16 FEBRUARY 1929, page 11

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 14TH, 1829. TALES or Felines. • Well-regulated minds take no pleasure except in the perusal of that which is consistent with the principles on which......

M U S I C

PERSONAL REACTIONS IN CRITICISM ANYTHING that Mr. Ernest Newman writes is certain to command respect, even when it provokes a contrary argument. Reading him, it is always......

The Theatre

[" THE SACRED FLAmE.- BY W. SOMERSET' MAUGIIAAL AT TEE. PLAYHOUSE1 - HAS anyone been talking to Mr. Somerset Matigham ? Has anybody—remembering- The Circk,---told him that. he......