... One does not usually conceive Louis XVIII as a humorist, but in her book on him, published this week by Hutchinson, Mary F. Sandars recounts some of the practical jokes of his e ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. EAST AND WEST.-- THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY. WHY should folk smile when one mentions The Bad Girl of the Family'! I do not know, unless we are supposed to assume that Mr. Fredk. Melville's play, be cause it comes from over the water, is to be regarded indulgently by the world west of Temple Bar. Does not this however, raise a question which will allow of a great deal of ...

... . MR. FORHMAN has started his Repertory Theatre at the Duke of York's with a production in most respects typical of such a venture. The Justice of Mr. John Galsworthy is a play well worthy of presentation, and sure to com mand the interest, of a certain thoughtful section of playgoers. But it is emphatically not a play for every one's money, and it is thus suited for production only under ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE O'FLYNN, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THERE is not much beyond its name to make the new play at His Majesty's particularly an Irish one. True, the leading character is, according to the conventional model which the stage-- always a trimmer --has adopted from Lover and Lever and Boucicault, to make up for Thackeray. But it is a model which those who look for its original ...

... ■BKHS A NOVEL OF IRELAND AND THE TURF.* THERE is a certain parallel between Mr. Stacpoole's latest novel, Garryowen, which he calls The Romance of a Race-Horse, and the Drury Lane drama The Whip. In both cases the plot turns on the winning of a big race by a certain horse, on whose success depend the fortunes of some of the leading characters. In the play, however, the horse lakes a more ...

... |il 'library A Namiless Narrative Nameless, by E. M. Forbes (Murray: 6s.), despite its some what inept title, is a very charming story, very charmingly told, with just sufficient of tragedy in it to make it true to life, but relieved by frequent touches of humour. The scene is, to a great extent, laid in a Scottish village near the low-ground shooting of Tullymore, and its heroine is Amy ...

... A LITERARY LETTER: The Blew Bool&s off ttlfoe SprSimg' Sea@inia London. February 14, iqio. I note that The Saturday Review of New York publishes what purports to be a contradiction of a statement by me as to the two volumes of Mr. Swinburne's posthumous works, and this con tradiction seems to have been based upon some statement by Mr. Watts-Dunton to his American publishers, the Scribners. Let ...

... A LITERARY LETTER: IToMa2 KI^airadlB'edl Peers from I ftlhte Artts Stis^ary Crl^acnsstni Tlhie Worship of Success. London, February 7, 1910. I am rather surprised that the ceremony associated with the death of Charles I. did not excite more attention than usual this 30th day of January. I suppose the elections rather killed the interest for the unsympathetic public, yet the zeal of the ...

... v'j .,-.m ,fr.. Chantecler at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, Paris By /OHN N. RAPHAEL RoDstand w vW IT was an extraordinary experience. I had called to see Monsieur Coquelin about a dog-- about some business, I mean-- and I had been asked to wait. I sat down on the stage. I couldn't get on to the chair because the seat was 8ft. from the ground, but I sat down on the point of a sabot 6ft. long ...

... . By Vede;te'.^ A VERY busy, if not a particularly prosperous, time is that which we are-- more or less-- en joying at the theatres just now. As to the non-prosperity, that is, I think, to be accounted for quite in the usual way, and without reference to Budget or Veto or General Election or any other abnormal influence for evil. The productions since Christmas, and especially for the last ...

... A LITERARY LETTER: The Jo*araalis1fc a A^atJlhoff3 A Groodl Booh EH She DsimphiirHeSo London. January 31. igio. The relation of literature to journalism is a topic of never-failing interest. Here are four books by four well-known journalists that bring it once again to my mind. I know that I am belated in reading them:-- The Comments of Bagshot. By J. A. Spender. (Constable.) Prophets, Priests ...

... NEW NOVELS With the Merry Austrian No doubt the German at home-- who is by no means the same person as the German abroad-- is much more widely and intimately known outside the Vaterland than when-- ho ...