... 1 by A. Neil Lyons Sharp indeed is the contrast between the High Art of Mr. Onions and we mean anything but offence the Low Art of Mr. A. Neil Lyons. High and Low are not intended to de ...

... SOME NEW NOVELS ''The Inevitable Marriage For once we find ourselves unable to congratulate Dorothea Gerard upon freshness of plot. That of her new novel, published by John Long, is, in substance and ...

... by R. B. Cunninghame Graham In these noisy days or universal puDiicity, wnen so many writers strike their favourite attitudes under the lime light or shout the popular catchword into megaphone ...

... FROM NEAR AND FAR GOOD STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS The Golden Cat The following story, from the Persian manuscript of which a translation has been published under the title The Glory of the Shia World (M ...

... Ailsa Paige. By Robert W. Chambers Mr. Robert W. Chambers's new novel, published by Appleton,. is, so far as its plot is concerned, the story of the transformation of a drunken and vicious scamp, bit ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. PLAYS THAT PASS IN A NIGHT-- OR TWO. IT is not always a proof of bad authorship that a play does not succeed. A great deal depends upon the weather and not a little upon the place of production. It is now the time of the year when people do not go to the theatre with enthusiasm, when even the case-hardened deadhead who never pays for a seat hands over his voucher to a ...

... (See page 472.) Mrs. Gostling is herself an enthusiast for Auvergne, and her book is likely to make others. The writer, with her husband, lias explored more thoroughly than many travellers this part of France, and what she has seen and what she has heard are presented in a manner not only attractive but seductive. Despite of changes past and latterly, Auvergne and its people are still more ...

... AT THE CRITERION THEATRE BABY MINE BY JINGLE. THIS is a farcical comedy of the old school, and I was, therefore, very pleased to note that quite early in the piece Mr. Weedon Grossmith sat on his new hat and crushed it into a shapeless mass, because no farce is com plete without this touching and homely incident. It would not be fair, however, to suggest that the hat trick, so to speak, is ...

... AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE BY JINGLE. BELLA DONNA THIS is a play of The Dangerous Age, as it were. Its fascinating exponent is a certain Mrs. Chepstow, represented by Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Mrs. Chepstow has reached as near middle age as a charming woman is ever likely to get, and we are given to understand that she has already experienced a divorce, and that she has also been looked ...

... fRp/Jed Ratph -flraus Floreat Etona Nearly every school in England has its own customs and tradi tions, and its own peculiar history. Generally, too, one goes through one's schooldays ignorant of the school's history, no more than vaguely conscious of its traditions, but remark ably learned in the matter of its customs, which, being in the main of a sartorial nature, are upheld with an ...

... London Mights Entertainments] BY JINGLE. THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG AT DALY'S THEATRE MR. GEORGE EDWARDES has enjoyed a long and unbroken run of successes, and his latest production will certainly maintain the reputation of Daly's Theatre for bright and joyous entertainments. In one respect it seems to me to be an advance even on its predecessors, since I can remember no precedent for such ...

... Jelled ^pberiJdoss A Preface I believe it is a principle of the Higher Criticism that you must not confuse the man and the artist. In writing biographies of the dead the modern critic is careful to enunciate this postulate, but he always ends by giving away his personal bias. Even in anonymous reviews of living authors you detect too often, especially in hostile notices, the personal note of ...