... . MR. J. M. BARBIE'S comedy, Little Mary, has passed its one hundredth and fiftieth representation, but there is little if any falling off from its popularity. Miss Nina Boucicault nightly adds to the number of her admirers as the exponent; of the principal part, and Mr. John Hare, who has been temporarily absent through indisposition, has now returned to resume his position in the cast of the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE ELECTRIC MAN. AT THE NEW ROYALTY THEATRE. ONE is glad to see Mr. Harry Nicholls at the theatre again, though to see him at the Royalty is perhaps to see him from too near. His style, so largely formed in big houses, is somewhat too broad and too emphatic for the bijou auditorium in Dean-street. However, ho is very clever and genial, and quaint always, and no doubt ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE ALHAMBRA. THE drama, at present gives us few now things which stay long enough with us to be worth noting before they go. The mischief comes, I fear, largely from the actor-manager system. Too many theatres nowadays get into the hands of gentlemen and ladies who consider that the public thinks as highly of them as they, on their side, do of their very mediocre selves. ...

... . A. B. C. of Housekeeping. By Mrs. J. N. Bell. (Henry J. Drane, l8-) A. B. C. of Cookery for Invalids. By Mrs. John Kiddle. (Henry J. Drane, Is.) Forty Fancies and Seven Songs. By Amelia M. Barker. (Henry J. Drane, Is.) The White Prince of the Stolen Roses. By Kate Stanway. (Henry J. Drane, 3s. Gd.) In the Great White Land. By Gordon Stables, R.N. (Blaokie and Son, Ltd., 3s. 6d.) The ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAGDA, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL is an actress-manager, and Magda is a play which a lady free to choose her own part can scarcely be blamed for selecting. All the glory goes to the heroine, and it is rather easily won glory, coming as it does chiefly from declamation, in which most women who are women can without great effort hold their own. I do not ...

... . lHE Hippolytus of Euripides, even as done into English by Mr. Gilbert Murray, is hardly a promising production for a summer day, hut it was carried through with re markable success on the 26th ult. by the New Century I heatre Society. A good many of the patrons were uneasy in their seats during the long and gloomy opening with the moanings of Phaedra, guilty of an unholy passion for her ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. SAID Johnson, apropos of She Stoops to Conquer, I know of no comedy for many years which has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so well the great end of comedy, making an audience merry. How did they then act the only one of Goldsmith's three plays which had a great deal of success with its contemporary public? That we shall never ...

... . My Lady Molly is determined to be at her best on the scene of her birth and to go one better than her second self now on her travels in the suburbs. The simple but interesting story and Mr. Sidney Jones's delightful music have attracted widespread attention and have afforded un qualified delight to thousands. There is good authority for declining to paint the lily and to perfume the rose, ...

... LATE THEATRES. ADELFHI, WALDORF, COURT, AND WYNDHAM'S. THERE is little need to discuss the reason which has caused the Shakespearean play now revived by Mr. Otho Stuart at the Adelphi to have been ignored for some thirty years, even by the West-end managers most, classical in their taste and enterprise. That Measure for Measure is a fine specimen of poetic comedy of the more serious kind is ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. THE TAMING OE THE SHREW. SHAKESPEARE and Mr. E. R. Benson, now generally recognised as the Shakespearean enthusiast, have both been badly mauled by critical pens since the revival, on the 2nd inst., at the Comedy Theatre, of The Taming of the Shrew. The poet-dramatist has been taken to task by the superior person for writing a piece so extravagant in its farcical humour, ...

... THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY. WAR IN PRAC TICE. Major Baden- Powell, an accom- plished soldier, whose work is in troduced by a pre face written b y his distinguished brother, has given us an interesting and useful book. It is to a great ex tent the story of the war with the Boers from a dis- t i n c 1 1 y military point of view; it shows how far theory worked out in practice, where it failed, and ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN OF FORTY. I SUPPOSE that I shall be accused of affinities more popular than aristocratic when I express the thought that eleven o'clock is quite late enough for a theatrical performance to finish. It is all against the thorough enjoyment of the last half-hour of an entertainment that one's attention should be complicated with anxieties about catching the last ...