12 JUNE 1897, Page 26

The Charm, and other Drawing room Plays.. By Sir Walter

Besant and Walter Pollock. (Chatto and Windus.)—These eight plays (all republished from various magazines) are of a simple kind, suited in this and other respects for private representations. The one change we would make in them would be to change the prose into verse. Prose is difficult to learn, and readily admits of more " gag " than is commonly desirable.