28 DECEMBER 1895, Page 26

The Drama Birthday Book. By Pery S. Phillips. (Macqueen.) —The

quotations affixed to the days in this birthday-boak are from the later dramatists of the nineteenth century, so that their prevailing note is either flippancy or cynicism. The quotations are scarcely suited for the moral teaching of the young, but as nobody ever reads these snippets more than once, even if they do that—whether they be Shakesperian or Proverbial—not much harm is done. }'or the rest the book is pretty enough, and may strike the fancies of the fin-de-sidcle youth and the theatrical

profession, but we should certainly decline to write our name ih it.