Ellen Terry and her Sisters. By T. Edgar Pemberton. (C.
Arthur Pearson. 16s.)—This volume takes us into regions which we must confess to be unfamiliar. But as Miss Ellen Terry herself vouches for the accuracy of Mr. Pemberton's facts, and at the same time gives us to understand that its appear. awe is not unpleasing to her, we feel that we are not called upon to criticise. Let it be enough to say that we have found the volume, so far as our experience of it has gone, eminently readable. The first point which our author discusses is naturally the first appearance of Ellen Terry. Common belief has it that this was as Mamillius in The Winter'e Tate; but Mr. Dutton Cook started a theory, for which he vouched by personal recol- lection, that she and her elder sister Kate appeared as the two Princes in Richard III. Mr. Pemberton, it must be understood, has a way of digressing to other topics. He tells a story, for instance, of how he was made the subject of a practical joke, indeed of a complication of practical jokes, by Sothern. But whether he is keeping to the strait way or wandering a little from it, he is always good company.
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