... roots. Of the four races, the Tshi- speaking peoples are the least civilised, and the Ga-speaking peoples slightly more advanced, while among the Ewe-speaking peoples we can see the crude conceptions of the Tshi-speaking tribes considerably modified, and ...

... The Americans are not only invading Cuba, but, theatrically speaking, England as well. The number of playhouses given up to American plays or American companies is daily growing. Strictly speaking, it is not an American company that is engaged in the re ...

... the meaning of life by a man of poetic temperament, Mr. Asche spends all his effort in attempting to speak the speech naturally, as he himself would speak if such words came into his head in ordinary circumstances among companions willing to put up with ...

... 6d. Seven short visions by a young Jewess, who is compared to a 'Dyson or Raeinakers of the pen. In A Song of War she speaks of the Iron Cross as that on which Christ has been crucified.. ...

... ies for 1S96 (The Scientific Press, Limited) is edited by Mr. H. C. Burdett, than whom there is no one more competent to speak on the subject. The book deals with institutions which collectively spend each year a sum amounting to something between twenty ...

... and Mr. Lloyd George, he says that demagogues often end by being demigods. His imperialism is already out of date, for he speaks of us as a great country with its satellites of colonies. ...

... This arrangement has obviously its conveniences, seeing that while Signor Salvini, when he does speak, speaks Italian, all the rest of the company are to speak in English. Owing to Miss Ellen Terry's indisposition the character of Olivia in Mr. Wills's play ...

... THE curious run, so to speak, upon dramatic versions of the well-known anecdote of Garrick's generous effort to cure the stage- struck young lady of her passion, seems likely to be of short dura tion. Mr. Wyndham has abandoned his intention of producing ...

... entertainment, interspersed with clever dialogue. Its music is of the old popular kind, which does not require any voice to speak of; and its literary pretensions do not rise above clever puns of the old-fashioned verbal species. But its action is brisk ...

... in association with Mr. Edouin, Miss Whitty, and other members of the Strand company. Unfortunately it is not possible to speak equally well of a piece entitled The Lady Guide or, Breaking the Bank brought out on the same afternoon at Terry's Theatre ...

... The performances are, as usual, to consist exclusively of operas in English, with, if report speaks truly, Madame Albani, who, though French-Canadian, speaks our language fluently, as the bright particular star. Wagner and his family returned to Berlin ...

... but nothing more. Somehow, with all her ability and literary skill, she does nJt seem to have the novelist's touch, so to speak, which can often make much worse stories a great deal more interesting. As a dramatic poem, in which more licence of plot and ...