3 JULY 1880, Page 21

Amateur Theatricals. By Walter H. Pollock and Lady Pollock (Macmillan

and Co.), will be found to contain plenty of useful hints, the outcome of a considerable experience. Theatricals are, probably, always more or less of an amusement, not unmixed, indeed, with pains, to those who engage in thorn. What they may be to the spectator is quite a different matter. Their success depends in no small degree upon a number of small matters of management, which before actual trial are hardly so much as known. Those who meditate amusing themselves and their friends in this way would do well to study this manual.