_Thursday._--Long live the _Don_! _Vive_ MOZART! _Don Giovanni's_ taste as to ladies changed as he grew older. The two musical Duchesses who accompany _Don Ottavio_ when he is singing are usually, fine and large; but _Zerlina_, the _Don's_ latest fancy, is _petite_. Why does Signor CARACCIOLO make _Masetto_ an idiotic old bumpkin? EDOUARD DE RESZKÉ is admirable as the cowardly _Leporello_, and MAUREL fine as the Im-maurel Don. With what an air he salutes _Zerlina_! The air is MOZART's "_La ci darem_," and therefore perfect. ZÉLIE DE LUSSAN delightful as that arrant flirt _Zerlina_. The Statue was rather in the dark. The Stalls couldn't see him "noddin', nid nid noddin'." Let Sir DRURIOLANUS look to this, and say to the Limelighter, quoting GOËTHE, "More light! More light!" _Friday._--_Carmen._ Commend me at once to Madame DESCHAMPS-JEHIN as _Carmen_. Her name is too long, and there's a little too much of her, figure-ratively speaking. A trifle over-size for quite an ideal _Carmen_, but then Madame D.-JEHIN is so good that we cannot have too much of her. Acting excellent. Madame EMMA EAMES EMMA-nently first-rate as _Michaela_. We all know JEAN DE RESZKÉ'S _Don José_, which up to now is hard to beat; so for LASSALLE as _Escamillo_,--the great song encored, of course. Signor CARACCIOLO as _Dancairo_ (of a mixed race, Irish Dan and Egyptian Cairo--a regular Bohemian), and RINALDINI as _Remendado_, capital, not overdone. Mlle. BAUERMEISTER as _Frasquita_, and AGNES JANSON as _Mercedes_, looked winning, especially when playing cards. _Saturday._--_Cavalleria Rusticana._ Most appropriate when everybody is talking of the elections and "going to the country." * * * * * GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. LETTER I. (_From Miss Mary Logic to Miss Rosa Blackbord._) _Coached Cottage._ MY DEAR ROSA, I fancy I told you that my Uncle JACK was coming home from sea. I had not seen him for six years--in fact he left England when I was a child of four or so. As you know, I am now ten. I naturally was rather curious to meet him. Well he is here, and I am fairly puzzled. He is rather a nice fellow--partly educated. He is distinctly shaky with his Classics, and has evidently forgotten half his Mathematics. However we got on pretty well. He seemed to be interested in my lecture upon Astronomy, and said "I seemed to be a hand at Chemistry." Well so I am. As you know, when I was a mere child I was always fond of experiments of an analytical character. He asked me if I had a doll, and I suppose he referred to the old lay-figure that I was wont to sketch before I took to studying from the nude. And now you will ask, why I am writing to you, when both you and I are so busy--when we are both preparing for matriculation? When we have so little spare time at our disposal?