20 DECEMBER 1884, page 16

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BECKET.* Tax Poet-Laureate, in dedicating his drama to Lord Selborne, -explains that Becket "is not intended in its present form to meet the exigencies of our modern theatre;"......

Humphry Sa.ndwith.*

MR. WARD has hardly received sufficient credit for his skill as a biographer. His subject has fascinated the critics ; and they hardly notice the art which has made the life of......