... . SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEAER There has reached us from America an admirably sensible and scholarly work, Sidelights on Shakespeare, published at $1.50, by the Stratford Company, Boston, Mass. This is from the accomplished pen of Edwin Gordon Lawrence. Director of the Lawerence School of Oratory, New York, who has turned his special knowledge to excellent account in the short chap ter, the ...

... . WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE very welcome is the revised and enlarged edition of Who's Who in the Theatre (London: Hir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.), for the preceding edition, which was the fourth, la now six years old. As Mr. John Parker, the Indefatifthre compiler and editor of tills valuable biographical handbook of the contemporary stage, says in a brief prefatory note, great changes ...

... . THB ORIGIN OF ROMEO AND JULIET Bibllographical scholarship and artistic book production are exemplified admirably in a most interesting volume or Shakeapearean importance to be credited to Maurice Jonas whose book on Shakespeare and the Stage we reviewed very fully on its publication by Davie and Orioll three and a-half ihy beautifully '-o^and ^taca1 net* Wc 'l'11 ivnio ttaT length v ...

... . THE EXEMPLARY THEATRE. It is impossible to deal exhaustively or even adequately in a neccessarily short notice with such a closely reasoned plea for the recognition of the theatre as an educational force as Harley Granville-Barker's The Exemplary Theatre (Chatto and Windus, 9s. net). The book is rightly described officially as not presenting any cut- and-drled plan. It- ts ...

... OUT OF MY COFFIN By Marchr&a Vitelleicki (Stella Rho) Delicate as a small child, Marchesa Vitelleschi was taken for dead. It was not until she was being carried in her coffin to the hearse, that she was discovered to be still alive. In Out of My Coffin (published by Hurst and Blackett, 12s. 6d. net), she writes an account of her subsequent life. Godchild of the late Queen Mar- gherita ...

... . GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. Marked by Archibald Haddon's well-known fearlessnoss and direct bluntness of expression is his volume of Green Room Gossip (Stanley Paul and Co., 6s, net), reprinted mainly from the columns of the Daily Express, to which paper the author has contributed for twenty years, and of tho Hvnilay Kxprest. Mr. Haddon an excellent photograph of whom serves as frontispiece ...

... . Plays and Controversies. There may seem to be far-off echoes of old squabbles and contests, half-dead but not forgotten, in the first part of the volume, by W. B. Yeats, thus entitled, and published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd.; at 10s. 6d. net; yet, as is said by the eloquent and siastic qnthor, of whom a speaking likeness, from a charcoal drawing by John 8. Sargent, serves as ...

... . AN APPRECIATION OF H. B. Amother volume in the series of Notable Trials, published by William Hodge and Co., Ltd., is that on the Trial of the Wainwrights (10s. 6d., net), now issued. The facts that this, like other volumes on Franz Muller and Mr. Maybrick, had been edited by H B. Irving, and that he died? whilst the -nook was still in tlie {hands pf 'the publishers, toave led to Stfr ...

... . ADVICE TO AUTHORS. The Authors', Playwrights', and Composers' Handbook. 3s. 6d. John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd. A most valuable book to authors, composers, playwrights, and others, has just been publislicd under the title of the 44 Authors', Playwrights', and Composers' Handbook. It has been compiled by D. Kilham Roberts, M.A.. secretary of the Incorporated Society of Authors, ...

... . The honourable and not uneventful career of a pattern journalist of the older school is set forth, with abundant anecdote and in generally chronological order, in My Lifes Pilgrimage, by the septuagenarian Thomas Catling, now issued, in a demy octavo volume, at 10s. 6d. net. by John Murray. Many salutary lessons for professional writers and artists alike mignt be found in those series ...

... . NOVELISTS AM) DRAMATISTS, It is astonishing, when one reflects on the axiom, truism, platitude, what you will, that the task of dramatising a novel is a supremely difficult and irksome one, how many novelists turn so readily to plav-writing, or contrari-wise, how frequently a matist doubles the role with that of novelists. A notable case in point has just been afforded by tho association ...

... . THE CHURCH AND THE STAGE. The Church and the Stage, the early history of the Actors' Church Union, by the Rev. Donald Hole, has just been published by the Faith Press, Ltd., at 2s. 6d. paper and 3s. 6d. cloth. The Rev. Donald Hole, who is of course well known as the secretary of the Actors Church Union, has covered his subject admirably. He traces the first attempts to bring the ...