... THINGS NEW AT THE THEATRES. THE St. James's Theatre must have been rather surprised when asked to welcome Valentine, a new romantic comic opera, for I do not think the memory of living dramatic critic runs to the time when a work of this kind was presented at the theatre so long associated with Sir George Alexander. And why comedy opera?-- a description obviously bad as grammar, of a ...

... LITERATURE Some New Books of the Day. On thj Eaves of the World Under the title of On the Eaves of the World (Edward Arnold) Mr. Reginald Farrer tells in two portly volumes the first half of the story of his travels with a fellow botanist, Mr. Lurdom, through the Kansu-Tibet country bordering on Western China, 1914-15. Their object was to obtain hitherto unknown species of Alpine plants ...

... oVb c/I^o *?S Srx^o 4vS ?*Vo -#VW VAa vVw yv -o *7i oWS v*! yv >vS yv^o Sv*? yirr ivC eTvw ?V* r,r*> Wli if/s nv 1 H 1 Books of the Week 1 W P 2p^iia@PSPMS@Pfl0siPfflP:a0PE0pMjpi The Tree of Heaven A WAR-NOVEL quite in the front rank is May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven (Cassell: 6s. net). It is impossible to resist saying that the book is a sort of Mrs. Britling. The Harrisons live in ...

... .giro w\ l| Books of the Week iHEmEEEMMTOromEaMffiEml East-Enders n MOST of the East-Enders who people Mr. Thomas Burke's short novel, Twinkletoes (Grant Richards: 5s. net), are dreadfully villainous. In fact, the whole atmosphere is foggy with villainy, suppressed or otherwise. There is Twinkletoes's father, who takes to forgery in order to give his child the wonderful little music-hall ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ALADDIN, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. IT is understood that now adays, on account of shortage of labour, no stage piece of a spectacular nature, if it is a revue or musical comedy, is ever produced on the date originally announced. (You know the tag-- Revues are postponed. not produced.) In fact the date first given is understood to be one of those practical jokes which has ...

... . THE whole company which was until recently playing at the Gaiety has been transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre, where it began operations with a musical comedy adapted from the French by Mr. Austen Hurgon and Mr. George Arthurs. Yes, Uncle ought to be as successful as anything which this clever company has ever done. Its chief feature is Mr. Leslie Henson, who has a very long part, ...

... THE CRITIC ON ^THE^llEARTH BY A. ST. TOHN ADCOCK cr*=^S5 OF course, there is any amount of humbug in Spiritualism-- there is in all the arts and sciences-- but does this entitle one to say there is nothing else in it? Edward Clodd appears to think so. His attack on it in The Question is one of the fiercest things of the kind I have come across. He considers that when Spiritualism is dead and ...

... I i Books of the Week i )^u.5iSDDi^njiss!!iii5a]!wnoicoisstn!Sii!iesnjia^fflsmgs' The Heritage gj of Elise jS THE heroine of Miss Mary Skrine's new novel, The Heri tage of Elise (Arnold: 6s. net), is a girl of the streets. Fortune is not too kind to Elise of the many surnames, yet she is really a millionairess, which most ladies of her kind are not. Just why she is never permitted to enjoy ...

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... . RARELY has there been so auspicious a combination of artistic and literary production as is obvious in The Western Front, Vol. II.: One Hundred Drawings by Muirhead Bone, with Text by C. E. Montague (published by authority of the War Office, 20, Tavistock Street, W.C.). The artist has portrayed his subjects with convincing force and fidelity, and the writer has expressed in words the very ...

... . DRURY LANE is content to run upon traditional lines this year, without attempting anything noticeably new. It may, of course, be that the expert in the art of the ballet would notice some new effects achieved, some departure from the beaten track; but to those who look with just the general eye it will seem the customary vision of gorgeousness, in which the chief feature is a revel of ...

... OUR OAPTIOUS CRITIC. PAMELA. AT THE PALACE THEATRE. ALTHOUGH it was almost, certain that romantic musical comedy would again become a fashion, and that Daly's Theatre would not be left alone in its glory to provide that kind of fare, no one expected it would he at the Palace Theatre that the nearest approach to the magic of the pre- war article would be found. For this theatre. though it has ...