... OUR BOOKSHELF A POEM OF THE AGES Nebula to Man (J. M. Dent and Co.), by Henry R. Knipe, is an attempt to treat in epic form the whole story of evolution, from the birth of the world in the primeval ...

... THE NEW REIGN AT THE COURT In succeeding a poor government it is comparatively easy to do well, but in succeeding a good one it is necessary to consider the strength and look for the we ...

... ^hc theatres BY VV. MOY THOMAS FOE SWORD OR SONG FOR SWORD OR SONG, at the SHAFTESBURY', which is quaintly described as Written by Robert George Legge, made by Louis Calvert, and Musick'd by Raym ...

... At the end of last week the Carl Rosa Opera Com pany brought its brief London Season to a close, and though it is impossible to say that last season entirely fulfilled its early promise (a ...

... Ailsa Paige. By Robert W. Chambers Mr. Robert W. Chambers's new novel, published by Appleton,. is, so far as its plot is concerned, the story of the transformation of a drunken and vicious scamp, bit ...

... By P. MACQUOID (Lawrence and Bullen) The first volume of Mr. Percy Macquoid's beautiful and elaborate u History of English Furniture is now before us, strongly bound in red buckram. As ...

... THE THEATRES ROMEO AND JULIET AT THE IMPERIAL The present revival of Romeo and Juliet will certainly attract the public for some time to come, because there is always a certain curiosity abroad to s ...

... THE THEATRES THE WINTER'S TALE AT HIS MAJESTY'S The unquestionable success of The Winter's Tale is not only Mr. Tree's, but Miss Ellen Terry's, and justifies the management in its selection of the pi ...

... iftttsic V,..cx v MUSICIANS' COMPANY'S TERCENTENARY THE Musicians' Company, one of the old City Guilds, really dates back to the second half of the fifteenth century, when the Guild of Minstrels wa ...

... iEIie iEluatr.es BY W. MOY THOMAS _ HE R SECOND TIME ON EARTH IN his new play at the ADELPHI, Mr. Walter Melville, the joint author of The Worst Woman in London, could hardly be expected to go one b ...

... MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS Eyesores Ancient and Modern Fleet Street a la Woad. From Petronius to the Janeites Gorky s Unblinking Decadence Lectures Pour Tons by Booth Parkinson IT is almost time that the se ...

... Some New Books THE TRAGIC YEARS OF NAPOLEON There is no story in the annals of the modern world more dramatic than that of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it has enlisted countless pens. He has been extolled ...