THE GREAT PORCELAIN SALE
... The sale of the Dickins collection brought many exquisite objects to the hammer, some of the most important of which were carried off by Herr Goldschmidt, of Frankfurt. One of ...
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LITERARY INTERLUDES: The Evolution of the Regency Beau; Heroes of Russia and a Hero of Ireland
... LITERARY INTERLUDES The Evolution of the Regency Beau Heroes of Russia and a Hero of Ireland WHAT is a Beau? Or, rather, what was? For, of course, the title, if now applied to any living person, wou ...
LIGHT LITERATURE: The High Adventure
... LIGHT LITERATURE The High Adventure There is exquisite fragrance combined with manly strength in The High Adventure, by Hugh de Sélincourt (John Lane. 6s.). Mr. de Sélincourt has already made his ...
MUSIC NOTES
... At the end of last week the Carl Rosa Opera Com pany brought its brief London Season to a close, and though it is impossible to say that last season entirely fulfilled its early promise (a ...
LITERARY INTERLUDES: A Large Order
... LITERARY INTERLUDES A Large Order A book on nothing less than Man and the Universe, with the correspondingly ambitious purpose of bringing about a com plete and final reconciliation between orthodo ...
Three Books of Travel: AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN NIGERIA
... Three Books of Travel AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN NIGERIA The proud boast of our early English kings, that in their time a woman with her babe might walk scathe less from sea to sea, might almost-- with the ...
THE THEATRES
... MR. H. V. ESMOND'S THE O'GRINDLES AT THE PLAYHOUSE Hundreds of years ago Plato wrote, About serious matters a man should be serious, and about a matter which is not serious he should ...
MUSIC NOTES: Music and Religion
... MUSIC NOTES Music and Religion Last week a concert of music was put for ward by a member of a religious Order, which, though it could hardly be recognised as of commanding intrinsic value, raised, thr ...
THE THEATRES: MARJORY STRODE
... THE THEATRES MARJORY STRODE Mr. A. E. W. Mason's Marjory Strode, which is now running at the Playhouse, is a pleasant play. It is meant for those playgoers who like to see pretty scenery, quaint cos ...
OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MRS. DOT, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE
... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MRS. DOT/' AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. MR. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM must be, or ought to be, making three or four times the income of a Cabinet Minister-- that, I believe, is the usual way of com paring incomes. It is, of course, rather personal to touch upon the subject, but the author of all our pieces just now will forgive me since I write in congratulation, and because his name ...
OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC.: LA FILLE DU TAMBOUR-MAJOR, AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE
... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. LA FILLE DU TAMBOUR-MAJOR, AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. TO hear Offenbach's works at his champagney best, it must be with a French company. France alone has the secret still of the period in and for which they were written. The traditions of their time have been kept up over there by almost continuous revival, while elsewhere they seem to be pretty nearly lost. Our own ...
POTTED GAME
... The writer, Mr. Max Rittenberg, and the artist, Mr. George Morrow, have collaborated very amusingly in the series of notes upon sport, which have been republished from various journals in the present shilling volume. Mr. Max Rittenberg has know ledge, observation, and humour, and writes of most of our popular recreations as one who, having actually participated in their pleasures and ...