... King aud the Dame, Prince Racket and the village maiden, take place amid surroundings of great splendour. I am not going to speak of the spectacle first, for, as some one who knew has told us, the play's the thing, and I fear we are inclined to forget ...

... ons and many excellent portraits, justify the price of the review, for assuredly it gives good value. The most trenchant speaking on the war is afforded by Mr. Spencer Wilkinson when he writes with regard to the present situation, Either Loid Wolseley ...

... beeste as a kind of small bison, whereas most African hunters and all naturalists know it to be a true antelope. Again he speaks of elands having been killed standing as much as seven feet in height, which seems to be a good deal taller than anything ...

... George Shelton, as the humorously peevish orderly and clever little Miss Dorothy Moss, as the daughter of the regiment, not to speak of other members of the Garrick company and the revival was received with great favour. ...

... unexpected failure to invest Don Juan with the air of romance and the seductive grace which are needed to humanise, so to speak, this incarnation of wickedness. Miss de Silva's Soledad displayed a fresh innocence which was very pleasing, and Mr. Blinn's ...

... impossible to regard her as a sympathetic victim either of her unsym pathetic father or more unsympathetic lover. There is, to speak plainly, no one to sympathise with from beginning to end of the production, which must be regarded less as a dramatic work ...

... moved about by a crane. is in compatible with Jin de siicle dramatic illusion. The episode in the burial ground with the speaking monument of a de parted young lady is difficult enough to take seriously but the thundering footsteps of the marble Commander ...

... Women in the Divina Commedia the Bishop of London takes the chair, Mr. Alfred Austin and the Italian Am bassador are both to speak. Mr. Bryce takes the chair on April 25, and on May 16 there is to be an address by Mrs. Magda Heinemann-Sindici, under the ...

... biographical essay on Cowper for the Globe edition of the poems, Dr. Robertson Nicoll, and other admirers of the poet will speak. Every child in Olney is to receive a copy of a biography of Cowper presented by the Religious Tract Society. On the Sunday ...

... Rossi's pantomime was more eloquent than any words could have been, and Petite Marcelle was so pretty and so pathetic with her speaking eyes and action that we are sure every woman in the audience must have experienced a desire to hug her Another very fine ...

... acceptable in Mr. Sydney Grundy's play, The Degenerates but even the yet finer dresses worn by Miss Janelte Steer, not to speak of some excellent acting, failed to secure for Mr. Charles Brooklield's play at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday evening a very ...

... take part in the performance, of whom fifty are women and two hundred children, but only one hundred and twenty-five have speaking parts. The play lasts eight hours, be ginning in the morning at eight o'clock and ending about half-past five, with an interval ...