... THE LIBRARY, FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE. UNDER this title Mr. Cuthbert Bradley has recently published, with Messrs. G. Routledge and Co., a companion volume to his book published two years since, entitled Good Sport seen with Some Famous Packs. The new volume, which is not one whit less interesting than its predecessor, consists of a series of chapters describing varied phases of ...

... BABES' OF THE WILD. Mb. Chas. D. Roberts, author of so many good books of natural history, gives us yet another volume treated in the original manner of which he still holds the individuality, even in these times of all-round barefaced imitation. Babes of the Wild deals with young animals of the woods, the lake and by an extension of the ordinary meaning of the title, also of the sea. ...

... To the golfer's library there seems to be no limit. And it is just as well. For, of a surety, there is no limit to the lessons which he can learn. Quite recently it was asserted, on the authority of a famous ex-champion, that the last word on golf instruction had been written. Up to that time it was undeniably the latest but that it was not the last, or for that matter the best, has been ...

... . ALTHOUGH The Faun, the new play by Mr. Edward Knoblauch at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, arouses mixed feelings, I think the prevailing sensation is one of repugnance to the non-human attributes of the chief character. If mortals are to reverence a god, be sure that deity must have human form. Wings may be added, it is true, because we all would dearly love to fly, but at the sight of ...

... . REVUE IN FRENCH.-- I am, of course, in a difficulty if I attempt to express any opinion on the question whether this little affair at the Garrick, called Y'a d'Jolies Femmes, is or is not a witty commentary on passing events. If I say it is not, I lay myself open to the extremely unpleasant suggestion that I probably did not understand most of what the commentators were talking about. I ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE LAW DIVINE, AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. THIS is a tale of a soldier's wife who, when war broke out, didn't think it right to be happy any longer. Therefore she started packing parcels with im patient fury, addressed envelopes by the hundred, attended committee meetings day in day out, organised funds for the relief of every thing except income tax, had the telephone put ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. RIP VAN WINKLE, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. THE Playhouse version of Rip Van Winkle has been received with approval. With this on Mr. Maude's account I am pleased; because even if the performance should not prove as attractive to ordinary evening audiences as it did to the first-night critics, the produc tion should prove a draw to the matinee folk, old and young, who admire ...

... . THE Captain Kidd of Wyndham's Theatre is not to be confused with that thief and murderer of whom in connection with hidden treasure every story-teller has written, and whom every publisher has remembered once a year at least since Edgar A. Poe wrote The Gold Beetle. Not, of course, that the very great scoundrel in whose name even writers of repute have imposed upon the credulous with ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. BEAU BROCADE AT THE GLOBE THEATRE. AS I write I do not know how long Beau Brocade will last. There seems to be no standard by which we can measure in one the judgment of managers and the taste of the public. I do not know that the Globe play by the Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow is greatly inferior dramatically to The Scarlet Pimpernel of the same authors. But the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS .CRITIC. THE REAL THING, AT THE GARRTCK. YOU must not take the title in earnest before you pay for your seat. So many things call themselves real which are real bad. You swallow a walnut, and find it was mostly husky-- as you are by then. The fruiterer said it was the real thing, and it looked the real thing, but all you knew for certain was .that when you swallowed it you had ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC, DAME NATURE, AT THE GARRICK THEATRE. La Femme Nue of M. Bataille-- which, if one dared to pun in these sad times, might be freely translated The Nue Woman-- had a very prosperous run at the Renaissance in 1908 with Guitry, Bady, Mégard, and other good people in the cast. Dame Nature, the adaptation by Mr. Frederick Fenn, which has been produced with success at the ...

... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vedette. THERE is no doubt that the Barkerised performances of Twelfth Night and The Win ter's Tale at the Savoy Theatre have shown the general public how much their pleasure depends on the play and its actors, and how little on the scenery. A good setting gives a sensation of charm as the curtain rises, but should your attention then con tinue to dwell on its ...