30 JUNE 1900, Page 40

Some Notable Hamlets. By Clement Scott. (Greening and Co. 2s.

6d.)—Mr. L. A. Greening contributes by way of preface an "appreciation" of Mr. Clement Scott, an essay which, saving our standing objection to "appreciations," or writing of any kind, about living men, is sufficiently well done. The " Hamlets" Of the present time whom Mr. Scott criticises or describes are five in number,—Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving, Wilson Barrett, Beerbohm Tree, and Forbes Robertson. Though Mr. Scott began his work early, he was not in time to see Pechter, who if he could have played the part without having to open his mouth would have been perfection. His judgments on the 'five actors named we have no intention of reviewing.