... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC |fjf THE FARMER'S WIFE, AT THE COURT THEATRE. THE little Court Theatre stands away in the West where the sun goes down, and theories have been advanced that this isolation from the ring of West End playhouses is the cause of its frequent change of programme. But the only theories that keep their ground in this world are those which facts cannot get at, such as that of ...

... fl f]\ y F. J.Sellieks. THE trouble between Middlesex and York shire is not yet at an end, and the issue may not be determined for some days yet. That is satisfactory as far as it goes, since there is still a possibility of a peaceful settlement, which is what all far-seeing lovers of cricket really desire. It is not right that a great game should suffer serious disturbance because here and ...

... . Charles Norman de Courcy-Parry is an ad venturer. A Cumbrian of the John Peel type, a keen huntsman, he has travelled after wild pig in Fijian forests. He has tried to trade pearls in an Arab drinking shop in New Cale donia, and finished the experiment with flashing knives and the local calaboose. From this he escaped, and crossed the island to a cargo tramp, where he had to feed inadequate ...