... A Bohemian's Reminiscences THE BOOKSHELF Two Clever New Novels A Stepson of Fortune Is the only title of kinship to that capricious lady claimed by Mr. Henry Murray, and, as such, bestowed upon the ...

... THE LIBRARY MODERN DOGS (TERRIERS). PROBABLY no other pen than Mr. Rawdon B. Lee's could have provided owners, breeders, ex hibitors, and sportsmen with such a fund of in formation as is contained in Modern Dogs (Horace Cox). The volume, which treats of terriers, was first published in 1894. It has now reached its third edition, and the oppor tunity has been taken of placing before the doggie ...

... Charles Dana Gibson is one of the most talented and most popular of American black and white artists. His work, which happily combines draughtsmanship with idea and humour with grace, has been made familiar on this side by Messrs. Henderson and .Sons in their success ful publication, Pictorial Comedy. This enterpris ing firm have now issued a Gibson Calendar for 1905, which will appeal to all ...

... . By Vedette. IF it had not been for the enterprise of Mr. Gaston Mayer at the Royalty, I should not have had many new plays to write about lately, and unfortunately those that he gives me to discuss are decidedly out of the line of the London playgoer. There really seems to be only one subject for the popular Parisian playwright of to-day, who would feel his list of dramatis 'personal to be ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MR, SHERIDAN, AT THE GARRICK THEATRE. TO be satisfactory in every way, a piece about Sheridan ought to be written by another Sheridan, if-- which would be admittedly difficult-- another Sheridan could be found. I think that he would be found in Ireland if anywhere, for Sheridan was before all else Irish, both in his personal character and in his work for the stage. Those ...

... THE DKAMA. See also page 206.) Haymarket. EXCEPT as a modern fairy-story it is not very easy to classify Mr. W. J. Locke's new play, The Palace of Puck, which, in its methods, half-whimsical and half-serious, re calls the Engaged of Mr. W. S. Gilbert more nearly per haps than any other production of our day. Happily, however, classification is not necessary to enjoyment, and we may relish ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. I AM told that Mr. Tree's Shakespearean revivals have been financially successful. This is satisfactory for Mr. Tree, and evidently also to at least a certain section of playgoers. Whether these faithful supporters of His Majesty's like the scenery most, or most like the act ing, or whether indeed they are at tracted by ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A NIGHT OUT, AT THE CRITERION THEATRE. A Night Out, by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Des vallières, came to us first in 1906 from Paris by way of America, and had a run of 500 performances. The only member of the Vaudeville company who reappears in the Criterion revival is Mr. George Giddens. Miss Fannie Ward as the heroine, Mrs. Edmund Phelps as the deceived wife, Mr. ...

... . It goes without saying that there was a crowded attend ance here 011 Tuesday afternoon to witness the revival of- Mr. W. S. Gilbert's parody of Hamlet, entitled Bosen- crantz and Gvildenstern, which was presented for the benefit of the Bushey Heath Cottage Hospital. Apart from the fun of the thing, there was the promise that the various parts would be sustained by well-known writers, ...

... . MR. F. C. SELOUS'S museum at Worplesdon, in Surrey, which has been recently much enlarged, contains un doubtedly the most wonderful one-man collection of big game trophies in Europe. Here are to be seen, by the courtesy of the owner, the matchless collection of heads and horns acquired by the great hunter during a career of more than twenty-five years in South Africa. In later years Asia ...

... LATE THEATRES. A Judge's Memory, at Terry's. MR. BRANDON THOMAS'S new play is not another Charley's Aunt, and it is only fair to him to admit that, save as re gards its possible success, he evidently did not intend it to be. His central study of character in A Judge's Memory, as his piece at Terry's is called, has a pathetic rather than a comic interest, and his plot is on the lines of ...

... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vebette. I DO not suppose for a moment that, when last season Mr. Frederick Harrison revived The Man from Blankley's, he regarded it as anything but a stop-gap. The original run of Mr. Anstey's piece, with Mr. Charles Hawtrey in the rôle which fitted him so well, was still fresh in the memory of playgoers, too fresh to make it seem likely that the fun would catch on ...