... . SHAW WAS NAUGHTY THEN. Whether The works of Bernard Shaw called for a Standard Edition might seem to be an open question; but it has apparently been answered in the affirmative by the firm of Constable and Co. Even more doubtful would seem to be the urgency or great ance ot reprinting in extenso t1 dramatic eritieisms contributed hy G.B.S. to the Saturday Review i*' the eoursc of ...

... . FROM STAGE TO BAR. Under this odd title, showing how a man of the theatre became the landlord of a country inn, has been published at 1s., by the firm of W. J Parrett, Ltd., of the Isle of Thanet Gazette, the recollections of Mr. R. H. Lindo. which appeared in our columns after his retirement from Drury Lane. Some mention of this fact, might surely have oecn made after the re-issue of ...

... . THE ART OF ORATORY. If there are any oratorg left in these days, either in Parliament, or at the Bar, or upon tihe Stage, such of them as may welcome the counsel of perfection might tako as their guide John N. Ruffin, B.A., who has grouped together, rhetorically analysed and cally marked, under the head ing of The Celebrated Crown Trial, the orations usually re ferred to as De Corona, ...

... . SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEAER There has reached us from America an admirably sensible and scholarly work, Sidelights on Shakespeare, published at $1.50, by the Stratford Company, Boston, Mass. This is from the accomplished pen of Edwin Gordon Lawrence. Director of the Lawerence School of Oratory, New York, who has turned his special knowledge to excellent account in the short chap ter, the ...

... . WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE very welcome is the revised and enlarged edition of Who's Who in the Theatre (London: Hir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.), for the preceding edition, which was the fourth, la now six years old. As Mr. John Parker, the Indefatifthre compiler and editor of tills valuable biographical handbook of the contemporary stage, says in a brief prefatory note, great changes ...

... . THB ORIGIN OF ROMEO AND JULIET Bibllographical scholarship and artistic book production are exemplified admirably in a most interesting volume or Shakeapearean importance to be credited to Maurice Jonas whose book on Shakespeare and the Stage we reviewed very fully on its publication by Davie and Orioll three and a-half ihy beautifully '-o^and ^taca1 net* Wc 'l'11 ivnio ttaT length v ...

... . THE EXEMPLARY THEATRE. It is impossible to deal exhaustively or even adequately in a neccessarily short notice with such a closely reasoned plea for the recognition of the theatre as an educational force as Harley Granville-Barker's The Exemplary Theatre (Chatto and Windus, 9s. net). The book is rightly described officially as not presenting any cut- and-drled plan. It- ts ...

... OUT OF MY COFFIN By Marchr&a Vitelleicki (Stella Rho) Delicate as a small child, Marchesa Vitelleschi was taken for dead. It was not until she was being carried in her coffin to the hearse, that she was discovered to be still alive. In Out of My Coffin (published by Hurst and Blackett, 12s. 6d. net), she writes an account of her subsequent life. Godchild of the late Queen Mar- gherita ...

... . GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. Marked by Archibald Haddon's well-known fearlessnoss and direct bluntness of expression is his volume of Green Room Gossip (Stanley Paul and Co., 6s, net), reprinted mainly from the columns of the Daily Express, to which paper the author has contributed for twenty years, and of tho Hvnilay Kxprest. Mr. Haddon an excellent photograph of whom serves as frontispiece ...

... . Plays and Controversies. There may seem to be far-off echoes of old squabbles and contests, half-dead but not forgotten, in the first part of the volume, by W. B. Yeats, thus entitled, and published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd.; at 10s. 6d. net; yet, as is said by the eloquent and siastic qnthor, of whom a speaking likeness, from a charcoal drawing by John 8. Sargent, serves as ...

... . AN APPRECIATION OF H. B. Amother volume in the series of Notable Trials, published by William Hodge and Co., Ltd., is that on the Trial of the Wainwrights (10s. 6d., net), now issued. The facts that this, like other volumes on Franz Muller and Mr. Maybrick, had been edited by H B. Irving, and that he died? whilst the -nook was still in tlie {hands pf 'the publishers, toave led to Stfr ...

... . ADVICE TO AUTHORS. The Authors', Playwrights', and Composers' Handbook. 3s. 6d. John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd. A most valuable book to authors, composers, playwrights, and others, has just been publislicd under the title of the 44 Authors', Playwrights', and Composers' Handbook. It has been compiled by D. Kilham Roberts, M.A.. secretary of the Incorporated Society of Authors, ...