... Jetted J^obertl^oys Sights and Sites Have you the sentiment of history? Do you like relics of people not necessarily saints? Are you moved by historic sits and shrines? An answer to these questions is necessary before I heartily recommend Shadows of Old Paris, by G. Duval, illustrated by J. Gavin (Francis Griffiths: 12s. 6d). When I visit any district or city unknown to me, I prefer to take ...

... . By Vedette. IF I had been Mr. Arthur Hardy I should have been inclined to postpone my production of the new Vice Versâ until the Christmas holidays, when it would have been sure of filling Mr. Chudleigh's cosy theatre with school boys eager for the fantastic fray of Mr. Anstey's school room farce. But after all this should be a timely triumph merely postponed, since the merry piece of semi ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HIS OWN MEPHISTOPHELES. MR. CECIL RALEIGH, always worthy of attention as the Shake speare of Drury Lane, resolved to do something all his own, untrammelled by the necessities of spec tacle and the other limi tations for success at the National Theatre. This effort of independence was produced the other day at the Coronet, which is almost to be included ii the theatres ...

... j OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. J COUNT HANNIBAL. AT THE NEW THEATRE. Count Hannibal, with which Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Asche have come back to us, has been drawing big houses to the New Theatre. The play, which I believe has done very well also overseas, was heard of before Mr. Asche and his wife went on their travels, but was not acted in London. I see that the name of Stanley Weyman, the author of the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A SINGLE MAN, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. I HOPE--and think--that Mr. Maude has got another success. A Single Man, by Mr. H. H. Davies--whom we are beginning to know very well--is not at all a bad little play. Its methods are not subtle, its details are not from far afield, and there is nothing of the problem piece about it. On the contrary, we have to be content--and are very ...

... . By G. Dorset. Hettiemann.) In one of his philosophical works Balzac treats of the successful husband, and no reader can have missed the reflection that the metier is an arduous one, but it becomes child's-play beside the patience, heroism, and martyrdom demanded of this successful wife. Esther Carey was left at the age of fifteen to provide for a family of six. New York must be a ...

... Bawbee Jock. By Amy McLaren. [John Murray.) Bawbee Jock belongs to that large family in fiction who wear an appearance of avarice and meanness because they are really the devotees of a quixotic generosity. The lady who, on an early page, proposes to Bawbee Jock, divining his rare qualities, is related to a group, quite as numerous, who choose to masquerade as beggar-maids when tl.ey are ...

... . By E. V. Lucas. (Met/men.) A book that bears Mr. Lucas's name on its cover needs no recommendation. A dozen endearing qualities spring to the mind at sight of it. himself is one of those rare beings-- too fastidious for the artist, too imaginative for the scholar, too humorous for the epicurean, yet related to each, and marked with a deep vein of domestic tenderness. Greatly alienated ...

... . BY C. N. and A. M. Williamson. (Ale t hue n, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Williamson have been travelling in Africa. One of them (one wonders which) has gone note-book in hand, con scientiously registering the flush of skies and roses, the ivory and gold of villa or minaret, the flamboyant glory of tile and turban, the mystery of white walls and veiled women and the throbbing Sahara. Across this ...

... . By Elinor Glyn. Duckworth Miss Elinor Glyn has been having a good time in Russia, so her readers are here invited to share it The gaiety, the mystery, the poetical remoteness of Russian life and thought above all, the exceeding comeliness ot Kussian officers, unmatched by anything but the gorgeous bravery of their uniforms. Quite inevit ably is the hour of one of the most dazzling, the ...

... , By Henry James. Met hue n As it is certain that if Mr. Henry James had an affair with Mr. Toots-- or The Chicken himself-- he would see to it that the affair should be fastidiously complicated, delicately super subtle, it may be imagined what happens when it is a question of dealing with highly developed, abnormally, impressionable nerves, in fact, with those of finer grain. Of ...

... AT THE CORONET THEATRE BY JINGLE. BEHIND THE VEIL j^TR. CECIL RALEIGH calls his play A Modern Legend. He further describes it as A New and Original Psychic Drama, and, for all I know to the contrary, he may be right. It is a mixture of popular religious ideals, with a more or less dashing scene of Gay Life to form a nice worldly contrast such a combination as the late Wilson Barrett ...