cluding the whole of the Opera Arcade, with its Glinka was born in Smolensko, in 1804, and died in ifteen shops, Nos. 1 to 5, Pall Mall, the Opera- Berlin, in 1857. His studies were chiefly in Italy house with the Haymarket frontage, and the and Germany. When the late Prince Galitzin United Hotel and Clergy Club. The present introduced at his concerts in St. James's Hall, income arising from these is 5,4067. 148., and they which he conducted himself, being an exile, Glinka's realized 92,000l. The letting of the theatre re- compositions, a very favourable opinion was formed mains, of course, in the hands of the Earl of Dudley. of the composer's talents. The production of the THE Cymmrodorion Society for the Encourage-Life for the Czar' is faintly foreshadowed in the ment of Literature, Poetry, Music, and the Fine Covent Garden Prospectus for this season, and, as Arts, originally established in London in 1751, Mr. Gye has been appointed Director of the Italian under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, and Opera-houses at St. Petersburg and Moscow, there re-established in 1820, has been revived, and has may be a chance of the opera being brought out signalized its awakening by a Musical and Literary here, especially as the mise en scène for MeyerConversazione in Freemasons' Hall, on the 20th, beer's 'Etoile du Nord can be turned to account with Sir W. Watkin Wynn, Bart., M.P., the in the Russian work. President, in the chair, and with Mr. Brinley Richards as conductor of the music. Prizes and medals will be given by the Society to carry out its objects. The list of presidents, council, and officers includes the leading noblemen and gentlemen connected with the Principality.

SIGNOR RANDEGGER's dramatic cantata, 'Fridolin,' will be produced at the Crystal Palace Concert next Saturday (the 30th).

MISS STEELE, at her Evening Concert, on the 21st, at the Hanover Square Rooms, was assisted by Madame Otto-Alvsleben, Messrs. T. Cobham, F. Finlayson, Corney Grain, and Santley, vocalists; and the Misses Kingdon, Messrs. G. Forbes, J. Thomas, Paque, and L. Sloper, instrumentalists.

THE juvenile pupils of Sir Julius Benedict, the Misses Agnes and Violet Molyneux, gave a Pianoforte Recital on the 19th.

MR. HENRY LESLIE'S Choir Concert, on the 21st, consisted chiefly of madrigals and part-songs, with the instrumental aid of Madame NormanNéruda and Mr. Charles Halle, and the vocal assistance of Signor Federici.

MR. HALLE's third Pianoforte Recital was on the 22nd. That by Mr. E. G. Thorne will be on the 26th. Mdlle. Marie Krebs's Recital will take place next Thursday.

WE learn from the Glasgow News that Sir Julius Benedict's oratorio, 'St. Peter,' has been given at Kirkcaldy, by the musical Society established there. The Birmingham Choral Society has performed with great success Mr. Macfarren's oratorio, 'St. John the Baptist.'

Ar the Morning Italian Opera Concert, in St. James's Hall, on the 20th inst., under the direction of Signor Li Calsi and Mr. F. H. Cowen, the artists were Mesdames Tietjens, Risarelli, Roze, Macvitz, Trebelli-Bettini, and Singelli; Signori Fancelli, Rota, De Reschi, Perkins, Agnesi, Mr. Bentham, and Herr Behrens. The programme comprised familiar pieces by Cimarosa, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Halévy, Gordigioni, &c., but also included two works by Handel, sung in English, namely, "Revenge, Timotheus cries," by Signor Agnesi, and the duet, "The Lord is a man of war," by the last-mentioned artist and Signor Campoby the last-mentioned artist and Signor Campobello, and a ballad, "It was a dream," sung by Mdlle. Tietjens, which was re-demanded.

A NEW

one-act operetta, 'Le Cerisier,' the libretto by M. Jules Prévol (of the Paris Figaro), the music by M. Duprato, has been successful at the Salle Favart, supported by Mesdames Chevalier Reine and Révilly and M. Thierry. A cherry-tree, covered with fruit, seems to be the great attraction of the work.

THE Director of the Opéra-Comique has made an arrangement with Signor Verdi's publisher in Paris to produce the 'Mass' in memory of Manzoni at morning concerts, from the 4th to the 15th of June, after the first performance of the work in Milan, on the 22nd inst., the anniversary of the poet's death, under the composer's direction; the principal singers to be the same in Paris, namely, Mesdames Stoltz and Waldmann, Signori Capponi (tenor) and Maini (bass).

GLINKA's opera, the Life for the Czar,' is in preparation at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. This work, since its production at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, in 1836, has been given there some 400 times. He wrote another opera.

THERE will be a Ballad Concert, with the cooperation of the Tyrolese singers and the Hungarian band, at the Royal Albert Hall, for the WhitMonday holiday.

DRAMA

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ROYALTY.'Archie Lovell,' a Comedy, in Four Acts, founded upon Mrs. Edwardes's Novel. By F. C. Burnand.

MRS. EDWARDES, in her novels, has depicted a sort of debatable land between society and Bohemia, and has peopled it with appropriate inhabitants. In peaceful times her heroines can scarcely be distinguished from the marauders, their neighbours. When law asserts itself, however, and the time of reckoning arrives, they are provided with evidence to prove themselves peaceable, God-fearing folk, more sinned against than sinning." Characters of this kind are suited to the taste of the modern play-goer. Thay have the picturesqueness and attractiveness of impropriety without its drawbacks. As there is still a certain world which will not visit a theatre, but flocks with eagerness to the entertainments which are almost theatrical, there is another world, which, while it tabooes such studies as those of M. Barrière, M. Dumas fils, or M. Augier, likes to contemplate a woman skating on thin ice, and barely saved from immersion.

Apart from the character of its heroine, however, the novel of 'Archie Lovell,' which Mr. Burnand has now adapted for the Royalty Theatre, is suited to the purposes of a playwright. The action is simple, interesting, and direct; and the only difficulty to be got rid of springs from the fact that the main incidents occur on shipboard. In the case of a piece designed for a larger theatre this would scarcely prove a drawback. Love scenes on shipboard have proved very attractive in representation; and one piece, at least, The Overland Route, owes a large measure of its success to its pictures of flirtation and intrigue upon a steamboat.

Having regard to the dimensions of the Royalty stage, Mr. Burnand has not attempted an experiment of this class. He has followed pretty closely the main action of the novel, and has extracted from it a play which, though tedious in the early scenes, and leaving little for a dénoûment, attains, at one point, a high degree of interest.

Archie Lovell is leading, in the early scenes, a madcap existence at Mortville-sur-Mer, a French watering-place opposite Jersey. Betrothed to Major Seton, whose return from heart to her lover, but does not see any harm India is daily expected, she is constant in in indulging in a pronounced flirtation with Gerald Durant. Accompanying her admirer on board the Jersey boat, she is indiscreet

enough to allow herself to be left behind when the shore-boat leaves, and finds herself compelled to make an unexpected visit to Jersey, under Durant's escort. So soon as return is possible, she starts once more for home, and, as her father and mother are on a journey, and the captain of the vessel is bribed to secrecy, no harm, it is hoped, will come of her escapade. Two persons, however, more than have been counted upon are aware of this excursion. Captain Waters, a professional black-leg, to whom, for want of other occupation, Gerald Durant, in the intervals of flirtation, has been in the habit of losing money, has seen them, and determines to turn his knowledge to practical account. What is even more important, is, that Major Seton has recognized Archie walking under Gerald's escort through the hotel. In the third act, Archie, now in England, is compelled to meet secretly Captain Waters, who demands as the price of his silence a sum of money larger by far than she has any means of obtaining. Seton, meanwhile, aware of these interviews, jumps at the natural conclusion that the companion of Archie in Jersey and her present mysterious attendant are the same person. He rebukes her with falsehood accordingly, and declines, of course, to prosecute his suit for her hand. For a moment reconciliation seems possible, when the heroine, in tones of apparent sincerity, declares she has never seen Gerald since she parted from him in Jersey. At this unpropitious moment, however, Gerald, now Lord Rosedell, appears, and is recognized by Archie. At this apparent contradiction the Major, overpowered with emotion, sinks in a swoon, from which he only recovers to undergo a severe attack of brain-fever. A short fourth act serves to clear up matters, and ends with a pretty picture of reconciliation.

If there is nothing in this very novel or forcible, all is probable enough in fact, and in representation proves pleasantly stimulating. The scene in which Gerald untowardly re-appears is ingenious and touching, and the story throughout is of a kind to evoke the full sympathies of an audience.

Miss Henrietta Hodson is now unequalled on the London stage in presenting characters such as Archie Lovell. The waywardness and impatience of control and the spirit of mischief lurking in the heroine were agreeably depicted. Mr. George Rignold gave a striking presentation of Seton, and Mr. Peverill made the character of Waters, the one improbable personage in the play, as Other parts were natural as it could appear. adequately presented by Misses Brennan, Thorne, and Augusta Wilton, Mr. G. F. Neville, Mr. Banister, and Mr. Fosbrooke. A study of the rudiments of grammar would be of service to one or two of the subordinate actors. We exact no especially high standard from people on the stage, but find such a sentence "To whom are you speaking to," redundant, to say the least.

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A COMEDY, in four acts, entitled 'Brighton,' adapted by Mr. F. A. Marshall from a piece called Saratoga,' which obtained considerable success in the subject of 'Guy Mannering,' will be produced America, will be given at the Court Theatre on Monday; and a burlesque by Mr. Burnand, on this evening at the Vaudeville.

DE MUSSET'S 'On ne badine pas avec l'Amour' was revived on Friday, with Madame Favart in

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