27 AUGUST 1831, page 18

Treatrical Gossir.—the Note Of Preparation Is Already...

Winter Theatres. The hundreds of Drury have mistaken several of the late thunder-claps for the roar of the Lions. The sweeter notes of Mr. Wools are anticipated with less awe,......

The Spectator's Library.

WE have perused the latter portions of the Autobiography of' LAVALLETTE with much eagerness and delight. The stay is a ro- mantic one, told with great animation. In the various......

Banister's Vocal Music.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATOR. 17, Hadlow Street, Burton Crescent, 22nd August 1331. r Sin—Will you permit me to correct a mistake of persons into which you have fallen in your......

New Books.

BIOGRAPHY, The Memoirs of Count Lavallette, by Himself... 2 Vols. PONTItY, A Vision of Hell •••••• BOTANY, Patrick's Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire ; with I an Introduction to......

The Musical Festivals—handel's Messiah.

IT has always been a custom religiously adhered to at the cere- bration of the provincial Musical Festivals, from the time of HAN-. DEL to the present, to allot one of the three......