21 NOVEMBER 1925, page 21

The Popular Stage Of Japan

Kabuki: The Popular Stage of Japan. By Zo5 Kincaid (Macmillan. 42s. net.) MANT of those who read Mrs. Irmeaid's book on the Japanese popular stage will perhaps remind themselves......

We Regret That We Gave Last Week The Publishers Of

Mr. Nigel Play - lair's lively new book, The Slaty of the Lyric . Theatre, Hammersmith, as Messrs._ Constable. The book is published by Messrs." Chatto and Windus, to whom we......

This Week's Books

THE packers' strike has delayed the publication of many books ; the table looks bare and uninteresting. It is the strike that has compelled us to cancel the Literary Supple-......

The Clarendon Press Send Us A Large And Thorough Work

upon Olympia : History and Remains, by Professor E. Norman aaidiner. There are many excellent photo- graphs of the site and of the works of art found there. Another .book from......

Mr. Osbert Burdett, Of Course, Walks Most Familiarly In The

. nineteenth century. In his Critical Essays (Faber and Gwyer)_ he does not show the lucidity and easy friendship with critical standards that mark Mr. Dobree ; he has a mind......

Lest We Should All Grow Parochial In Our Literary...

as when . a critic. said recently, without hesitation and pre- sume* without thought, that Shelley was undeniably one among the three or four greatest lyric poets the world has......

Another Book To Cure Us Of Insularity Is Mr. Aubrey

F. G. Bell's Contemporary Spanish Literature - (Knopf). There are approximately one hundred authors criticised in this survey, most of them still living. • * *......