... 6$ 551 a r tit tire Ulttp^ncs WAR IN THE ANGLO-SAXON LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S princely quarterly now makes its appearance for the third time. The new volume is as hand somely bound as its predcesso ...

... fUfo flobds GHOSTS ANYBODY bent upon scaring an ordinarily imaginative child into a chronic nightmare cannot possibly do better than procure for him, or her, the volume entitled Ghosts: being the Ex ...

... . IN this book' the author, who styles himself The Old Pioneer, gives an account of many rumblings in various parts of the world. He seems to have had a long and varied career-- sometimes engaged in sport and travel in different regions of South Africa; sometimes engaged as a trader among the Boers of the Orange Free State sometimes turning up in New Zealand in the character of a Remittance ...

... IT would seem, after all, that within a few years the theatrical hub of Western London will be found not far removed from that very Shaftesbury-avenue whose first experiments proved so unpromising. Mr. Lancaster and Mr. D'Oyly Carte were the pioneers, but others are reaping the profit of their pluck and enterprise, for the district has gradually be come recognised by the amusement-seeking ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. RUPERT OF HENTZAU AT THE ST. JAMES'S. Rupert of Henlzau is, I think, as good a play as The Prisoner of Zenda-- not to say that either niece is very good indeed. The fact is that Mr. Anthony Hope has yet to prove himself a sufficiently strong playwright to do full justice on the stage to his own books. It requires, we know, almost brutal force, sometimes, to change a novel ...

... ^Ite theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS MRS. JORDAN THE Mrs. Jordan, of stage history, was of a gay and playful nature, but she could hardly have been so unwisely freakish as the heroine of Miss Constance Sme ...

... (21 he ^luatres By W. MOY THOMAS DON JUAN'S LAST WAGER ALL that tuneful music and graceful dancing, beautiful scenery and brilliant costumes could do to make the new play at the PRINCE OF WALES'S The ...

... London, 28th February, igoo. It is somewhat interesting to note Mr. Lang's pathetic appeal for security of tenure for writers in the latest issue of Longman's Magazine. There is very little meaning in the complaint. Were things any better with the author or the journalist in the days when remunera tion was one-tenth what it now is? If it be true that certain journals attach importance to youth ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. VT A REHEARSAL-- THE BISHOP'S EYE. THERE was a bishop-- an Irish bishop-- once who was also by turns a highwayman. Why then should not an arch deacon be an occasional burglar? I quote the precedent and ask tho question because hypercritical people may think that if we must have church dignitaries upon the stage at all, we ought to treat them better than we do usually. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAGDA, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL is an actress-manager, and Magda is a play which a lady free to choose her own part can scarcely be blamed for selecting. All the glory goes to the heroine, and it is rather easily won glory, coming as it does chiefly from declamation, in which most women who are women can without great effort hold their own. I do not ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. DON JUAN'S LAST WAGER I do not want to see Don Juan's Last Wager a second time, nor do I wish again to hear the music-- I got a little tired of both. Was there any need of yet another version of the old Spanish legend, or of its latest orchestral associations? I think not; for the stage performance is not sufficiently in teresting, and, except for the dances, I should ...

... London, March 14th, 1900. Although it is true that there has been some curtailment of book sales owing to the war, none the less people are at the moment reading novels with consider able avidity. A Double Thread, by Miss Fowler, and Red Pottage, by Miss Cholmondeley, still apparently take the highest places in point of popularity with many of the London booksellers, but there are a number of ...