... The Rose of Dauphiny One is sometimes tempted to believe that French history was expressly made for novelists. It is, at any rate, certain that Mr. Philip L. Stevenson is among the no ...

... It was New Year's Eve, and I, sitting lonely by the fireside, was thinking those thoughts which must needs come to every man who has played his little part ...

... . By Vedette. KING PANTOMIME reigns this year on nearly all of the suburban stages, but at two only of the West-end theatres. At His Majesty's and the Haymarket, the Garrick, the Duke of York's, and the Court, provision is no doubt made for the holiday playgoers, young and old, with whom pantomimes used to be as much of a Christmas institution as plum pudding. But in the way of panto mime ...

... A LITERARY LETTER: Tlh Misttoiry ft ftfine THauiBues M.wiriiftfteia -T3ht P?afislaslhiff's am\d! Wfet0 Wlk.00 London, December 28, igog. I have been reading a very pretty book for children by Miss Aileen Orr entitled Miss Manners. John Hassall has illustrated it. To me this clever story has an added interest in the fact that its author is a great-granddaughter of George Crabbe, the poet. I ...

... . Charley's Aunt, with all its uproarious mirth, is back again for the nonce at the Royalty, where it was originally produced seventeen years ago previously to its record run at the Globe. It is a diverting comedy of the farcical order, based upon so naturally humorous a motive that its perennial popularity is by no means to be either wondered at or deplored. If Mr. Arthur Chesney is not quite ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WHERE CHILDREN RULE, AT THE GARRICK THEATRE. AFTER absolutely cheating the children for many years-- by producing Christmas things ostensibly for their entertainment but quite over their heads-- if what we like best to believe about the little dears is true-- there seems at last to be a genuine effort to do indeed what until of late we had merely pretended. Peter Pan-- ...

... The Rose of Dauphiny One is sometimes tempted to believe that French history was expressly made for novelists. It is, at any rate, certain that Mr. Philip L. Stevenson is among the no ...

... It was New Year's Eve, and I, sitting lonely by the fireside, was thinking those thoughts which must needs come to every man who has played his little part ...

... THE HOUSE OF TEMPERLEY AT THE ADECPHI THIS is quite a clever production. It is not exactly a play as we understand the term in these fastidious days, although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has done his best to give it coherence by introducing the familiar points of stock melodrama. As is usual in these cases, the hero has the fortunes of his house staked on the result of a sporting event; but, as ...

... BY JINGLE ALADDIN AT DRURY LANE IT is usual in speaking of a Drury Lane Pantomime to say that Mr. Arthur Collins has surpassed all previous efforts. I think I shall be justified in saying the same thing again this year without running the risk of being unable to look the recording angel straight in the face. The present panto mime is different from its pre decessors in many ways; but then, ...

... |if| vq buffi's n library The Tale of a Silly Woman In The Deeper Stain (Bell: 6s.) Mr. Frank Hird tells an excellent story, and tells it most amusingly. It is not often that a modern author ventures to hold the mirror up to the foolish, shallow nature of the Society woman of to-day, who is more often than not a mere poseuse; but Mr. Hird has done so without malice in his picture of Lady ...

... A LITERARY LETTER.: Mir. tS'wiimlb'aarir&e0 Post&htiasinius Volumes Privately-pirisfcted IBool&g Journ&Hsm Hew SiKndl Oldlo London, January 3, 1910. Mr. Henry Baerlein is a worker in many literary fields. He has written clever stories-- In Pursuit of Dulcinea for example; he has experi mented in a field which made Edward FitzGerald famous by his Diwan of Abu'l Ala, and now we have a novel from ...