... A Handbook for Dramatio Authors. By a Dramatist. Priee 2a 6d by poat U d. The work just issued is so poo ...

... . The honourable and not uneventful career of a pattern journalist of the older school is set forth, with abundant anecdote and in generally chronological order, in My Lifes Pilgrimage, by the septuagenarian Thomas Catling, now issued, in a demy octavo volume, at 10s. 6d. net. by John Murray. Many salutary lessons for professional writers and artists alike mignt be found in those series ...

... . SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEAER There has reached us from America an admirably sensible and scholarly work, Sidelights on Shakespeare, published at $1.50, by the Stratford Company, Boston, Mass. This is from the accomplished pen of Edwin Gordon Lawrence. Director of the Lawerence School of Oratory, New York, who has turned his special knowledge to excellent account in the short chap ter, the ...

... . 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 ...

... . A Rose from Montmartre. In his Author's Noto to a little volume formed of stories, essays, verces, and epigrams, published by Arthur H. Stockwell, and styled A Rose from Montmartre. Rathmell Wilson explain that, though he named this collection of writings by the title which scemed to him the set, he feels tne wnob* volume is a rose i rnn\| Moirtmurtre, for so much of It is imj ir'd ...

... . AN APPRECIATION OF H. B. Amother volume in the series of Notable Trials, published by William Hodge and Co., Ltd., is that on the Trial of the Wainwrights (10s. 6d., net), now issued. The facts that this, like other volumes on Franz Muller and Mr. Maybrick, had been edited by H B. Irving, and that he died? whilst the -nook was still in tlie {hands pf 'the publishers, toave led to Stfr ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . THB ORIGIN OF ROMEO AND JULIET Bibllographical scholarship and artistic book production are exemplified admirably in a most interesting volume or Shakeapearean importance to be credited to Maurice Jonas whose book on Shakespeare and the Stage we reviewed very fully on its publication by Davie and Orioll three and a-half ihy beautifully '-o^and ^taca1 net* Wc 'l'11 ivnio ttaT length v ...

... . THE EXEMPLARY THEATRE. It is impossible to deal exhaustively or even adequately in a neccessarily short notice with such a closely reasoned plea for the recognition of the theatre as an educational force as Harley Granville-Barker's The Exemplary Theatre (Chatto and Windus, 9s. net). The book is rightly described officially as not presenting any cut- and-drled plan. It- ts ...

... . GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. Marked by Archibald Haddon's well-known fearlessnoss and direct bluntness of expression is his volume of Green Room Gossip (Stanley Paul and Co., 6s, net), reprinted mainly from the columns of the Daily Express, to which paper the author has contributed for twenty years, and of tho Hvnilay Kxprest. Mr. Haddon an excellent photograph of whom serves as frontispiece ...

... . 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 ...