Next week's racing furnishes quite a lengthy _menu_, with several attractive _entrees_, and some good "made-up-overnight" dishes; in fact, a programme which appeals strongly to every racy palate. I do not propose to work my way through the entire _menu_ (not being an Alderman), and will only hint at a few of the side-dishes, which may be worth attention reserving my great effort for the "_plat de resistance_" at Sandown; so, at Newmarket--try just a mouthful of July Handicap _a la_ Duke of DEVONSHIRE's "Selected;" should it choke you, have a pat on the "Bach" when attacking the Beaufort _Stakes_; and to wind up with dessert, worthy of a CHESTERFIELD, take a "Meddler." If this conglomeration of good things is not too much for you, travel back to town in time for the great race of the week; but, _if_ upset, don't blame, Yours devotedly, LADY GAY. "ECLIPSE STAKES SELECTION." With _Gouverneur_, _Orme_, and such giants to run, It needs the cool calm of a PLATO To fix on the horse that will "capture the bun!" But I think it will be "_Orvieto_." * * * * * OPERATIC NOTES. [Illustration: Fancy Sketch for a Brazen Statue of a Composer notable for his "Horns and Brass."] _Tuesday._--_Premiere_ of _Elaine_. BEMBERG Composer, LEON-JEHIN Conductor, and Sir DRURIOLANUS Producer. Full House, determined to give New Opera a fair hearing, and sit it out. Don't get a new Opera every day. Congratulations to BEMBERG in a general way. "In a first Opera" (if this be his first), to quote the Composer of the recent De-La-ra-Boom Buddha, who was complacently listening to the other Composer's new Opera, "originality breeds contempt." So a little bit here, and a little bit there, here a bit, and there a bit, and everywhere a bit, gets rid of all superfluity in the Composer's brain, and saves the listening critic much trouble. Then his next Opera--Ah!--_that_ ought to be all genuinely new and original Sparkling BEMBERG Cabinet. "_Elaine_," observed a lady critic, "is graceful and airy"--which, in the lady's presence, the present listener was not prepared to deny.