... of signatories in the Fortnightly Review on behalf of a state-subsidised theatre. The Stage Society very justly maintains that everything that could be done by a subsidised theatre can be done by the Stage Society when it reaches its perfected form. Yet ...

... pair of novelists. Aubrey, indeed, gives a very quaint description of the two men who lived together very near the Globe Theatre at Southwark. There was, he says, a wonderful consimility of pharisy between him [Beaumont] and Mr. Io. Fletcher, which caused ...

... readable story which has lent itself to dramatisation by Mr. Grundy and is to be jresentid on the stage of the St. James's Theatre by Mr. George Alexander. 'P he Prince of Novodnia had married an American I wjfe. On leaving the church an accident occurred ...

... these controversies serve to make for intellectual stimulus and interest in the best literature. Meanwhile I who rarely go to theatres have to be con tented with reading Ford's Broken Heart in one or other of the two excellent editions of the book that are ...

... racy book the kind of biography I might expect to read concerning one or other of the men I have known in the world of the theatre, sav, Mr. Clement Scott or Mr. John Hollingshead. Somehow or other one does not think of a sober Athenccum critic in this ...

... be one which has this aim, and this aim only. If money enough is raised sufficient to build a theatre and library so much the better. We do not need the theatre and library, but it will require all this money and more to produce a monument to Shakspere ...

... Park is described and illustrated with a wealth of detail that is thoroughly attractive, There is a chapter upon the lath Theatre Royal of the eighteenth century and yet another upon Bath tokens=all well illustrated. V- 1 must go to Bath again. One good ...

... done a great variety of literary work, including a poem to Queen Mary, the wife of William III., in 1694 he produced in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields a comedy called I-ovc is a fest, in 1696, and did a considerable c mount of literary and dramatic ...

... living. A 11 the same, 1 looked in vain for the distinguished critics who are always present at every triviality in the London theatres the austere Mr. William Archer, the polyglot Mr. Walkley, and the rest. Mr. Kirwan's brave enterprise deserves support, and ...

... edited by a son of Mr. Frederic Harrison that is to say, of Mr. Harrison the Positivist, not Mr. Harrison of the Haymarket Theatre. nPhere is no truth in the statement that has been going the round. of a change of proprietorship in connection with The Scotsman ...

... y of re-reading it in tliis dainty edition. T t is refreshing to think how well litera ture is being served at the Court Theatre just now. One play. The Voysey J nheritance, by Granville Barker, was full of interest. Mr. Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is ...

... acting as that afforded in the last act of Mr. Brandon Thomas's new play, A Judge's Memory, now being performed at Terry's Theatre. The scene between the old judge, presented by Mr. James Fernandez an old favourite whom I have not seen on the stage since ...