... seats in the evening this speaks for itself. As to the production, with a recognised mission not to be phrenetic in laudation, and an inward wish not to be brutal in stricture, I can, as usual, only speak for myself. Speaking for myself, I think that in ...

... the study of the hapless reviewer, it is a pleasant relief to come across a volume bearing the name of an author who, so to speak, understands his business. Mr. Max Pemberton is a story-teller, pure and simple. His public, a very considerable one, looks ...

... able to converse with them with any freedom. She could not talk to girls. Miss Coleridge never saw her stop on the road and speak to a neighbour. Though she delighted in teaching the Otterbourne school- children, she lost them when they left school. As ...

... upon delusive indications, Giovanni, who knows the truth, cannot reveal it, and he has to struggle against the temptation to speak even when the young man is condemned to death. In the meanwhile Strozzi is away gaining victories, from which he returns in ...

... letter-perfect, and this will commend his book to naval and military readers, for the straps and buttons in the picture, so to speak, are all there and all properly worn. The great drawback to the complete success of the writing is that indefinable tendency ...

... footlights with the liveliest young lady in the Eccles household. Of Polly it may be said as of Shakespeare's Beatrice, that she speaks all mirth and that she makes for merriment. The Criterion's audience tho roughly enjoyed the early scene between Polly and ...

... WYEMARKE'S MOTHER. By Edward H. Cooper. (Grant liichards. j;s.) In speaking of a book supposed to be written by a child, it is presumably the unkindest criticism possible to say that it lacks a childish atmosphere, yet this is the case with Mr. Cooper's ...

... elsewhere in these pages, and Sodoms Ende at the Great Queen Street Theatre. Miss Lilian Moubrey.-- I have had it in my mind to speak of one of the members of Mrs. Bandmann-Palmer's company, to wit, Miss Lilian Moubrey, whose portrait I give here. Quite recently ...

... which had figured in the unsuccessful representation of Uncle Tom's Cabin! Of Colonel and Mrs. Bantam there is not space to speak at length, but those who read will laugh over their domestic strife, punctuated by touching reconciliations, although the ...

... setting of the Shaftes bury production, the third gentleman named can have made it. If I were compelled under torture to speak the truth-- which, dramatists and actors not being intentionally criminals, I am anxious, despite my mission to be captious ...

... best appreciate. In these days of petty jealousies and trivial squabbles-, it is indeed refreshing to find an actor ready to speak with such sincere admiration of a brother in art. But Mr. Maude, as everyone must recognise who has ever studied the nature ...

... with the personality, the character, even the physical attributes of his Welsh heroine, Joy Probert, Mr. Tirebuck is, so to speak, on his native heath and makes one understand how it is that he obtained the measure of success he did. Especially excellent ...