12 MAY 1923, page 19

English Diaries.*

" L'homme qui a le temps d'ecrire un journal intime nous parait tie pas avoir suffisamment compris combien le monde est vaste." —RENAN, Fealties Ditachtes. MR. ARTHUR PONSONBY......

Some New Plays.*

IT was very odd that the plays of Browning—most dramatic of poets—should have proved so ilt-suited to the stage, almost as odd as that Shelley, a lyrical and elegiac poet,......