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THE total receipts of Edwin Booth's season in San Francisco amounted to $68,302, the last night's receipts being $2,300. This, says Music and Drama of that city, is a great contrast to the elder Booth's engagement in that city in 1852, which extended from July 30 to August 15, at the Jennie Lind Theatre, and proved disastrous, as did his five-nights' engagement at the Adelphi Theatre on Dupont Street. In fact, it is said that the great Junius Brutus never recovered from the humiliation of his San Francisco experience. He left October 1 for New Orleans, leaving Edwin behind,

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and died November 23, while en route to Cincinnati on board the steamboat J. M. Chenowith.

THE Tribune's London correspondent says that the popular success of Mr. Gillette s American drama, "Held by the Enemy," is confirmed; that since it took its place in the regular bill of the Princess's Theatre its reception has been not less enthusiastic than when' produced at the matinee. Mr. Archer in The World remarks: "Some people seem to have feared the British public would decline to be interested in a play dealing with the American war. Never was there a greater mistake. The blue uniforms were half the battle. Mr. Gillette's play is not even American enough." The critics complain of the construction of the piece, and deplore its want of literary merit; but it fills the Princess's Theatre every night," and that is worth considering.

CHARLES READE wrote this about Ellen Terry in his scrap-book:

Ellen Terry, a young lady highly gifted with what Vol taire justly calls te grand art de plaire. She was a very promising actress, married young to Mr. Watt, the painter. Unfortunate differences ended in a separation, and, instead of returning to the stage, she wasted some years in the country In 1873 I coaxed her back to play Philippa at the Queen's Theatre, and she was afterward my leading actress in a provincial tour. She played Helen Rolleston very finely (Foul Play) In 1875 engaged to play Portia at the Prince of Wales' Theatre; and her performance is the principal histrionic attraction, the Shylock of Mr. Coghlan being considered somewhat slow and monotonous. Terry is an enigma. Her eyes are pale, her nose rather

Ellen

long, her mouth nothing particular. Comp exion a delicate

brick dust, her hair rather like tow. Yet somehow she is beautiful Her expression kills any pretty face you see beside her. Her figure is lean and bony, her hand masculine in size and form. Yet she is a pattern of fawnlike grace, whether in movement or repose. Grace pervades the hussy. In character impulsive, intelligent, weak, hysterical-in short, all that is abominable and charming in woman.

IT may be interesting to know how the custom of standing during the Halleluja Chorus originated. At the first performance of the "Messiah," the audience were much affected by the music in general, but when the chorus struck up "For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth," they were all so transported that they, together with the king (who was present), started up and remained standing till the chorus ended, and thence it became the fashion in England for the audience to stand while that part of the music is performing.

MISS WICKHAM will give a reading at the Madison Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 25, at 4 P. M. She will read Robert Browning's "The Flight of the Duchess" and "The Statue and the Bust."

THE Paris correspondent of the London World says that while at work on his book on Napoleon, M. Taine told the Princess Mathilde he was afraid that she would not read his judgments with pleasure. The Princess very kindly replied that she naturally could not judge Napoleon so severely as M. Taine probably would, for, had it not been for the great Emperor, she might have been selling oranges in the streets of Ajaccio instead of receiving her friends in the Rue de Berrie. Nevertheless," she added, "I trust to your tact and good taste." And now," says this correspondent, "since the publication of his two articles in the Reveu des Deux Mondes, M. Taine has not appeared at the Princess's receptions, and, irritated at his neglect, the Princess has deposited her card, with P. P. C. in the corner, in the safe keeping of M. Taine's concierge. The story is that Taine opened his soul to M. Renan, and said, 'I shall never

ALSO: "That clever and sprightly journalist, the London correspondent of the New York Tribune, blue the trumpet for her pretty loudly.

How would she have fared if she'd had to be judged,
By a critic like what-you-MACAULAY?

For the praise she received and which he would have grudged,
She is Greatly indebted to SMALLEY.

The lady may be possessed of some wonderworking charm, and, as we are but ordinary clay, what shall we become in the hands of the BROWN POTTER?"

IN spite of the failure of his new opera, "Saint-Saëns" has undoubtedly been the hero of this season in Paris. His latest symphony which was composed for, and performed by the London Philharmonic last year, was not heard in Paris till this season. Critics and public alike were very enthusiastic, and some ardent admirer pronounced it the most important symphonic work since Mendelssohn. Gounod, who is always ready with a little speech, with generous self-denial exclaimed, Frenchmen, behold your Beethoven!"

THE Evening Post declares that Gilbert and Sullivan are neglecting an excellent opportunity if they fail to take up the novel device of the German chemist who has invented a new kind of anæsthetic bullet, which he urges would greatly diminish the horrors of war. The bullet is of a brittle substance, and breaks directly it comes in contact with the object at which it is aimed. It contains a powerful anesthetic,