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as a, reviewer ; hence the title to these collected

sketches. There is a. quiet and sustained humour in all his work that could not possibly be conveyed by quotation. He is perhaps at his best in the two or three burlesque plays. In, for instance, Suited at Last, adapted far amateurs by Arthur Pinero Robinson, the curtain rises on the Great Hall of Bilton Castle—the room measures 13 feet by 9—the cast enters by the wrong doors, each in turn trips over the cross-bar, they forget their parts and refer to the Mysterious: Voice (a Maeterlinckian touch.) in the left-hand bottom corner of the stage, but provision is made for all this. Their blunders are part of the plot. We leave Mr. Eckersley's Odds and Ends with a benign satisfaction that we know our readers 'will share.