of this was undoubtedly due to the acknowledged abilities of the renowned German violinist; but the applause was indebted for some of its warmth, and some of its persistence, to the fact, that Herr Ernst had, some years ago, presented the Society with a donation of £74-his share of a concert given in conjunction with Mr. Moscheles, who retained the other £74. The recollection of such liberality no doubt had something to do with the uproarious reception bestowed on the violinist. Herr Ernst was accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr. Sterndale Bennett, whose presence gave an additional interest to the performance, which was one of the most wonderful we have heard. The encore at the end was loud and simultaneous, and Herr Ernst played the favourite Carnaval de Venise with equal The names of the glees, etc., performed were: "In sweet simplicity" (Mr. Coward); "By the deep rolling waters" (Mr. McMurdie); "Strike, strike the lyre" (T. Cooke); "Come beauteous May" (Spofforth); and "What ho, what, shepherd, ho!" (W. Beale). They were all admirably sung by Messrs. R. Barnby, Bayley, H. Barnby, J. Coward, W. Coward, Ferrari, Forster, Handel Gear, Howe, Kinkee, Land, Novello, Rovedino, Montem Smith, Whitehouse, and Young, joined occasionally by some of the principals. The most effective were the part songs for four and five voices. Messrs. Coward and McMurdie conducted; and Mr. Cipriani Potter also gave his aid.

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A very amusing farce, called A Game of Romps, has been produced at the Princess's. This, too, is from the French, the name of the original being Les Jeux Innocens, a piece in verse by M. Foussier, and first brought out at the Gymnase in 1853. Mr. J. M. Morton has adapted it for the English stage in his usual lively and telling manner. The Game of Romps explains itself. A parcel of young ladies the house of a and a merry young gentleman, staying at staid, prim old Marchioness, during her absence get up a game at forfeits and blind-man's-buff, having first prevailed delegated the watch and ordering of the young folk, to join in their upon old Dr. Rhododendron, to whom the Marchioness has sports. It has fallen to the chance of the doctor to be blindfolded, at for a victim, seizes with unusual vigour round the waist and proclaims the moment of the sudden return of the Marchioness, whom he, groping as his substitute. This is the climax of the piece, which does not tell the less because Mr. Harley plays Dr. Rhododendron, and Mrs. Winstanley the Marchioness. Of course there is a love episode, in which the old lady is foiled, and sundry juveniles made happy. The four young ladies too-Miss Leclerq, Miss Heath, Miss Murray and Miss Ternan are the very pinks of fresh looks and becoming costumes. They smile upon the farce, and the audience smile upon them-Happy author! MISS GLYN is performing to crowded audiences at the Royal Standard Theatre. The part of Cleopatra, in Shakspere's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, was selected for her début. The tragedian has taken the East Londoners by storm. Mr. Henry Marston, in Marc Antony, is also in great favour.

DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE.-At the Haymarket, a two-act drama, of some pretensions, from the pen of Mr. Stirling Coyne, entitled The Secret Agent, was brought out on Saturday. It is founded on a German five-act drama, by Herr Hackländer, called Der Geheime Agent, but has undergone considerable change in the adaptation. The plot of the first act is exceedingly complicated, and would not repay the reader in the explanation. Although taken from a German play, the tone and construction are decidedly French. Mr. Stirling Coyne, however, has attempted to render it more acceptable to the English audience by an infusion of broad farce into the second act. The two courtiers, performed by Messrs. Buckstone and Compton, are more funny than legitimate; and the introduction of the Count and Baron in the fancy ball scene, one in female attire and the other in the costume of Mephistopheles, verged on the extravagant, and brought the piece into danger. Mr. Buckstone's exquisite caricature, nevertheless, in the uniform of a Spanish danseuse carried the scene through triumphantly, and insured Agent a fair success.

Two new farces have been produced at the Adelphi within the week, both French, of course; the one called Betty Martin, an adaptation of The Secret, a little one-act piece, by Mad. Girardin, Le Chapeau d'un Horloger, brought out at the Gymnase last Christmas; the other entitled, I'll Tell your Wife, taken from Les Marquises de la Fourchette, from the pens of MM. Marc Michel and Choler, and presented last season at the Vaudeville. The first of these pieces achieved great success, owing to the inimitable acting of Mrs. Keeley. Indeed, there is little, in point of construction, or humour of dialogue, in Betty Martin, the gist of | which consists in a maid-servant throwing her newly-married master into a fit of jealousy when he finds the hat of a clockmaker in his wife's room, Betty having smuggled him in clandestinely to mend a favourite and valuable time-piece she had broken. The acting of Mrs. Keeley is, however, a masterpiece.-I'll tell your Wife is a better piece, but had not the same good fortune in its first performance on Saturday night, from what cause we could not make out. A fast young gentleman is about to marry the daughter of a doctor; but, as a farewell to his bachelorhood, before resigning himself entirely to the bonds of Hymen, he invites a young lady in a mask to dine with him at a hotel. To the same hotel, with another masked lady, comes the intended father-in-law. Both gentlemen are caught in the same trap; both try all manner of to escape detection; each finds out the other; recrimination ensues, which rises to altercation, and ultimately subsides to conciliation. In the end the ladies unmask, and show to the astonished gaze of the gentlemen the wife of the one and the intended of the other. The two gentlemen were admirably acted by Messrs. Leigh Murray and Keeley.

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company. Mrs. W. Wallack's Hermione is an effective and striking draw crowded audiences. The cast includes the whole strength of the performance.

MR. PHELPS has revived Rob Roy at Sadlers' Wells, and performs the part of Baillie Nicol Jarvie in place of the Highland Cateran, one of his most popular assumptions. We can hardly compliment Mr. Phelps on the change: his Rob Roy had merit, but his new character is an entire mistake. In London, however, where the Scotch character is little understood, the Baillie (like Shakspere's Bottom) may be represented as far as possible from what the author intended, and pass muster with the critics as well as the public. Liston's performance, a mere caricature, was lauded, some years ago, by all London, while Mackay, whom Scott himself acknowledged to have realized his creation in every respect, was quite unsuccessful on his first and only appearance on the London stage. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that Mr. Phelps, who is a favourite in the precincts of Islington and Pentonville, but who is totally mistaken in his reading of the character of Baillie Nicol Jarvie, should be applauded by those who are unable to distinguish between Scotch and not Scotch.

We have seldom had to chronicle the production of so many new pieces at the theatre, in one week. At the Lyceum on Thursday, a one act piece, called The Cozy Couple, was brought out with much success. The acting is confined to Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, and is as perfect of its kind as any we have seen for some time. A married couple, who have lived for years together calm and unruffled, have their domestic quietude broken in upon by an old friend of the husband's. After a short time the newcomer turns the household topsy-turvy, and persuades the husband that he must throw off the connubial shackles, and start with him for the Continent. The poor wife beholds the paradise of her home fading before her eyes, but makes no murmur; whereupon the friend, seeing this, grows sorry, and immediately desires to bring back the truant spouse to his lawful allegiance. In the end he succeeds, and sets himself down with the cozy couple to domesticate at their hearth. No explanation could do justice to this admirable little picture of simple life, which must be seen to be appreciated.

MAD. UGALDE has re-made a great hit at the Opéra-Comique, in her old part of Virginie, in the Caid of M. Thomas. The other parts were filled by Mad. Decroix; MM. Ponchard, SainteFoy, and Nathan. A new operetta, in one act, the music by the Prince de Moscowa, the libretto by M. Leuven, entitled Yvonne, is in active preparation.-(Extract from a private letter.)

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BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY.

[HERR RICHARD WAGNER, entertaining his own especial notions about the Choral Symphony of Beethoven, of which he is to direct the performance at the second concert of the Philharmonic Society, on Monday evening, will probably be invited to explain them, beforehand, to the audience. He will scarcely do this viva voce; but it is not improbable that something like the following interesting rhapsody may find its way into the printed programme-ED. M. W.]

Ir is a difficult matter for any one, not intimately acquainted with this wonderfully significant work of art, to understand it on the first hearing. Hence it may be permitted to offer some aid to that considerable portion of an audience, who find themselves in this predicament; not indeed with a view to imparting an absolute understanding of Beethoven's masterpiece-since that can only come from intimate personal study and insight-but simply with the hope of furnishing some hints illustrative of its artistic arrangement, which, in the great peculiarity and entirely unimitated novelty of the work, might escape the observation of the unprepared and easily-confused hearer. Taking it for granted that it is the essential problem of the higher instrumental music, to express in tones what cannot be expressed in words, we think we can approximate to the solution of an insoluble problem by calling in the aid of words of our great poet, Göthe. These, to be sure, stand in no immediate connection with Beethoven's work, and can in no wise indicate the meaning of his purely musical creation with any thoroughness. Yet so nobly do they express those higher moods of the human soul which lie at the foundation of this symphony, that, in the impossibility of any fuller understanding, one may content himself with identifying these moods, so that he need not go away from a hearing of the music without at least some appreciation of its purport.

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which has only power to raise itself again to new defiance and resistance, and to new wrestlings with the demon who robs us of true joy. Thus force, resistance, struggle, longing, hoping, almost reaching, again losing, again seeking, again battlingsuch are the elements of restless movement in this marvellous piece of music, which droops, however, now and then into that more continuous state of utter joylessness, which Göthe denotes by the words :"But to new horrors I awake each morn;

And I could weep hot tears, to see the sun Dawn on another day, whose round forlorn Accomplishes no wish of mine-not one; Which still, with froward captiousness, impairs E'en the presentiment of ev'ry joy; While low realities and paltry cares The spirit's fond imaginings destroy; And then, when falls again the veil of night, Stretch'd on my couch I languish in despair, Appalling dreams my troubled soul affright, No soothing rest vouchsafed me even then," etc. At the close of the movement, this dreary, joyless mood, growing to gigantic magnitude, seems to embrace the ALL, as if in grand and awful majesty it would fain take possession of this world which God has made-for Joy.

SECOND MOVEMENT-Scherzo Molto Vivace.-A wild delight seizes us at once with the first rhythm of the second movement; it is a new world into which we enter, in which we are whirled away to giddiness, to loss of reason; it is as if urged by desperation, we fled before it, in ceaseless, restless efforts chasing a new and unknown happiness, since the old one, that once sunned us with its distant smile, seems to have utterly forsaken us. Göthe expresses this impulse, not without significence perhaps for the present case, in the following words :

*This in most of the translations is rendered :-" Renounce! Thou must renounce!" But the word "entbehren" does not signify "renounce." The meaning of the phrase is-for it cannot be given in a word-that it is the destiny of man always to have wants which cannot be satisfied.

"The end I aim at is not joy

I crave excitement, agonizing bliss."

"In depths of sensual pleasure drown'd,
Let us our fiery passions still!
Enwrapped in magic's veil profound,
Let wondrous charms our senses thrill!
Plunge we in Time's tempestuous flow,
Stem we the rolling surge of Chance!
There may alternate weal and woe,
Success and failure, as they can,
Mingle and shift in changeful dance;
Excitement is the sphere for man!"

With the headlong entrance of the middle subject, there suddenly opens upon us one of those scenes of earthly recreation and indulgence; a certain downright jollity seems expressed in the simple, oft-repeated theme; it is full of naïveté and selfsatisfied cheerfulness, and we are tempted to think of Göthe's description of such homely contentment :

"I now must introduce to you,
Before aught else this jovial crew,

To show how lightly life may glide away
With them each day's a holiday;
With little wit and much content,

Each on his own small round intent," ete.

But to recognise such limited enjoyment as the goal of our restless chase after satisfaction and the noblest joy, is not our