Tins little book is a sign and a portent. It
is a sign of the extraordinary and widespread dramatic activity which ha's quietly but suddenly sprung up amongst us during the last half dozen years, and it is a portent that the Government should have issued this, by far the most comprehensive, sympathetic and authoritative account of this movement. The bulk of the report is taken up with a detailed account of the various amateur societies, the drama in educational institutions, &c. There are chapters on the drama in the churches," " the drama in the country-side," " drama as an instrument of education," &c., &c. We strongly recommend everyone who is interested in either drama or education to get this little book. We have only one " word of complaint.: now that Government Departments arc publishing works which are far more interesting and readable than nine-tenths of our novels, they might abandon their traditional and rather repulsive format, with its numbered paragraph.- and forbidding heading " for official use."
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