18 JANUARY 1919, page 19

The France I Know.*

Miss Seem - ems has lived much in France, and has some claim to consider herself an authority on many subjects connected with the country's social, political, and literary life......

From The Home Front.*

The public stock of harmless pleasures has been so often enriched by Sir Owen Seaman that it is almost superfluous now to say anything further in his praise. The present......

Douglas Jerrold.•

Tut: claim of Douglas Jerrold to be regarded no a "dramatist and wit " is not to be denied. But his plays for all their sparkle and brilliant rhetoric fail to keep the boards,......