... Martyn assures us in his criticism of the stage that Dublin audiences have awakened to the insipidity of the modern English theatre. When the big London successes are brought over, the audience comes away wondering how the Londoners could have made it (sic) ...

... its brief period of success. He was, I well remember, a conspicuous figure at the performance of the Cenci, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, and even more in evidence at the musical performance of Hellas, an evening so dreary as to be calculated to kill ...

... formances only because one of the actors left the company. Now I saw Strafford performed some fifty years later at the Strand Theatre, and I am quite satis fied in my own mind that only enthusiasm for Brown ing's great work in poetry made the play tolerable ...

... become familiar with it? Is Shakspere any the worse to us because he is recited in every schoolroom and in every provincial theatre? Mr. Lang, as a very anti-democratic person, would say yes. In any case, this desire to hear no more of FitzGerald's Omar ...

... among the literary contributors. jphe interest in Mr. Stephen Phillips's Herod, to be produced by Mr. Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre, will not be confined to the regular playgoer. We have here a remarkable literary experiment. Meanwhile it is impossible in ...

... me. P\ne of the literary events of the week is the appear- ance of Mr. Stephen Phillips's play, Herod, at Her Majesty's Theatre. The play will shortly be issued by Mr. John Lane, and meanwhile it is not easy to judge its literary character from the rendering ...

... has been bought for England by Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and will be produced simultaneously in Dublin for the Irish Literary- Theatre. A ttempted identifications of the author of An Englishwoman'' s Love Letters grow apace. The New York Critic suggests Mr ...

... the English. Perhaps our Parisian friends will distinguish thems Ives by more candour than sometimes obtains in the English theatre, and 1 have no doubt that Mr. 1 lewlett's name will appear on Madame Bernhardt's playbill. Some of us have seen French plays ...

... A LITERARY LETTER London, December 4th, 1901. Shakspere has long ceased to spell bankruptcy for the theatre manager. Let us hope that he is far from spelling bankruptcy, and that he does indeed spell good fortune, for the publisher. Only the other day ...

... 1-)U A LITERARY LETTER London, February 5th, 1902. The production of Ulysses by Mr. Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre will doubtless cause a great many people to turn their attention to the original poem to which Mr. Stephen Phillips has gone for his material ...

... A LITERARY LETTER I-- I-- i i ii ii-- London, March 12th, 1902. The new Théâtre Français in Paris, that has taken the place of the one that was burnt down not so very long ago, is to have many architectural and sculptural beauties, not the least of which ...

... received his full measure of recognition in our time. HPhe appearance of Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy's play at the St. James's Theatre, If I Were King and the publication of the same story by Mr. William He neraann as a novel naturally turns one's attemion ...