18 SEPTEMBER 1909, page 9

"king Lear " At The Haymarket Theatre. T He Haymarket...

has opened a new era very well under the directorship of Mr. Herbert Trench. He is " serious," as the French say, or we may guess that he would not have dropped his " serious "......

Two Centenaries.

O F the centenaries so numerously sprinkled over 1909, there are none more interesting to those who love English literature than those of Samuel Johnson and Alfred Tennyson.......