... Up to the present, no announcements have been made concerning the casts which will appear in the two cycles of the Ring and Die Meistersinger that are to begin at Covent Garden on April ...

... T3ie Theatres THE CENSORSHIP The manifesto against the censorship is the question of the moment in the theatrical world. Seventy-one dramatists are in favour of the abolition, of the insti tution on t ...

... Some Mew Novels ARETHUSA Mr. F. Marion Crawford has succeeded to admiration in giving vigorous life to a period so much in need of it, for modern readers, as the latter days of the Byzantine Empire i ...

... The Theatres I0LANTHE AGAIN Iolanthe, chosen by ballot as the last revival in the Gilbert and Sullivan series before the SAVOY passes into the hands of Messrs. Vedrenne and Barker, if not one of the ...

... Alike as soldier and civilian, Sir Owen Burne has had a distinguished career. He is old enough to remember the hard fighting of the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. In the first he won hi ...

... Vasari, besides being a celebrated architect and painter, was a biographer and art-critic of considerable note. Moreover, he was a contemporary of those artists of whom he wrote, and a p ...

... Somo New Books A MIGHTY HUNTER All travellers, sportsmen and naturalists will thoroughly appreciate and enjoy Mr. C. G. Schillings's new book, In Wildest Africa (Hutchinson). The work is a supple me ...

... THE NEW REIGN AT THE COURT In succeeding a poor government it is comparatively easy to do well, but in succeeding a good one it is necessary to consider the strength and look for the we ...

... Some New Books THE TRAGIC YEARS OF NAPOLEON There is no story in the annals of the modern world more dramatic than that of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it has enlisted countless pens. He has been extolled ...

... Soma New Books THE NEW JAPAN Japan aims to be the leader of a revived Asia, says Mr. F. A. McKenzie in The Unveiled East (Hutchinson). She is advancing to-day along three lines-- territorial expa ...

... Etlen Plirillpotts's Latest j the whirlwind The latest and, in many respects, the most powerful of Mr. Eden Phillpotts's novels (with twelve illustrations of the scenery: Chapman and Hall) cannot po ...

... The Theatres MORE AMERICANA Wonderful, wonderful, and yet again wonderful is the exhibition of the simple fare which satisfies the theatre-going public in America, as shown by such pieces as Strong ...