... It has long been known that there has been something radically wrong with the leather bookbindings of the last fifty years or so. Nearly all modern bindings have show ...

... SOMERSET HOUSE-- PAST AND PRESENT The very interesting book from which our illustration is taken is a companion volume to Old Time Aldwych, ICingsway and Neighbourhood, which we reviewed a short tim ...

... 4ft u six THE KRUSE FESTIVAL THE first appearance in London, at Queen's Hall on Saturday, of the choir of the Sheffield Choral Union, was indisputably the chief feature of the opening concert of the K ...

... THE THEATRES IUSINESS IS BUSINESS AT HIS MAJESTY'S If Mr. Sydney Grundy has not improved Octave Mirbeau's Les Affaires sont les Affaires in adapting it for the English stage, he has at least done on ...

... Trj IP Tj i-k ir q t t ip ip i A New Novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward U vJ vl I\. O O ILr L/ r pj^g Lack cf Support for Poetic Genius Mrs. Humphry Ward's Daphne: or Marriage à la Mode (with illustrations ...

... %\X£ entree CYNTHIA AT WY NDH AM' S Cynthia, which, if rumour speaks rightly, is one of Mr. Hubert Henry Davies' earlier plays, and achieved a qualified success in America some time since, is a pret ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF MR. JOHN SWAN'S DRAWINGS* When Hans Christian Andersen was introduced to Sir Edwin Landseer, he-- exclaimed with hearty bonhomie lam so glad to know you-- I am so fond of Leasts What wo ...

... Mrs. Alicia Needham was paid the compliment on Saturday of a whole-programme recital of her songs in the Galleries of the Royal Society of British Artists, a performance given by invitat ...

... ^lu ^Iuatvcs There is not very much to be said about the new comic opera by Eustace Ponsonby and Frank Lambert, which has been produced at the Avenue Theatre. It is called Ladyland, and deals with a c ...

... The Witches of Westover Combe, by Edith Cowper (S. P. C. K. is an excellent tale, which will be read with equal pleasure by old and young. It introduces some quaint Cornish c ...

... gufo IJjff&els ARDEN MASSITER AMONG all the novels dealing with present-day Italy, Dr. William Barry's Arden Massiter (T. Fisher Unwin) is by far and away the most powerful. Apart from its vivid pic ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF THE BURL.SQUE NAPOLEON* Jerome Bonaparte, whose life's story is admirably told in this volume, is perhaps one of the least known of the Bonaparte family to English readers; yet he was, ...