... vhr Z, hratrc'q' BY W. MOY THOMAS IN THE S O UP TH E audience at the STRAND Theatre on Tuesday evening laughed consumedly at the late Mr. Ralph Lumley's three-act farce, entitled in the Soup, which, after a preliminary trial in the country, has found its way to town. What more need be said to proclaim this posthumous production of a playwright who has contributed some good work to the ...

... The witch scanned the crystal with increased intensity By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Illustrated by R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A. II.-(conbzaued) GAMMIER GURNEY dwelt quite alone, and none had seen the alleged mariner, her son, the occasion of his visits being hidden in nocturnal mystery. Upon one point at least there was no doubt: the dame vended choicest cognac to a favoured few at a shilling a pint, and ...

... Al it 1?, i -C at - (Itlivirtinardibe Music in London at Christmastide is almost as scarce as snakes il Iceland. IFor, so far at any rate as public concerts are concerned, musical people are holiday making, the vacation being broken only ly anl Orchestral Concert at Queen's Hall on Christmas Day for the benefit of those unfortunate bachelors and others who have no friends in the metropolis, ...

... ?? zhratuo BY W. MOY THOMAS FACING THE MUSIC THE limits Of the farce writer's privileges have not bedn authoritatively defined ; but it is perhaps safe to say that the pro- ceedings of his personages, if not exactly rational, ought at least to be conceivable. I cannot help feeling that Mr. J. H. Darnley, the author of the new farce in three acts at the Srl1AND Theatre, has been a little ...

... . . . 41 C?,, cW flobfb? 41T1T TEMPTATION OF OLIVE LATIMUIF IT is difficult to work up much sympathy with the rather feeble set of persons who sustain the action ot Mrs. L. T. Meade's The ;Temptation of Olive Latimer (Hutchinson and Co.). The temptation to which Olive succumbed was to marry the excellent and prosperous medical man, who loved her and whom she loved, without letting him know ...

... Eauint satto THE OPERA SEASON THE Opera Season of 1900 will commence at Covent Garden six weaL hence, and the management have issued a semi-official manifesto of their intentions, which now takes the place of that once popular, but almost amusingly misleading document, the operatic ' prospectus. We are unlikely to have any special novelty this year, unless it be Puccini's La eosca, in which ...

... They did not notice that behind them a man was crouched on the top of the peat bank looking directly down upon them By S. R. CROCKETT. Illustrated by R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A. CHAPTER X. THE SECOND FITTING OF THE PEATS Icr was a June morning. Mistress Bell Alac Lurg was out fitting the peats on the Millwharchar Muir. This is how she did it. It was yet early. The dew was pearled on the grass, ...

... _lcl C fil.?v ILEANOR ''ATIuiEnR else may be thought of Mrs. IlIumphry WVardts new novel (Smith, Elder and Co.), it possesses at least one un- deniable charm. The pervading presence of two such intensely andi sympathetically living women as Eleanor Burgoyne and Lucy Foster-the latter all light, and the former all flame-would give distinction to work much more otherwise in need of it than Mrs ...

... orelling of Qt 3e6 gusifal 5cicsolt THE new season at the Albert Hall opened on Monday, when a lyerrormance of The AMessi ,h was given in somewhat similar fashion to that organised by Sir Frederick Bridge a year ego. It was supposed to be Handel unadulterated, and although in a huge build- ing like the Albert lhall, and with an organ of proportions which Handel himself never could have ...

... 7 CHLORI| S OF THE By H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON. Illustrated by 0. E. and H. }, BROCK ISLAND K ' Awek, fool!' he called, and struck on an upper casement ?? his whip. 'Awake, fool! The game is up. The redcoats are out. Get you to the island, and warn my father.' fhe Innkeeper's htai appeared, crowned with a tasselled nightcap CHAPTER XVIII.-(coniinucd) OUTSIDE the house Warburton mounted his ...

... II1.I cc aux X amv.3 BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE TIME Queen's Garden Party, with Her Majesty's usual good fortune il the matter of weather, was favoured by brilliant sunshine. It fell on one of the few really hot days of the season, and proved perfect for the display of ethereal summer dresses. Nearly all the Royalties wore black or white, or a mixture of the two; in fact, black and white were ...

... THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-XV. LADIES' FASHIONS By JOSEPH GREGGO AFTERNOON DRESS, 1800 1 What extrv.aganices are perpetriated U thy 0 erie, 0 FaFi o! -arid how walyward are ithy exaction ! Ir is an informing study to glance through the modes of a century, to note the development of this or that popular style, to count the possible cost of expensive vagaries, and to trace the alternate r; ...