... RUSSIA AS AN ARTIST Some f\ew Books Dealing with the Literature of Our Great -Jlly in the East Na -^77 X vv ^.HNSOMI^ebstfR wl MOtfaasSgltr.na i c. Russian Intellectual Unity VERY welcome is the new ...

... 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 ...

... w^e^mmgsarr' WMMtyMaMM-- i A.^imvir-- War Stories from Recent Books 1 C, An Impression of General Foch A BREATHLESS, intensive narrative has been penned for the press of Constable by M. Christian Mal ...

... j The War and International Law.--Dr. Anton Nyström, the learned Swede whose book, Before, During and After 1914, comes to us via Heinemann in a translation by H. G. de W ...

... Some War Stories from New Books 1_ 1 _.1WI1 Uftf Tfc W^^THCEE TX mM r-.nf-j T wERSTr P*. aabte^ nltfittnS^r-- iiii--gfl f f uafgyiniinrniHlffnTinii C, The French Thermopyla: in the North IN Dixmude, ...

... When R. G. Came to London. R. G. Knowles discovered London, by way of Liverpool, on the 8th of June, 1891; and London discovered him, by way of the Trocadero, on the 13th. In the bill also on that momentous date were, among others, George Beauchamp and Charles Chaplin, descriptive singer and father of Charlie Chaplin of film fame. R. G.'s number went up, and he walked on. His first few ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. PUSS IN BOOTS, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. BEFORE you have been long at the Drury Lane pantomime you feel with even more certainty than when you entered the building that we are going to win this war. It would be difficult to say how the impres sion is caused, for practically no reference is made on the stage to the big subject. Is it the cheerful optimism of the part-author, ...

... ROUND T HE T H E A T R E S. PEN,-- Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell has done such good work that he probably knows as well as anybody that Pen will not do at all. If he did not discover the truth at rehearsals, the first performance can have left him in no doubt; but I hope for the sake of his reputation as an artist that enlightenment came earlier still, and that as he wrote he felt that ...

... ROUND THE T H E A T R E S. KULTUR AT HOME.-- Here, you must know, Mr. Rudolf Besier and Mrs. Sybil Spottiswoode show us German officers as they are. At any rate, I suppose we must take it so. The only German household I ever entered contained no officer, and it happened some twenty years ago, before culture had developd to its present intensity. Conse quently, I am in no position to say ...

... THE LIBRARY. THE SOUTH DOWNS. THE London Brighton Railway Company is to be congratulated on the excellent handbook for the South Down country which they have just issued. This hand book. which is far in advance of the ordinary type of literature of this kind, is written by one who veils his identity under the pseudonym of The Tramp. The author is manifestly in love with the glorious country ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. DADDY LONG-LEGS, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. ON the stage, American humour has always been more popular with the English public than American drama, which lacks subtlety and imagination, or American sentiment, which is sentimentality. You feel that the humour of Americans is their own, whereas their seriousness, except in business affairs, is a copy of that of older ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. FOLLOW THE CROWD, AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. THE Empire set itself a very hard standard to live up to when it staged the revue, Watch Your Step, in the month of May, 1915, and, ap parently realising this, the management, when the time came at last to make a change, did the best thing possible by following up their success with another revue by the same com poser, Irving ...