22 OCTOBER 1904, Page 22

The Florentine Chair : a Comic Idyll. By St. John

Lucas. (Sidney Appleton. 3s. 6d.)—Readers of the Spectator have made acquaintance with Mr. St. John Lucas as a poet. Of his skill in threading the paths of fantastic comedy The Florentine Chair affords very agreeable evidence. The imbroglio on which this "comedy of courtship" is based might easily have been exploited on risky lines, but Mr. Lucas's handling of it is both chivalrous and humorous.

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