever given for an English coin, and only once being equalled by any coin-namely, a Roman Brass in May, 1870, from the late M. Sambon's cabinet. Six other coins fetched notable prices, viz., the Commonwealth Crown, by Simon, 1658, struck in gold, which realized 60l. in the Bale sale, and now sold for 285l.; Fifty-Shilling Piece, 1656, 2271.; George III., Pattern FiveGuinea, 1773, by Tanner, 112l.; another, 1777, by Yeo, 120l.; another, 1820, by Pistrucci, 112l.; William IV., Pattern Crown, by Wyon, in gold, 1831, 150l. The last five pieces were all bought by Mr. Bieber in the Halliburton Young sale in 1881, and together cost him 188l. 10s. The following prices were also remarkable : Henry VIII., George Noble. 30l. Mary, Noble (cracked), 25l. Philip and Mary, Pattern HalfCrown, obv. bare-headed bust of Philip in armour to right, rev. bust of the queen to the left, 1554, 140l. James I., Noble, 26l. Charles I., Tower Sovereign, 27l. 10s.; Treble Sovereign, 1644, 27l.; Oxford Pound Piece, of fine work, 1644, 50l.; Exeter Half-Crown, 1642, 1381.; Pattern Sovereign, m.m. plume, obv. bust of the king, rev. garnished oval shield, 42l. 10s.; another Pattern Sovereign, 491. 10s. Commonwealth, Pattern Half-Crown, 1651, by Ramage, m.m. mullet, rev. arms of the Commonwealth supported by an angel, 371. 10s.; Pattern Shilling, 1651, by Ramage, 80l. Pattern in Silver from the die of the Broad commonly known as the Two-Shilling Piece, 52l. James II., FiveGuinea, 1687, 28l.; Proofs of the Gun Money Crown and Shilling, 1690, 60l. Anne, FiveGuinea, 1703, with Vigo under the bust, 38l.; Proof Guinea, 1702, 28l. 10s.; Pattern Farthing in gold, 1713, rev. Peace driving a biga (struck on the Peace of Utrecht), 431. George I., FiveGuinea, 1716, 20l. George II., Patterns, FiveGuinea with young head, 1731, 35l.; TwoGuinea, 1733, with plain edge, 35l.; Guinea, 1729, 16l.; Half-Guinea, 1728, 29l. George III, Two-Guinea, 1768, 36l.; another, by Yeo, 1777,

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391. 10s.; Sovereign, 1816, by Wyon, 27l.; Half Sovereign, 1816, 32l. 10s. George IV., Proof Crown, known as "Whiteave's," 1820, 291. 15s.; Half-Crown, by Pistrucci, 1822, 40l. William IV.,

Pattern Crown, by Wyon, 1834, 28l. 10s. Victoria, Patterns, Five-Pound Piece, 1839, by W. Wyon, of unusual weight. 70l. 10s.; QuarterSovereign, 1853, 24l. 10s.; Five-Shilling Piece, in gold, 1853, 40l. 10s.; One Ducat, in gold, 1867, 27l.; Hong Kong Dollar, 1864, rev. four plain shields arranged crosswise, plain edge, 321.

Fine-Art Gossip.

MR. PEARSON, alarmed for the safety of the west front of Peterborough Cathedral, which, as everybody ought to know, is merely tied to, not built with the structure behind it, has forbidden the ringing of the bells newly hung in the belfry adjoining. Complaints are made that the prohibition was not issued before the expense of hanging, or rather rehanging, the bells was incurred. MR. JOSEPH B. KIDD, one of the original members of the Scottish Academy, the last of that company, died at Greenwich last week, aged eighty-one years. He began to exhibit at Edinburgh, and was one of the Associates of the Academy when it was formed of two other societies coalescing in 1826; he became an R.S. A. in 1829. He came to London some time after this, and ceased to exhibit at Edinburgh in 1836. He resigned the R.S. A.ship in 1858.

THE plan of erecting the new National Portrait Gallery in the rear of the National Gallery seems to be a temporary device, perhaps intended to promote the absorption of the minor institution by the major. We think this extremely undesirable, because the portraits are valued as such, and not as works of art, and there is quite enough for a director to do in looking after them, while the Director of the National Gallery is so hampered by studies and other duties of his office that we have had to wait many years for a new catalogue of the pictures; it is thus clear that he can hardly be expected to look after the portraits as well. Even although the present Government promises to find room for extensions of the National Gallery in the present barrackyard, and this indicates an intention to remove the barrack, it is not desirable to curtail the site available for that collection, which could, in the first instance, be enlarged where it is now proposed to place the portraits. A site on the Northern Embankment would, we think, suit the portraits better than any other. Kensington Palace is too far west, although it has many advantages.

SOME Comments have lately been made on the circumstance that 2,500l. has been given for a portrait by Romney. We are not surprised by this event. Within our own knowledge 12,000l. was offered by an eminent firm of print publishers for one of the finest of Romney's portraits of ladies. The noble owner of the picture, saying he did not care to part with the likeness of his fair relation, and would not interfere with its descent to his successors, declined the offer. The highest price recorded in Mr. Redford's 'Art Sales' as obtained at auction for a Romney was 1,386l. at the Cockburn sale in 1882, for 'Miss Ramus'; Mr. Anderdon's 'Mrs. Tickell' fetched 840l. in 1879; and Mrs. Browne's 'Lady Hamilton at the Spinning-Wheel,' 808l. in 1875. Of course higher prices have been paid at private sales.

THE annual meeting of the Society for Preserving Memorials of the Dead is to be held today (Saturday) at Chelsea, and will be combined with a visit to the church, where the incumbent, the Rev. R. H. Davies, will meet the members and a paper on the old monuments in the church will be read. Mr. G. W. G. Leveson-Gower has been elected President of the Society for 1889-90.

MR. W. R. BEVERLEY, the very capable scenepainter and ingenious contriver of scenic effects,

a charming artist in his own line, died on Friday of last week at Hampstead. He was a frequent exhibitor of sea-pieces at the Royal Academy from 1865 till 1880.

MR. A. H. MILLAR, author of 'Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire,' is writing a monograph on 'The Castles and Mansions of Renfrewshire and Buteshire,' to be illustrated by photographic views.

THE silver medal of the Numismatic Society, which is given for distinguished services to

numismatics and archæology, has this year been awarded by the Council to Prof. Percy Gardner, who holds the Chair of Classical Archæology at Oxford. Prof. Gardner was for many years a member of the staff of the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum.

In speaking of Mr. Nichols's translation of the 'Mirabilia' a fortnight ago we remarked that he contradicted his own assertion that his was the first English version that has been published by mentioning that two ancient English translations were published with the Latin text in the historical series of the Master of the Rolls by the late Rev. Churchill Babington. Mr. Nichols now writes :

"The work referred to in my preface as published with two translations is not the 'Mirabilia,' but Higden's 'Polychronicon,' which I mentioned as containing extracts from a late recension of the 'Graphia, or revised Mirabilia,' which Higden ascribed to a certain Magister Gregorius."

We were mistaken. The English translations given by Babington are not of the same 'Mirabilia' which Mr. Nichols translates, but of a late recension of the 'Graphia' by Gregorius.

FROM to-day (Saturday) until the 1st prox. an exhibition of water-colour drawings by Mr. T. Pyne and others will be open at 21, Baker Street. TO-DAY (Saturday) is appointed for the private view of landscapes in oil by Mr. A. D. Peppercorn at the Goupil Gallery.

HERR HEINRICH KOCH, the famous architect of Vienna and Buda-Pesth, was killed on the 11th inst., when he incautiously jumped out of a lift before it was stopped. The death is also announced of M. Dominique Chauvin, the French painter. He was decorated in 1864.

DR. WALDSTEIN has printed in the American Journal of Archæology an article on the marble relief (the head of a female winged figure) which he has identified as belonging to the figure of Iris in the east frieze of the Parthenon in the British Museum. The fragment was discovered in December during the excavations carried on by the Greek Government on the Acropolis. A cast of the fragment has been placed in the Museum. It fits exactly, even the fractures in the back portions. The American Journal of Archæology is going to print at once all the communications from the American School at Athens. In the present year the School has been digging at Anthedon and Thisbe, and in the spring began preliminary diggings at Platea. The last day of the diggings fifty-four lines of the famous edict of Diocletian were found.

MADAME SEVENE has bequeathed to the Louvre a sum amounting to about 150,000 francs, and the museum has been authorized to accept the same.

On Monday last the exhibition of the works of Barye was opened at the École des BeauxArts, Paris. It is one of the most interesting of the numerous exhibitions held on the Quai Malaquais.

THE Salon will be closed on the 29th, 30th, and 31st inst., and reopened on the 1st prox.

THE excavations at Megara Hyblæa in Sicily,

begun last January, are now finished. There have been discovered during this period three hundred tombs containing vases, an archaic head in limestone, a fine torso in marble, perhaps an ephebus, a remarkable capital, and an archaic Greek inscription. There were found at the same time four towers, a gate, and a good portion

of the old wall.

MUSIC

THE WEEK.

ROYAL ITALIAN OFFRA, Les Pêcheurs de Perles'; 'Faust'; 'Carmen.' PRINCES' HALL,-Herr Schönberger's Recital.

THAT Italian opera, or rather opera in Italian, has entered upon a new lease of life there is no longer any reason to doubt.

We were among the first to recognize the peculiar fitness of Mr. Augustus Harris for the work of an impresario when he gave an experimental season at Drury Lane two years ago, and in great measure he seems now to be equal to the multifarious duties of his office. Though not a practical musician, Mr. Harris has the intelligence to perceive that the public at the present time is far more exacting than formerly, and that mediocrity in any department is exceedingly injurious. Further, he takes account of the general advance in matters of taste; and it seems probable that the present season will be noteworthy for the banishment of faded works of the old school, and also for the abatement, if not the abolition, of abuses which made Italian opera a byword and a reproach among musicians. In commencing the season with Bizet's 'Les Pêcheurs de Perles' Mr. Harris was actu

ated by business motives with which it is needless to deal. It cannot be said that the opera is likely to be permanently successful on the Italian stage; and although Saturday's performance was in several respects far superior to that given under Mr. Mapleson two years ago, we see no reason to modify the opinions then expressed (Athen. No. 3105). As to the emendations made by Signor Mancinelli in the third act there is little to be said. Whether the original finale was or was not contributed by Benjamin Godard, a boy of fourteen, in 1863, is a matter of no consequence, and the new ending contributed by Signor Mancinelli is as modest as it can well be, being founded on the expressive melody which throughout is identified with Leila the priestess. The exponent of the leading character was Miss Ella Russell, whom the music, being mostly in the Italian style, suited admirably. Her high notes retain their purity, and so far as regards vocalism she has never been heard to greater advantage. The same may be said of Signor F. d'Andrade as the selfsacrificing Zurga, his fine voice being under perfect control. M. Talazac has, unfortunately, come to us too late. His powers are on the wane, and although he is tolerably free from the vices of the French school, and uses his falsetto with taste, his voice is, on the whole, rather hard and unpleasant. The opera was mounted with great care; and with an orchestra superior to that of last year, and an exceptionally large and powerful chorus, 'Les Pêcheurs de Perles' was certainly heard to great advantage.

'Faust' on Monday served for the début of another tenor, M. Montariol, a Belgian artist, and for the first appearance in London of Miss McIntyre as Marguerite. M. Montariol has a voice of sufficient power and good quality, and, except for some uncertainty in his intonation, nation, the impression he created was favourable. Miss McIntyre was a pleasant and girlish Marguerite; but though her manner has greatly improved, the trying situations in the fourth act were too much for her powers. The Russian baritone M. Winagradow made a good impression as Valentine, especially in the death scene. Of Madame Scalchi as Siebel and Mile. Bauermeister as Marta nothing need be

day as Don José in 'Carmen.' This was Signor Antonio d'Andrade, a brother of the eminent baritone. His voice is scarcely powerful enough for so large a house, but he uses it well, and his manner is characterized by a welcome refinement. The ad mirable conception of Carmen by Madame Marie Roze is too familiar to need further description. Miss McIntyre as Michaela again showed theimprovement she is making as an actress. At the first and second performances Signor Mancinelli was the conductor, but on the present occasion Signor Arditi took the baton, and the orchestra was excellent throughout the performance. Herr Schönberger, who gave a pianoforte recital on Wednesday afternoon, deserves to be commended for his unconventional programme. Avoiding for the most part the hackneyed works of the leading composers for the pianoforte, he included Beethoven's Sonata in c, Op. 2, No. 3, and Schubert's in c minor, the first of the three without opus number which were penned by the Viennese master during the last few months of his life. Like its companions, the latter work is rarely heard, and good service would be rendered by any competent pianist who would give a series of Schubert recitals to include some of the compositions recently published in the complete edition of his works. Herr Schönberger played most unequally, sometimes charming intelligent hearers by finished mechanism, liquid tone, and perfect freedom from affectation, and at others repelling them by exaggerated emphasis and lack of dignity in phrasing; on the whole, however, he seems to have improved since he last gave a recital in London. Among the remaining items of his programme were pieces by Scarlatti, Raff, and Oliver King, and three of Beethoven's German Dances, cleverly arranged by Herr Isidor Seiss, a German pianist formerly a pupil of Wieck and Hauptmann.

Musical Gossiy.

OF Mr. Mapleson's opera prospectus, which was published on Wednesday, it is necessary to speak with caution. On the manager's appeal for consideration on account of his past services we have nothing to say of an adverse nature. It is true that for many years he conducted Her Majesty's Theatre in such a manner as to win the appreciation and respect of musicians and the more intelligent portion of the public. On this account it is equally unnecessary to refer to more recent breaches of faith, which undoubtedly cost him much in loss of confidence. If his present promises are fulfilled the season which is to commence this day week will be noteworthy for the revival of operas which have been neglected of late. Mr. Mapleson names one novelty, Bizet's 'La Jolie Fille de Perth,' which, if given, cannot fail to excite

some interest. His list of artists is made up for

the most part of unfamiliar names, but he has secured Signor Bevignani as one of his conductors, and he promises a first-rate orchestra and chorus.

THE Wagner concert given in commemoration of Wagner's birthday on Monday at St. James's Hall was an extraordinary success, the demand for seats being in excess of that for any previcus Richter Concert. In view of the immense

is little to be said concerning what was done Monday. A number of familiar selections wer performed, and the love duet from 'Die Wa küre' was sung by Miss Anna Williams and Mr.

Lloyd. The applause was enthusiastic, but is

cannot be said that Wagner's art is much advanced by performances of this nature.

MENDELSSOHN'S Concerto was the most attrac tive item in Señor Sarasate's second concert last

Saturday afternoon. In this work the extra ordinary executive capacity of the Spanish violinist has, for the most part, legitimate exer cise. The rapid pace at which he takes the finale may be open to question, but there is something very alluring in the easy manner with which he conquers the most trying passages, and in the absolute purity of his tone. He has never played the work more beautifully than on Saturday, and we can comprehend and sympathize with the enthusiasm of the audience. Bernard's rather weak Concerto in a does not improve on acquaintance. The orchestra was heard in Svendsen's Norwegian Rhapsody, No. 3, and the Overture to 'Fidelio.'

Most of the concerts that have taken place within the last few days may be dismissed with brief notice, though the programmes have been for the most part of a high-class character. That of Madame Haas at the Princes' Hall on

Thursday last week, for example, contained Schumann's Trio in D minor, Op. 63, and Brahms's for piano, violin, and horn, Op. 40. Of the merits of Madame Haas as a pianist there is no occasion to speak. On the present occasion she contented herself with minor pieces, and was assisted by Miss Liza Lehmann, Herr Heckmann, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Paersch.

SIR CHARLES HALLE's programme on Friday included a Pianoforte Trio in E flat by Signor G. Martucci, Op. 62, an Italian pianist and composer, who appears to be forgotten in London, though he created some attention about a dozen years ago. His compositions are mainly for the piano, and though we believe he studied entirely in his own country, his music shows an intimate acquaintance intance with the school of modern Germany, of which Brahms is the acknowledged chief. In this respect he resembles Sgambati, but his style is less eccentric and more classical than that of his countryman. The great defect of his trio is diffuseness. Like Schubert he does not know when he has said enough; but unlike Schubert his ideas have not very great value in themselves, and to spread them out at such inordinate length was a serious mistake. Signor Martucci is only thirty-three years of age, and he may still learn the value of conciseness. The other works in this programme were Beethoven's Sonata in c minor, Op. 10, No. 1; Schumann's Trio in G, Op. 110; and Brahms's Sonata in A for piano and violin, Op. 100.

THE excellent quartet and quintet playing at the concerts of the Royal College of Music has frequently commanded praise, and it was a happy idea of some of the young performers to form themselves into a musical guild for the purpose of giving public concerts. The first of a series of four took place at the Kensington Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The principal works in the programme were Schubert's great Quintet in c, Op. 163, and Schumann's Trio in F, Op. 80. The rendering was remarkably good, the ensemble in the quintet being nearly perfect. The progress of the Musical Guild will be watched with interest.

On Monday afternoon Mr. A. Carli gave a matinée musicale at Collard & Collard's Rooms and in the evening Misses Josephine and Ida Agabeg gave a concert at the Steinway Hall. HERR WALDEMAR MEYER gave a violin concert at the Princes' Hall on Wednesday after

of the church excellent.

'Chaconne,' and various other solos exceedingly well. Frau Schoepffer, a soprano vocalist, created a favourable impression.

IT is stated that M. Lapissida, the Brussels impresario, has taken the Alhambra Theatre in that city for an extraordinary enterprise. He proposes next winter to engage the Bayreuth company to appear in Wagnerian opera, and afterwards to secure other performances of equally high class, one series of which would be given by the Lyceum company with Mr. Henry Irving.

'LE NOZZE DI FIGARO' has just been performed for the hundredth time at the Berlin Opera. As it was written in 1786, it would seem that Mozart's comic masterpiece is only heard on the average once a year in the Prussian capital.

HERR HANS VON BÜLOW has concluded his American tour, which has proved a brilliant artistic and financial success.

CONCERTS, OPERAS, &c., FOR NEXT WEEK.

MON. M. de Pachmann's Pianoforte Recital, 3, St. James's Hall.

Mr. Padel's Concert, 3 15, Portman Square.

Mr. W. H. Brereton's Vocal Recital, 330, Princes' Hall.
Royal Italian Opera, 8.30, Les Pêcheurs de Perles.'

Richter Concert, 830, St. James's Hall.

TUES. Miss Georgina Ganz's Matinée Musicale, 3, Dudley House.

Miss Frances Smith's Concert, 3, Princes' Hall.

Mr. Lawrence Kellie's Vocal Recital, 3.30, Steinway Hall.
Royal Italian Opera, 8. Mefistofele.'

Messis. Ludwig and Whitehouse's Chamber Concert, 8, Princes'
Hall.

Bristol Orpheus Glee Concert, 8, St. James's Hall.

Miss Helen Townshend's Annual Concert, 8, Steinway Hall.
Westminster Orchestral Society, 8, Westminster Town Hall.
Nikita's Concert, 8, St. James's Hall.

WED. Mile. Janotha's Pianoforte Recital, 3, St. James's Hall.

Musical Guild Chamber Concert, 8, Kensington Town Hall.
Mr. Gabriel Thorp's Annual Concert, 8, Steinway Hall,
The Euterpe Quartet Concert, 8, St. James's Hall (Banqueting
Room).

Handel Society's Concert, 830, Portman Rooms.

THURS. Mile. St. Ange's Concert, 3, Steinway Hall,
Mile. Jeanne Douste's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Princes' Hall.
Royal Italian Opera, 8, Lohengrin.'

Mr Claude Trevor and Signor Mhane's Concert, 8. Steinway Hall.

FRI. Sir Charles Halle's Chamber Concert, 3. St James's Hall.

SAT

Miss Winifred Robinson's Concert, 3. Princes' Hall. Mr. Malcolm Lawson's Concert, 4, Steinway Hall. Señor Sarasate's Concert, 3, St James's Hall.

Mile. Agnes Janson's Concert, 3, Steinway Hall.

Signor Denza's Concert, 8, Princes' Hall.

Royal Italian Opera.

Her Majesty's Theatre, 8. 'Il Barbiere'

Mrs. Chartes Yates's Concert, 8.30, 1, Belgrave Square.

DRAMA

THE WEEK.

Vane Featherstone, and many other young actors were seen to advantage.

A mere rifacimento of other plays, unskilful and unworkmanlike in construction, and incohesive in incident, is 'The Silent Witness' of Mr. Coleman. Beginning with 'The Ticket-of-Leave Man,' it developes into 'It is Never too Late to Mend,' and ends in 'The Lady of Lyons.' Freshness of incident is not indispensable to success, and plays with no more claim to invention than The Silent Witness' have won popular favour. Mr. Coleman, however, dispenses altogether with explanations. To the general play his new piece is what stepping-stones are to a bridge, and considerable mental agility and balance are necessary if the stream is to be safely crossed. From first to last he vouchsafes no light. His hero is apparently a man of some ability, since in a dale close under York Minster, and in a purely pastoral country falsely declared to be the West Riding, he carries off the gold medal for an undeclared invention. He is, however, a silly and a debauched ruffian, who so soon as any one will stand him drink gets drunk and quarrelWhile sleeping off the effects of a debauch he hears cries of murder. Staggering into his uncle's room, he is discovered over the body of the old man, and is forthwith found guilty of the murder. After customary experiences in penal settlements he escapes, thanks to the purse of a noble earl, who is the real murderer. Then, after hiding for a twelvemonth, in which, by the aid of his gold medal, he makes his fortune, he returns to find his sweetheart, whose father has failed, is on the point of marriage with the "wicked

some.

a Play in Four Acts. By Cecil Raleigh.

OLYMPIC.- The Silent Witness,' a Drama in Five Acts. By John Coleman.

THE INHERITANCE' of Mr. Raleigh belongs to a class of plays in favour a generation ago, a good type of which was the Olympic drama of 'The Hidden Hand. It is a melodrama, the basis of which is fratricide, and its interest depends upon the manner in which the guilt is brought home to the criminal, and an innocent girl is freed from the meshes of suspicion in which she is enveloped. Not very new are the devices employed, and the play is only original in so far as it presents in new combinations sufficiently familiar materials. It is fairly effective, however, and with important alterations might obtain a lasting hold upon the public. Some peculiar notions of the author, such as that a cheque dated on a

Sunday is invalid, and that a will signed in the presence of one witness is valid, will have to be dismissed. More important still, some redundant characters and much burdensome and tedious dialogue must be excised. Had the first performance been public in the full sense - had it, that is, taken place before the ordinary first night's audience the repetitions of speech and motive in the third act would have imperilled the play.

Mr. Raleigh has been fortunate in his exponents. The piece (with the exception of one subordinate character, the representative of which, having only a few words to speak, had not been at the pains of learning them) was well played, and Mr. Royce Carleton, Mr. Rutland Barrington, Mr. Rodney, Miss

been his rival. He brings with him proofs of his innocence, and the earl retires

behind the scenes to commit suicide. This curious mélange was not successful. For a moment or two, when the action was at its height, and a murder was shown, not too successfully, by means of the ombres chinoises, it seemed as if a triumph might be scored. Before that period, however, discontent had been manifested, the hope that had arisen proved illusive, and the concluding acts were received with ridicule. Actors who carried out, apparently, the designs of the author were the subject of very unflattering demonstrations. In most

cases the acting was competent, and in some it was excellent. Miss Marie Stuart, who, if we are not mistaken, comes of a good acting stock, was so good as a Scotch girl that managers should look after her. Mr. Paget, Mr. F. Cooper, Mr. Gerald Maxwell, Mr. Dempsey, Miss Finch, and others concerned, worked loyally, and faced difficulties

of no common kind. Mr. Coleman announces, at the theatre at which his piece has failed, his forthcoming appearance in Othello.'

Gramatic Gossip.

MRS. DALLAS GLYN succumbed on Saturday

in last week, at her house, 13, Mount Street,

Grosvenor Square, to the painful disease by which she has long been disabled. Isabella Glyn was born in Edinburgh, May 22nd, 1823. Under Michelet, or Michelot, of the Conservatoire, she studied in Paris, and she subsequently received the friendly counsel of Charles Kemble. On

January, 1848, she appeared at the Olympic. After playing in the country she took, on the 27th of September, 1848, at Sadler's Wells with Phelps, the part of leading lady vacated by Mrs. Warner. Her first appearance was as Volumnia in 'Coriolanus.' Crude at first, she rapidly ripened, and as Hermione, Belvidera, Queen Katherine, Constance, Portia, and Cleopatra established herself in a leading position. She played in 1854 at Drury Lane with Mr. Barry Sullivan, first in a play of Fitzball's, and afterwards in Shakspeare. Cleopatra and the Duchess of Malfi were her principal characters. During her late years she devoted herself largely to public readings and to private tuition. In 1853 she married, as a second husband (her first, Mr. Wills, having died while she was still young), A. S. Dallas, of the Times, the author of 'The Gay Science,' &c., who died in 1879. The marriage was not happy, and resulted in a separation. One curious phase of the quarrel was the temporary incarceration of the actress for contempt of court. No slur upon her character was, of course, involved, her action being only due to jealousy and petulance. Mrs. Dallas Glyn was a handsome woman, with a stately presence and dark complexion and hair. She obtained much social success, and was

prized by those privileged with her intimacy. Her remains were buried at Kensal Green on Wednesday.

THE next revival at the Lyceum will consist of Watts Phillips's drama of 'The Dead Heart,' first produced at the Adelphi in November, 1859. In this Mr. Irving will play Webster's part of the hero; Mr. Bancroft, specially engaged, will return to the stage as the dissolute Abbé Latour ; and Mr. Arthur Stirling will be the Jacques Legrand. Miss Ellen Terry assumably will take Miss Woolgar's part as the heroine. The mere hint of the revival inspires much interest.

'NOWADAYS,' by Mr. Wilson Barrett, was revived on Monday at the Princess's, with Mr. Wm. Rignold in Mr. Barrett's part of John

Saxton, with Mr. Yorke Stephens as his son, and with some minor changes in the cast. Miss Grace Hawthorne, Mr. George Barrett, and other members of the company reappeared in their original characters, and the whole was received with favour. Mr. Byatt's nautical drama 'True Heart' is announced for the 3rd of June.

'HER FATHER' is the title of a version of the 'Conflicto entre dos Deberes' of Señor

Echegaray, by Messrs. Edward Rose and John Douglass, produced one afternoon in last week

Vaudeville Theatre. The novelty was

acted by Mr. Hermann Vezin, Mr. Bernard

Gould,

Miss Annie Irish, and Miss Cowen, and

was received with much favour. A one-act

drama, entitled 'Dregs, by Mr. Alec Nelson, was played on the same occasion by Miss Rose Norreys and Mr. Charles Myers, and was also a

success.

MR. E. S. WILLARD and Mr. John Lart will shortly open the Shaftesbury Theatre with a revival of 'Jim the Penman,' in which Lady Monckton will resume her original part, and Mr. Willard will play the forger hero. Plays have been accepted from various authors.

'CLEOPATRA,' a new ballet in three tableaux, with Signora Giuri as the heroine, was produced on Monday under the direction of Mr. Augustus Harris at the Empire Theatre.

THE Novelty has been taken for a week, beintends to produce a version Archer of 'The Doll's House,' by Ibsen. Miss Achurch will play the heroine.

ginning June 8th, by Mr. Charrington, who

IT is not certain that Mr. Buchanan's adap

tation of 'Roger le Honte' will be produced during the present season at the Haymarket,

Mr. H. A. Jones's play of 'Wealth' having developed into a success.

THE last nights of Mr. Mansfield's performance of Richard III. are announced.

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