... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. PETER THE GREAT. HISTORY is only made to be falsified-- although it would not be well that every one should know it; for why should folk worry themselves about Fame-- which the first-coming literary aspirant is licensed to knock into a cocked hat? Mr. Laurence Irving is, I am sure, a most deserving young man; and when he has lived a little longer in the world will, I ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. I AM told that Mr. Tree's Shakespearean revivals have been financially successful. This is satisfactory for Mr. Tree, and evidently also to at least a certain section of playgoers. Whether these faithful supporters of His Majesty's like the scenery most, or most like the act ing, or whether indeed they are at tracted by ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A NIGHT OUT, AT THE CRITERION THEATRE. A Night Out, by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Des vallières, came to us first in 1906 from Paris by way of America, and had a run of 500 performances. The only member of the Vaudeville company who reappears in the Criterion revival is Mr. George Giddens. Miss Fannie Ward as the heroine, Mrs. Edmund Phelps as the deceived wife, Mr. ...

... . It goes without saying that there was a crowded attend ance here 011 Tuesday afternoon to witness the revival of- Mr. W. S. Gilbert's parody of Hamlet, entitled Bosen- crantz and Gvildenstern, which was presented for the benefit of the Bushey Heath Cottage Hospital. Apart from the fun of the thing, there was the promise that the various parts would be sustained by well-known writers, ...

... . MR. F. C. SELOUS'S museum at Worplesdon, in Surrey, which has been recently much enlarged, contains un doubtedly the most wonderful one-man collection of big game trophies in Europe. Here are to be seen, by the courtesy of the owner, the matchless collection of heads and horns acquired by the great hunter during a career of more than twenty-five years in South Africa. In later years Asia ...

... LATE THEATRES. A Judge's Memory, at Terry's. MR. BRANDON THOMAS'S new play is not another Charley's Aunt, and it is only fair to him to admit that, save as re gards its possible success, he evidently did not intend it to be. His central study of character in A Judge's Memory, as his piece at Terry's is called, has a pathetic rather than a comic interest, and his plot is on the lines of ...

... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vebette. I DO not suppose for a moment that, when last season Mr. Frederick Harrison revived The Man from Blankley's, he regarded it as anything but a stop-gap. The original run of Mr. Anstey's piece, with Mr. Charles Hawtrey in the rôle which fitted him so well, was still fresh in the memory of playgoers, too fresh to make it seem likely that the fun would catch on ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. IT is a pity that Dickens could not complete his Mystery of Edwin Drood. But I have no doubt myself of what would have been his explanation of it. Three paragraphs at the end of the 21st chapter make it obvious that Rosa Bud is to marry the young man called Tartar; which means that, unless Drood was masquerad ing as ...

... . By Vedette. To criticise a theatrical production given at a charity matinée is, I suppose, to make the mistake of looking a gift-horse in the mouth; yet something beyond a mere record seems necessary in the case of the chief item of the programme arranged at the New Theatre the other day by Mr. Luther Munday, in aid of the Royal Waterloo Hospital. I may pass over the preliminary rendering ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. HUMOUR, like most things, needs encouragement in order to keep up to the mark, and at pre sent there is not much encouragement. Playgoers nowadays laugh so readily at small fun that good joking is no longer worth the trouble of itself, so far as the bulk of people who go to theatres are concerned. It is the same with ...

... WE have had so many books on African shoot- ing during the last ten or fifteen years, most of them bearing a strong family likeness to one another, that the public as well as the critic is in some danger of becoming satiated with this kind of fare. Lord Hindlip's volume is an average speci men of the modern sporting book. It is furnished with the usual complement of photographic repro ductions ...

... . By Vedette. POPULAR PLAYHOUSES, LTD., which is responsible for the new production at the Lyceum, has certainly done its best to justify the name under which it carries on its art and trade. If ever there was a popular writer of novels and plays, one has certainly been secured in Mr. Hall Caine, whose sentiment reaches the heart of as large a public as does the kindred satire of Miss ...