... . MR. F. C. SELOUS'S museum at Worplesdon, in Surrey, which has been recently much enlarged, contains un doubtedly the most wonderful one-man collection of big game trophies in Europe. Here are to be seen, by the courtesy of the owner, the matchless collection of heads and horns acquired by the great hunter during a career of more than twenty-five years in South Africa. In later years Asia ...

... LATE THEATRES. A Judge's Memory, at Terry's. MR. BRANDON THOMAS'S new play is not another Charley's Aunt, and it is only fair to him to admit that, save as re gards its possible success, he evidently did not intend it to be. His central study of character in A Judge's Memory, as his piece at Terry's is called, has a pathetic rather than a comic interest, and his plot is on the lines of ...

... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vebette. I DO not suppose for a moment that, when last season Mr. Frederick Harrison revived The Man from Blankley's, he regarded it as anything but a stop-gap. The original run of Mr. Anstey's piece, with Mr. Charles Hawtrey in the rôle which fitted him so well, was still fresh in the memory of playgoers, too fresh to make it seem likely that the fun would catch on ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. IT is a pity that Dickens could not complete his Mystery of Edwin Drood. But I have no doubt myself of what would have been his explanation of it. Three paragraphs at the end of the 21st chapter make it obvious that Rosa Bud is to marry the young man called Tartar; which means that, unless Drood was masquerad ing as ...

... . By Vedette. To criticise a theatrical production given at a charity matinée is, I suppose, to make the mistake of looking a gift-horse in the mouth; yet something beyond a mere record seems necessary in the case of the chief item of the programme arranged at the New Theatre the other day by Mr. Luther Munday, in aid of the Royal Waterloo Hospital. I may pass over the preliminary rendering ...

... LATE THEATRES. Under the Greenwood Tree, at the Lyric. THERE could not well be promise more pleasant than that given in the hint of al fresco comedy suggested by the name, Under the Greenwood Tree, chosen for Miss Maxine Elliott's production at the Lyric. It was amus ing to notice the claim to Mr. Esmond's pretty title put in by rivals who apparently forgot the previous use of it by Thomas ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. HUMOUR, like most things, needs encouragement in order to keep up to the mark, and at pre sent there is not much encouragement. Playgoers nowadays laugh so readily at small fun that good joking is no longer worth the trouble of itself, so far as the bulk of people who go to theatres are concerned. It is the same with ...

... WE have had so many books on African shoot- ing during the last ten or fifteen years, most of them bearing a strong family likeness to one another, that the public as well as the critic is in some danger of becoming satiated with this kind of fare. Lord Hindlip's volume is an average speci men of the modern sporting book. It is furnished with the usual complement of photographic repro ductions ...

... . By Vedette. POPULAR PLAYHOUSES, LTD., which is responsible for the new production at the Lyceum, has certainly done its best to justify the name under which it carries on its art and trade. If ever there was a popular writer of novels and plays, one has certainly been secured in Mr. Hall Caine, whose sentiment reaches the heart of as large a public as does the kindred satire of Miss ...

... This is one of the series of Peoples of Many Lands, which Messrs. A. and C. Black publish from time to time, and which are, perhaps, better described as albums than as books. Very charming albums they are, filled with pictures by capable artists reproduced in colour and by photogravure alternately, with all the necessary racial individuality and per sonal character. Mr. Lance Thackeray is ...

... THE LIBRARY, FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE. UNDER this title Mr. Cuthbert Bradley has recently published, with Messrs. G. Routledge and Co., a companion volume to his book published two years since, entitled Good Sport seen with Some Famous Packs. The new volume, which is not one whit less interesting than its predecessor, consists of a series of chapters describing varied phases of ...

... . The Prayer of the Sword would have run longer Out for the damning with faint praise that was indulged in by some who are continually calling for new authors with a serious purpose and the ability to carry it out, and who have little in the way of encouragement for the one who is bold and industrious enough to come to the front and to ask to be heard. Happily, however, the word failure is not ...