... .£.60,000 for a Seat Less than a century ago seats in Parliament were regularly bought and sold. Flood, the Irish politician, purchased a seat in the English House of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A WOMAN'S WAY, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. PRODUCTIONS and withdrawals follow one another so rapidly that it is a matter of difficulty to catch them on their way. I gathered from the notices of Mr. Buchanan's play at the Comedy that it was safe for a run. When I saw it myself a little later I thought the piece and the performance very nearly quite good enough to attract fair ...

... u . By the Author of The Inner Shrine. Met linen opens to the hurrying foot steps of a fugitive through the woods of the Adirondacks, in North America. He is young and innocent of the crime for which a jury of his peers had that morning sentenced him to the death-chair. Driven to seek succour among men, chance leads him to the house of the judge who, a few hours previously, had summed up ...

... u /' By Robert W. Chambers. [A f> pie tons.) is very good fun. It is a syndicate, sentimentally so named, for the exploitation of a great discovery. Brand-new currents of a psychic character encircle the earth, and an ingenious American youth entraps them by means of a small machine similar to a watch. Anyone walking up to the instrument may charge it with his personal emanation once charged ...

... AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE BY JINGLE. GRACE MR. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S new play is a kind of sermon, only instead of a text at the beginning it has a moral at the end. And the moral, which is in three sections, can at least claim the merit of novelty. It is as follows: Never Sin; Never Repent; Never Confess. With regard to the first section, it is pointed out that it is best not to sin ...

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... .£.60,000 for a Seat Less than a century ago seats in Parliament were regularly bought and sold. Flood, the Irish politician, purchased a seat in the English House of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE'. The Chocolate Soldier is a success-- I fancy that there is no doubt about that and has taken the public here as well as the American playgoers, from whom it comes to us with the certificate of a two years' run. It is not always that even a Transatlantic triumph is sure of a welcome on this side, and such unkind things have ...

... . By F. E. Penny. {Chat to and JVindus.) The sacrifice of the book so named is of two orders and two worlds. One is given to the fetish-worship of an Indian goddess, one is offered upon, the altar of English middle-class tradition. Both are human, and both are happily, at what seems the fatal moment, averted. The Khonds, a hill-tribe of Ganjam, possessed X an Earth-goddess to whom they were ...

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... The Cult of the Literary Grandmamma SOME REFLECTIONS ON LADY DOROTHY NEVILL'S MEMOIRS A Personal Resolve I have decided on a slight modification in the matter of my manners-- i.e., to be, in future, very deferential to the young person who demands autographs, keeps birthday and confession books, writes a diary, and solicits and collects picture- postcards. Hitherto one has regarded her as a ...

... London Mights Entertainments I BY JINGLE. INCONSTANT GEORGE AT THE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE THIS delightful comedy is taken from the French, and its success is complete. The plot is more or less original, the dialogue is smart and often witty, and Mr. Charles Hawtrey is here to be seen at his best. Miss Gladys Unger, who has made the adaptation, has contrived to keep to the spirit of the ...