... FURTHER MEMOIRS OF THE HABSBURGS An Entertaining Book by Countess Wittelsbach The Truth at last about the Mad King Ludwig II Reviewed by BARONESS VIOLET von GAGERN My Royal Relatives COUNTESS LARISCH VON WALLERSEE WITTELS BACH gives us in My Royal Relatives (John Long, 18s.), fur ther memoirs of the Habsburg Court. I read some time ago My fast by the same author. This highly interesting ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HANKY-PANKY, AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. IF the statements now being made that revue is declin ing in popularity are true, the only way to bring that form of entertainment into favour again would be to make each one better than the last. Some serious-minded people would say that that is impossible because all revues are, in the nature of things, equally bad, but setting these ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. T t -TIT REPARATION, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. A MOST subtle and indefin able thing is national, or rather racial, temperament. It defies translation in litera ture, which is no great matter, since a perfect translation would still seem to the public a foreign language. The fact that so few of what one race considers its books worth reading or plays worth acting find ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. GENERAL JOHN REGAN, AT THE APOLLO THEATRE. I HAVE always thought it an impertinence of the Press to publish the real name or other particulars which a dramatic author has covered in the playbill by a nom de plume. I am not therefore going to follow those of my friends writing notices who have told us about Mr. George A. Birming ham more than we wanted to know or are the ...

... A Scotch writer and a Scotch painter have combined in the production of the present work, which has evidently been a congenial task to both of them. But while Mr. Houston has been content to confine himself to that sympathetic portrayal of landscape in colour with which he has long been identified, it is Mr. Neil Munro upon whom have devolved, not only the verbal descriptions of the scenery, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. RUNNING WATER AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. AS Running Water is adapted from a novel several things have to be for given it, including its title, which has the engaging quality of having no meaning at all as applied to the play. Still water runs deep, but this run ning water, though often too still, runs shallow. Indeed, although in a box-omce sense the piece may be running, ...

... The Duke of OSleans is a great traveller and a practical sportsman, and bis book, which Mr. H. Grahame Richards has translated, is interesting in both senses. But there is more of endurance than of adventure in Arctic travel, and the nearer the Poles the less the sport. The trapper inland and the hunter and poacher For fur ashore and afloat have already practically denuded the region which the ...

... THE MAN WHO GOULD NOT LOSE. Mr. Richard Harding Davis, the American author, war correspondent, playwright, and journalist, has seen life in many lands, and as a writer knows how to make the most of his experiences. It seems impossible for him to give us anything in fiction that is not good reading when observation is helped by wonderful descriptive talent and ready imagina tion. The volume ...

... TIIE STAGE O F T H E DAY. By Ashley Dukes. SIMPLER SCENERY FOR MODERN PLAYS. MY enjoyment of several recent plays has been lessened by the strain of looking at their decora tion. There is one modern interior in particular-- a sort of composite modern interior in which all modern comedies might be performed-- which is getting on my nerves. It represents the hall of a mock-Elizabethan country ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WATCH YOUR STEP! AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. Watch your step! was brought from America, and its title sounds like a warning from President Wilson to a certain gentle monarch of all he betrays. The music is announced as from the pen of one person only, Irving Berlin, instead of being, as is usual with revues, by a syndicate if not a mass meeting of composers. The company is ...

... ROUND T H E T U E A T R E S. DINNER FOR EIGHT.-- This (at the Ambassa dors Theatre) is a pleasantly written little conversa tion between a lady and a telephone, assisted at intervals by a maid, a husband, and a friend. She is an E. F. Benson lady whom the war has not brought to any sense of the responsibilities of life. Her troubles are heartrending. Her husband is the chief of them. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE GOLDEN MOTH AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE. THE Adelphi Theatre open, and Mr. W. H. Berry singing there, has become one of the features of West End life to so marked an ex tent that it seems like a tooth missing when the place is closed, and the white- eyed- Kaffir like posters inform the passer-by that there is nothing doing. In the old days Adelphi melo drama was a Lon don ...