... ■^The ^hentves BY \Y. MOY THOMAS THE LAST OF THE DANDIES MR. CLYDE FITCH'S new play, The Last of the Dandies, at HER MAJESTY'S Theatre, furnishes Mr. Beerbohm Tree with abundant opportunities for the ...

... it i* bookshelf THE SECOND YOUTH OF THEODORA DE3ANOES A NEW novel from the pen of Mrs. Lynn Linton (Hutchinson and Co.) is, indeed, like an unexpected voice from the grave. Such posthumous publication ...

... (Dxu* bookshelf CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST5' IN two handsome volumes Mr. Harry Furniss has set forth very amusingly and with a wealth of illustration a first portion of his autobiography. We say f ...

... 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 ...

... ^Itc ^heutves BY W. MOY THOMAS THE difficulties which confront the playwright who essays to transfer a popular novel from the printed volume to the glare of the footlights have been rather evaded than ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONP. MR. ESMOND'S piece, which has been so favourably re ceived at the Comedy, had already been performed with success in America. It is not so good a play as to merit all the enthusiasm with which it was greeted on its production here; but it is not by any means a bad one. The writing is meritorious, the sentiment is kindly, and the story is as fresh ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. THE TAMING OE THE SHREW. SHAKESPEARE and Mr. E. R. Benson, now generally recognised as the Shakespearean enthusiast, have both been badly mauled by critical pens since the revival, on the 2nd inst., at the Comedy Theatre, of The Taming of the Shrew. The poet-dramatist has been taken to task by the superior person for writing a piece so extravagant in its farcical humour, ...

... . DURING the past few years very many books have been written on all that appertains to golf, but I venture to think that to none of them belongs quite the same interest-- mournful though it be-- as to that of F. G. Tait: A Record.¹ There are indeed two classes of readers to whom this book will specially appeal: those to whom Mr. Tait was known personally, and those to whom he was merely ...

... . MR. RALPH HALL CAINE, who has just purchased Dickens's old paper, Household Words, is not, as is generally supposed, a brother of the famous novelist, but his son. Mr. Ralph Caine is scarcely eighteen years of age. His attempt to resuscitate the famous old magazine is certainly one of the pluckiest things in recent journalism. Needless to say, Mr. Hall Caine is watching the venture with the ...

... cifiitsic cflotcs PREPARATIONS are now being made for the opening of the con cert season, although September and the early part of October, strangely enough, appear to be neglected by managers (except ...

... London. October 30th, 1901. I had an exceedingly personal reason for visiting St. Ives on the occasion of the unveiling of the Cromwell statue. The fact can necessarily interest no one but myself that I have boyish and long family association with that quiet little town on the Ouse. I cannot, however, help a certain measure of peculiar interest in the treatment of the unveiling ceremony by the ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. SHAKESPEARE AT THE COMEDY. The long list of Mr. J. R. Benson's Shakespearean revivals at the Comedy Theatre ends with Hamlet, which, on Wednes day, 27th ult., attracted a fairlydarge and evidently interested audience, who this time found some comfort in the announce ments that only theabridged version of the play would be given. Hamlet in its entirety at the Lyceum was an ...