... . My Lady Molly is determined to be at her best on the scene of her birth and to go one better than her second self now on her travels in the suburbs. The simple but interesting story and Mr. Sidney Jones's delightful music have attracted widespread attention and have afforded un qualified delight to thousands. There is good authority for declining to paint the lily and to perfume the rose, ...

... LATE THEATRES. ADELFHI, WALDORF, COURT, AND WYNDHAM'S. THERE is little need to discuss the reason which has caused the Shakespearean play now revived by Mr. Otho Stuart at the Adelphi to have been ignored for some thirty years, even by the West-end managers most, classical in their taste and enterprise. That Measure for Measure is a fine specimen of poetic comedy of the more serious kind is ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. THE TAMING OE THE SHREW. SHAKESPEARE and Mr. E. R. Benson, now generally recognised as the Shakespearean enthusiast, have both been badly mauled by critical pens since the revival, on the 2nd inst., at the Comedy Theatre, of The Taming of the Shrew. The poet-dramatist has been taken to task by the superior person for writing a piece so extravagant in its farcical humour, ...

... THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY. WAR IN PRAC TICE. Major Baden- Powell, an accom- plished soldier, whose work is in troduced by a pre face written b y his distinguished brother, has given us an interesting and useful book. It is to a great ex tent the story of the war with the Boers from a dis- t i n c 1 1 y military point of view; it shows how far theory worked out in practice, where it failed, and ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN OF FORTY. I SUPPOSE that I shall be accused of affinities more popular than aristocratic when I express the thought that eleven o'clock is quite late enough for a theatrical performance to finish. It is all against the thorough enjoyment of the last half-hour of an entertainment that one's attention should be complicated with anxieties about catching the last ...

... , IF the X-rays ever enable us to photo graph the fluctuations of a politician's mind, by that time the picture given on this page of an ava- lanche on the Wetterhorn may have come to be con- sidered primitive and wearisome, but until that psychological moment ar- rives we trust Mrs. Aubrey le Blond will be given due credit for this i as well as the many other interesting pictures in her ...

... TERRY'S THEATRE. My Lady Molly. HAVE you seen My Lady Molly? asked counsel of a witness in a recent action at law between an author and a manager. The question is one that within a week will be asked all over London among those who are interested in things theatrical. My Lady Molly, a comedy-opera in two acts, written by Mr. G. H. Jessop, and composed by Mr. Sidney Jones, was origin ally ...

... . Now that In Dahomey is well on the way towards its 200th performance it may be expected to keep its place in the programme at the Shaftesbury until the near approach of Christmas. The second edition has been made even more attractive than the first. The forces under com mand here have been strengthened by fresh importations from America, and the specially attractive features of the darkey ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE BEST OF FRIENDS. NO play has ever been better mounted, and few, if any, have been done as well as The Best of Friends at Drury Lane. The college scenes at Oxford, the banquet of yeo manry at Riverlea, the noble ducal residence, the military incidents at Johannesburg, the surprise-- with explosives-- at de Lahne's Farm, and finally the grand sensation in the circus, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE EMPTHE THEATRE I do not know whether the sunshine was disappointed at the postponement of the Coronation, but it seems to be one of the distinguished --I mean occasionally distinguished- visitors who have left us, without arranging anything de finite for the future. Not so the Americans; apparently, they have remained pretty nearly in full force, and should they be ...

... . DURING the past few years very many books have been written on all that appertains to golf, but I venture to think that to none of them belongs quite the same interest-- mournful though it be-- as to that of F. G. Tait: A Record.¹ There are indeed two classes of readers to whom this book will specially appeal: those to whom Mr. Tait was known personally, and those to whom he was merely ...

... . GENIUS is the art of taking pains. In the matter of musical play productions Mr. George Edwardes displays genius. It is generally proclaimed that he is lucky, but success in his case comes not so much from luck as from a determination to deserve it. There are all the elements of another big success in The Cingalee, which was played for the first time on Saturday last, in presence of a large ...