28 MAY 1910, page 22

Westminster Abbey.*

THE preface to one of Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays is wittily headed " First Aid to Critics." This is what all prefaces may be, and what the humble-minded reviewer hopes to find......

The Navy Of Venice.* In This Handsome And...

Madame Wiel has told the story "of the important part [the Venetian] Navy played for more than a thousand years in developing the individuality of the Republic " ; and in doing......