... By a Returned Prisoner of War MONEY is of little help to our countrymen interned in Germany. Butter, ham, bacon, jam, margarine, lard, etc., are all at prices which verge on the fa ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE LONDON COLISEUM THERE was a lime when the London Coliseum had some spare seats, but that was when it was a very young Coliseum. For some years past it has been finely up holstered with humanity twice a day, and so long as it pursues its present policy of putting on the stage a three hours' entertainment made un of the best variety turns obtainable its success is likely ...

... It O U N 1) T H E T II E A T It E S. THE BOOMERANG.' The habits of this mythical creature are described in an extract from Webster's Dictionary on the pro gramme at the Queen's Theatre. I call it mythical because I once had one, a real one from Australia, and practised with it, and it would pass from my hand in a direct line and smash anything straight in front and at which it was thrown, but ...

... . UNDER this ambitious title, Mr. R. G. Knowles, the American comedian, gives to the public his life- history and travels. He has had a strenuous and diversified career, and his experiences, many of them strange and curious, are told with much humour and flavoured with a due seasoning of those dry stories which the author, when on the stage, so well knows how to make use of. In his early ...

... . MRS. DE BURGH DALY, the authoress of this book, went out to China in the year 1888 to take charge of a hospital for Chinese women, and has spent some twenty years of her life in that country. She has lived in the north as well as the south, and has a very intimate knowledge of the country and its inhabitants. She has been through such troubled times as the Chinese-Japanese War, the Boxer ...

... ROUND THE T H E A T R E S. THE JOAN DANVERS.-- This is written by Captain Frank Stayton, home wounded from Gallipoli, though I imagine that he wrote it some little time ago. It bears signs of what may, I think, be called the Stanley Houghton period. Of course, Captain Stayton has been writing plays for far longer than that; it must be quite ten years, and probably more, since his first was ...

... Kettle on the Boil Again. Captain Kettle was-- dare we say it?-- boiling over in his adventures on the War-path. Not being judged fit to serve with the forces-- naval or military-- worried him; but most certainly did not stop his activity. 'I've tried everything, Sir and not one of them will have me. They say I've a wooden leg.' 'And that's 's not true,' broke in Lady Kettle. 'The ...

... The Romantic Woman. By Bridget Maclagan. Constable The experienced taster of ro mance may very well be left to this clever, vivid example of its type, with one recommendation --to begin at the second chapter, and take the first last but one; otherwise, it will be only time wasted in wild guessing as to what that first chapter is all about. It may be an old story-- the American heiress wedding ...

... WTHE La Nurse. Modern Rumania, the Sphinx of the Near East, is not the theme of these letters, written by Millie Ormonde to her cousin, Edmund Talbot, Squire of Talwood, Devonshire, when she was La Nurse to a Bucharest family-- Jewish-- in the days of the late King Charles. That is nothing against them: on the contrary, it lends them a certain mild piquancy and familiarity they might not ...

... .T^GS^TKEMfiES.: THE new revue, Pell Mell, at the Ambassadors', has all the irresponsible gaiety of its predecessors, and is rather more ambitious in its spectacular effects. Its parody of a musical comedy business office and its Arabian Nights scene will bear com parison with other revues whose chief ambition is dress and colour and gorgeousness: but it still retains that intimate family ...

... Two Men, a Spinster, and a Boat. Freckles broached the idea, and The Spinster and The Nut, enterprising and of adventurous spirit, fell in with it at once: one said, I should love to: the other. Ripping idea! Then came the solemn covenant. Said Freckles: I propose-- simply because I have no money to speak of myself-- that we do the whole thing on one hundred and fifty pounds each you ...

... IflraE LITER^^I^OlI^E^fl An Introduction. For the most part, these Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life are concerned with things theatrical; but that does not make the book any less interesting to those to whom theatre is but a word: it is a study in humanity, with and without grease-paint. None interested in the stage can afford to miss it; and the same may be said of those merely interested ...