Shadows of the Stage. By William Winter. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—Mr.
Winter has put together in this little volume twenty-eight essays on the stage and those who have trodden it. He first discusses the question that never can be answered :—" Was the stage of the past better than the stage of the present ? " The others deal with great performers and performances that the writer has seen. "Irving in Faust,'" "Ellen Terry in The Merchant of Venice," "Mary Anderson" (with a special refer- ence to her impersonations of Hermione and Perdita), "Lawrence Barrett," and " Salvini," are among the subjects treated of. Readers will find some of their most pleasant recollections of the drama in England and the States pleasantly revived by these pages. There is a curious little mistake in arithmetic on Mr. Winter's first page. If an actor contemporary with Shakespeare -was born in 1576 and died in 1654, we do not see how "he was in his eighty-third year when he passed away."
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