13 JANUARY 1894, Page 26

The Entr'acte Annual for 1894 is, like its predecessors, an

agreeable collection of light papers, dealing with actors, actresses, and acting, profusely illustrated by Mr. Alfred Bryan in his usual vein of broad but not unpleasing caricature. The Annual would have been all the more acceptable, however, had it not contained a paper on the late Mr. F. B. Chatterton, and dwelling a good deal more upon his weaknesses than upon his good points. No doubt the writer of this article tries to be scrupulously fair, but was this not emphatically a case for de mortuo nil nisi bonum?