12 FEBRUARY 1898, Page 26

The Dome. (The Unicorn Press.)—This little quarterly is always welcome.

From an announcement in the present number we learn with pleasure that the publishers are about to reproduce Piranesi's Carceri. These are the engravings founded on the artist's nightmares which De Quincey describes so powerfully in his "Opium-Eater." " Wanted, an English Bayreuth," is an excellent appeal from Mr. Runciman for the production of operas in England on really artistic principles. To realise how much this new departure is needed, one has only to recollect the final scene of Don Giovanni as performed at Covent Garden last summer. In this performance the statue in the closing scene had to sing that heart-quaking music of death and fate, while one half of his body was illuminated with magenta light and the other with pea-green.