15 JUNE 1895, Page 22

critical notices of the plays of the year, and Mr.

Shaw has sup- plied a not very encouraging disquisition on the drama as it is at present carried on in London. Mr. Shaw is, as our readers possibly know, a fervent Ibsenite, and is loud in complaint that no manages found it worth while to produce that dramatist's Wild Duck. This is not the place to argue about Ibsen's merits, but we may state our opinion that if managers and the public which they are bound to please had nothing worse laid to their charge, it would be well The modern stage is, in fact, a somewhat hopeless business, and there is much to make one agree with the old Puritan feeling, and abjure the whole affair.