... and colour and the irresistible go and gaiety of his best previous successes I have not been able to find. For my enjoyment speaking only for myself of course a great deal of his setting is altogether too rapid and too unemphatic in a dramatic sense a continuous ...

... to despise gags, and they are not slow to call to their assistance the great authority who condemned those fun-makers who speak moro than is set down for them but it is easy to believe that Shakespeare himself in his most solemn moods would have been ...

... lovers of works that discuss some unwholesome problem that within the theatre had better been left without discussion, will speak of The Talk of the Town as so much nonsense. Well, a little excellent fooling now and then not only does no harm, but is positively ...

... comic episodes in the performance, which owes a great deal to the admirable acting of Mr. Arthur Williams. It is impossible to speak too well of the unobtrusive finish and consist ency of his old Fullalove before the mes merist appears 011 the scene, or of ...

... was an Irish mag strate I learn from Who's Who that he was a J P of _ county Roscommon and therefore it may be prt sumed she speaks with knowledge even in so incredible an episode. T learn from Messrs. Chapman and Hall that I did them an injustice in attributing ...

... Miss Florence Warden is a specialist in houses, whether on marshes or still less substantial foundations, so that when she speaks of A House with a History (F. V. White and Co.), her readers are aire idy beforehand with the knowledge that history was ...

... since by illustrating The Vicar of Wakefield and Cranford has here illustrated Mr. Allen's book uniformly with these. When we speak of The Vicar, and Cranford we talk of their old-world charm. Mr. Allen shows us in A Kentucky Cardinal and its painfully ...

... was the voice of Captain Jensen, of the Southern Cross. Of the further explorations and adventures of the party we need not speak, for, as we have already remarked, we wrote of them in our article on the former CHAIN AND BADGE FOR HALIFAX, N.8. work. The ...

... humorous Mr. Rignold, for all his individualisms, is equally a clever delineator of character and low comedy, and not to speak of the rest at present Miss Dainton is one of our happiest representatives of gaiety in its daintiest and most piquant sense ...

... natural as Lord B-onalds, R. N. who wishes to marry the widow, and has the plainness of speech and the tendency to bungle, by speaking too plainly, of the sailor of tradition. It is rather an old type of naval officer this one of the age before electric cpnrnlil ...

... is his mistress as well as his landlady. I consider D'Orsay both a cad and a sponge, and only that Lord Ascot, his plain speaking opponent at Her Majesty's, is so brutal in his downrightness should sympathise, if with any one, with the other side. When ...

... Whitefriars Club, when Mr. Dobson is to be the guest of the club, and Mr. Edmund Gosse and Mr. Augustine Birrell, K.C., are to speak on his services in revivifying an interest in the eighteenth century. T t is curious that a rumour should have got abroad that ...