... . PRACTICAL HINTS ON PLAY-WRITING. Miss Afnes Platt's useful little book (Stanley Paul and Co., 3s. 6d. net) certainly bears out the adjective with which its title opens, for it is full of sound advice and serviceable tips to the aspirants to dramatic honours. Miss Platt says in her Foreword I do most fervently believe that the dry bone of stage technique can be taught -in fact, all my ...

... . MR. RATHMELL WILSON. Tho Cazton Book Shop has isued a half-crown new edition of Rc 1 Birth, Rathmell Wil*on'> roman tio novel dealing with stage life and tho theory ol re-incarnation. This was originally written in 1908 and published in 1909, when the ad venturous and versatile author, a good deal younger then ho now is, was a veritable Bohemian in Lon- [don, though, indeed, Mr. Wilson r ...

... . Mr. Clifford King's New Poems. f iteadws of air. Clifford King's c poams, dramatic and otherwise, will e be interested to learn tlwt he has issued three-volume collection of _ hn latest work under the t;i!e of New Poems (Dranes, I,td., Daj.e geld Houae 82a, Farringdon Street, E.C.) a.t the reasonable price, in these times, of 18s. net. The first volume, wtiidh runs to 600 odd pajres, is ...

... . ROMANTIC PROSE. Granted that there are many theatregoers who do not possess the authentic Savoy libretti of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, or who are unfamiliar with the intricacies of the proverbially topsy-turvy plots, such poor lost souls might find comfort in the romantic prose version of the Gilbert and Sulli- j van operas made by Lillian Brad- 1 s.uck, and now issued at 7s. 6d. ...

... . MR. JEROME'S BOOK. A fine coloured reproduction of de László's portrait of Jerome K. Jerome serves as frontispiece to that versatile man's volume styled My Life and Times, issued at 16s. net by Hodder and Stoughton. To us what Mr. Jerome says about his Times is as interesting as are tho details of his Life proper, though there may bo varying grades of importance in tlie book. Certainly ...

... . FROM STAGE TO BAR. Under this odd title, showing how a man of the theatre became the landlord of a country inn, has been published at 1s., by the firm of W. J Parrett, Ltd., of the Isle of Thanet Gazette, the recollections of Mr. R. H. Lindo. which appeared in our columns after his retirement from Drury Lane. Some mention of this fact, might surely have oecn made after the re-issue of ...

... . MY GARDEN. An interesting booklet, partly in verse, partly in pithy prose, has been issued, at Is. bo., by Ethel Montague, who is proud to trace her desecnt from the cele brated Bumey family. Her great-great-grandfather was Dr. Charles liurney, who wrote tho first. History of Musio published, and whose bi centenary has recently been commemorated. Dr. Burnev was father of Fanny Bumey, known ...

... . THE BRISTOL STAGE. Two small and also deeply interesting volumes on different aspects of the Bristol Stage have come to hand. One of them, issued at 2s. 6d. net by the Fountain Press, at 10, Clifford's Inn, sets, out to tell the story of the stage of that western city from 1490 to 1925. and is styled more a love-letter than n history by it3 authoress or compiler, Miss M. E. Board, whose ...

... . NERINA. A Lyrical Drama in lhree Acts. By Phbct Pinkerton. Set to \Tncir> lio ('mm ks Ha t Gil AN. Given sufficiently elaborate operatic production, this lyrical drama, with scene laid in Medicean Florence (August, 1423), might prove a suitable addition to the repertory of the B.N.O.C or of the Carl Rosa company. Nerina, which has been written in three acts, has a short cast of six ...

... . Mr. Bernard Shaw's Suprem* Exploit. Early in the spring Messrs. Con stable will publish a new work by Mr. Bernard Shaw, which is de soribed as the author's scientific, religious, and political testament, as well as his supreme exploit in dramatic literature. In form it is a play in five acts; but every uvi> u ...

... . DRAMA IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. This, with the sub-title of the Jotswold County, is the style given to a very creditable and aborious piece of book-making or compilation, done by a man of Houcestershire (though born in London), Theodore ;iarK vynose orotner, oeorge Frederic, was for years with the ienson company. Mr. T. Hannam- }lark, who has fulfilled many offices of importance in the city ...

... . WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE very welcome is the revised and enlarged edition of Who's Who in the Theatre (London: Hir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.), for the preceding edition, which was the fourth, la now six years old. As Mr. John Parker, the Indefatifthre compiler and editor of tills valuable biographical handbook of the contemporary stage, says in a brief prefatory note, great changes ...