... . A sumptuous, beautifully produced, and exceedingly valuable work, not without bearing on stage matters, is that on British Costume during Nineteen Centuries (Civil and Ecclesiastical), by Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown, published at 12s. 6d. net by T. C. and E. C. Jack. Mrs. Ash down, who is a lecturer upon costume and medieval ncad-oressco, ana nas aaviscu upon costume at several of the ...

... BOUND THE THEATBES. By Vedette. His Lordship's Cure, the new comedy presented for a charity the other day at the Apollo, proved to be one of those amateurishly able dramatic efforts which are just good enough to make one wish they were better. As might have been anticipated from the names of its fair authoresses, Dolf Wyllard and Elliott Page, both of whom have done clever work of other ...

... OUB CAPTIOUS CRITIC PRISCILLA RUNS AWAY, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. PRISCILLA'S FORTNIGHT is a very pretty story, and on reading it from the bookstall one felt sure that it would find its way to the stage. We have it now at the Haymarket-- as adapted by the authoress herself-- and its success, despite the truism that most authors are not to be trusted with the dramatisation of their own ...

... A Racing' NotelbooR s By Tike Syce.9' A Wonderful Dead Heat. TO many of us who still had faith in Neil Gow it was a dull and dis appointing moment as we saw Lemberg coming along comfortably with the race for the Eclipse Stakes apparently well won two furlongs from home and Neil Gow apparently numbered amongst the also ran. The favourite wins easily It's 10 to i on Lem- berg these and such ...

... A LITERARY LETTER: Tlh EMstelfe Piriis&ce- Tlh Hew Acadlesm^ f ILifteira.tUaire ^Tlh Slhacdlow of a. Tattsna 50 1^-- -1-- CM London, July 27, 1910. Mr. Dunn-Pattison has already won the regard of all students by a book entitled Napoleon's Marshals, although you will not find his name among the crowd of bookmakers that are scattered through the pages of Who's Who. Mr. Dunn- Pattison is in no ...

... OUT? CAPTIOUS CRITIC THE THEATRICAL GARDEN PARTY AT THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS. THE Actors' Orphanage Fund is a very good thing, and so, I think, are all Funds, really well looked after, for the benefit of childhood unattached. With the right people to control the helm at the start, the child without parents and without friends has as good a chance in this temptatious world of ours-- perhaps ...

... SAMUEL THE SEEKER.* MR. UPTON SINCLAIR'S new book bears a dedication to a man now in gaol for his defence of freedom in America, and it is certain that his hero would be there too, had not hatred dealt him a more elemental blow. From the mountain meadows of his home Samuel went forth to seek his fortune, much as Whittington of old. He had no cat, but a bundle wrapped up in newspaper, and ...

... THE LIBRARY. THE OXFORD AMATEURS. THE cobbler to his last, the actor to his profession. We are no admirers of the histrionism which all the world can take up in its spare time. The amateur drama is, unfortunately, too much in the hands of people who have no more qualification for the stage than the wish to dress up and be talked about. There are, however, exceptions, and sometimes even with ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Tlhe Romsurace of j; ETeirdlliraairhdl L?asssJlIl Tlhie Tr^^i ...

... STUDIES IN IIOYAL INSANITY. FROM the very nature of the subject, a book like this* is apt to make history a sort of nightmare. If one were to concen trate attention upon a selection of lunatics from any class or profession, the result would doubtless be the same. In the case of royalties, who dwell in the fierce light that beats upon a throne, anecdotes of personal eccentricity are liable to ...

... THE ADVENTURES OF A FRONTIERSMAN. HIS experiences as Engineer, Sheep Station Hand, Nigger Driver, Hunter, Trader, Transport Rider, Labour Agent, Cold Storage Engineer, Explorer, Lecturer, Pressman, American Soldier, Blockade-Runner, Tramp-- so runs the sub-title of a book* which, for its fresh and absorbing interest, stands far above the ordinary ruck of books of travel, autobiography, or ...

... V&jyWag^if-Cfcrg library PERFECTION-- YET IMPERFECT: AN IMPRESSION OF THE PORTRAIT, BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER THAT a book is perfect, and therefore imperfect, is a reflection worthy of Mr. G. K. Chesterton in his antediluvian period. There is, however, sometimes an element of truth in these old saws of paradox. At the present day we have a large number of writers who, within the limits they have ...