10 AUGUST 1951, page 13

Theatre

COMPARED with some other recent productions, especially the one at the Old Vic earlier this season, Stratford's Henry V is a little on the gloomy side. There are the trumpets......

Music

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is an obvious operatic subject, has indeed been used for an opera ; but The Mayqr of Casterbridge has not, to my knowledge, been attempted until this......

Exhibition

" EIVrERED at Stationers' Hall." The words have not been seen in a new book since 1911, when the Copyright Act finally removed from the Stationers' Company the ancient privilege......