... . Mr. Edward H. Cooper has been proposing in the columns of the Daily Mail an interesting self-denying ordinance; that is to say, the majority of our novelists should abstain for a period of five years from adding a more to the immortal literature of their country. I am afraid such a proposal is exceedingly quixotic, not to say Utopian. There is not the slightest likelihood that any of the men ...

... THE WORLD OF MUSIC FespfoipEffiieff's .iradl FefrtfoffTnasifmceSa A Storv of Heerediis. Hegedüs, the violinist who has been giving recitals in London and Paris, has many odd recollections of his childhood. When quite a small boy he was examined by a German professor, who, however, after hearing a few notes, declined to hear the child. Hegedus departed disheartened, but ventured forth again the ...

... Stories oil ilhe Momento o Sweden's Queen. AN English couple touring in Sweden hap pened to get into conversation with a lady about Keswick in the Lake District. A very distinguished countryman of yours goes every year to Keswick, said the Englishman; I mean the Crown Prince of Sweden. Yes, said the lady, that is how we know the Lake District so well. But I was speaking of the Crown ...

... William Pitt. By Charles Whibley. With portraits and caricatures. 6s. net. (William Blackwood and Sons.) Mr. Whibley is known to all as a devoted student of the life and work of the great son of Chatham. His latest book happily commemorates the centenary of the death of Pitt, and all who admire the great statesman and who also appreciate style in bookmaking should possess this admi rable study ...

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... . Georgina Delmar.-- Miss Georgina Delmar, who played the title-rôle in Audran's opera, La Toledad, on its first production in London at the Kennington Theatre last April and who has resumed the part in the condensed version of the opera at the Palace Theatre, is really English. In the early nineties Miss Del mar studied for four years under Signor Albert Visetti at the Royal College of Music, ...

... PLAYS. MUSIC. AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Walls of Jericho.-- It is a strange but rather interesting play that Mr. Alfred Sutro has written for Mr. Bourchier at the Garrick. We know Mr. Sutro, the translator of Maeterlinck. We have read Mr. Sutro as a historian of the ways of the Wood in a series of short stories. The Walls of Jericho has a touch of both, for the play ...

... FIUAYSp MUSIC, AB3 OT111 EBJTE1TAIHMEMTS 'WoK. Iby W]&° Orphee at the Opera.-- The production of Orphée at Covent Garden, to which I just made an allusion last week, proved very interesting indeed, although I prefer it sung in Italian. Madame Kirkby Lunn sings the music of Orphée beautifully, but I wonder why she seems to scowl so much in the part she plays? Perhaps scowl is too strong a ...

... BRITISH TRADE AND THE ZOLLVEREIN ISSUE. By Leone George Chiozza. (Commercial Intelligence Publishing Company, Ltd.) is. net.-- The second edition of this interesting and authorita tive little handbook-- No. 1 of Sell's Commercial Intelligence handbooks appears opportunely at the present time when all the world is humming with expectation of a coming Zollverein campaign and possibly a fierce ...

... PLAYS. MUSIC. AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Italian Season at Covent Garden.-- The season of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company at Covent Garden has begun, Mr. Henry Russell (the brother of Mr. Landon Ronald) being billed as manager and Signer Cam panini as conductor. This week they are giving Manon Lescaut, Aida, La Tosca, Rigoletto, and Carmen. Among the artists I may say that ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC. AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Irish Instinct for the Play While Mr. Henry Arthur Jones is hammering away at his idea of a great national drama and pulverising Claphamism and our dull little brick boxes of houses, Young Ireland is quietly creating a real national drama, which even in its poorest form is astonish ing everybody who comes in contact with it. The visit ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC. AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Flood of Plays.-- --I am an inveterate playgoer, but I am bound to admit that if I had many fortnights to go through like the one beginning on February 8 I should soon be fit for a hospital. My diary has run February 8 .-An Actor's Romance- Camden 10. The Love Birds Savoy n. A Queen's Romance Imperial 13 .--My Lady of Rosedale New 15.-- ...