... us i c Jtotc s MR. SOUSA'S American band are again with us, and down to the end of next week they wiil be giving concerts .in. the afternoons at the Empire Theatre, and in the evenings at Covent Garde ...

... MR. H. V. ESMOND'S THE O'GRINDLES AT THE PLAYHOUSE Hundreds of years ago Plato wrote, About serious matters a man should be serious, and about a matter which is not serious he should ...

... {The Shearers The first theatrical event of the new season is the opening of the GARRICK to-night (Saturday) with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new comedy, The Cheva'eer. The cast is as follows: The Cheval ...

... SOME GOOD STORIES FROM NEED ROOKS The French Novel as Thought-Mirror.-- Miss Winifred Stephens' new volume, French Novelists of To-Day (second series), which arrives from the Bodley Head, will serve ...

... THE THEATRES CINDERELLA AT DRURY LANE After having seen a long series of DRURY LANE .. . one is apt to speculate whether a new year can possibly bring forth anything fresh in the way of business, sp ...

... THE THEATRES THE CONQUEROR AT THE SCALA One would like to be able to record that the play with which Mr. Forbes-Robertson opened the beautiful SCALA Theatre last Saturday night was an emphatic succe ...

... Etlen Plirillpotts's Latest j the whirlwind The latest and, in many respects, the most powerful of Mr. Eden Phillpotts's novels (with twelve illustrations of the scenery: Chapman and Hall) cannot po ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS DES URSINS This life of that pre-eminent type of the political intrigante, the Princess des Ursins, by Constance Hill (John Lane), is the out come of a prelim ...

... u s i c THE OPERA Madame Mei.ba has re-appeared, Madame Calve is expected next Thursday to play her famous part in Carmen, the eminent French tenor, M. Alvarez, has announced his rentr/e in Verdi's Ot ...

... MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS Love-Children of the Mind Miss O. Henry Ferber The Tyranny of Unselfishness G.K.C.'s Apiary Blurbs from Olympus Those Far-off Pre-lVar Days CALL a book The Love-Child and you imme ...

... THE THEATRES R2AUSM-- SEAL AND lNRAl. The superficiality and sickly sweetness of English plays some twenty years ago and less has had one curious effect, from which we still suffer. It has made some ...

... It is not a 'little curious that the most brilliant of modern musical reformers, Richard Strauss, should be living over again, in many respects, the life of his great predecessor Wagner. ...