Mr. Hall Came's much-talked-of drama-tie version of his last novel was produced by Mr. Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty' theatre," as it is now called, last night. It is another of Mr. Tree's magnificent spectacles. The scenes at Rome—the Coliseum, the Vatican Gardens—are among the most perfect exnuples of stage neonery ossians and crowds have been wonderfully which have over been seen; and the pro-
stage-managed. But as to the merits of the play opinions differ rather widely.
Hall Came has very wisely relegated quite to the background the moral and social lessons which his novel was intended to enforce; hut in so doing he has brought his work into the region' of pure melodrama. However, there is a large section of the theatre-going public which loves melodrama; and when it is accompanied by such series of gorgeous spectacles as those presented on the stage of His Majesty's it is pretty sure to prove attractive The New Lord Mayor.
Michaelmas Day has been from time immemorial the day on which London elects its Lord Mayor; and this time the selection of the Commoners and Aldermen has as usual fallen on the senior Alderman." below the chair." This is Sir Marcus Samuel, the head of a firm well-known in the Far East. He represents Port-soken, the most easterly ward of the City, and as he is moreover proud of his Jewish race he has, it is reported, determined to arrange the route of his mayoral process sion on the 9th of November, so that it shall pass along Middlesex Street, which forms part of the Eastern boundary between the City and Whitechapel. "Mid-"dlesex Street is better known to most people by its older name of Petticoat Lane, and is the contre of the Modern Jewry of London. Since the erection along its western side of huge blocks of workmen's dwellings it has lost most of its old picturesqueness; but the scene there on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath or during 'a Jewish feast is still one of the most interesting sights of London. It is probably the first time—at all events for many years—that Whitechapel has soon a Lord Mayor's show, and in view of the King's reluctant refusal to take the Royal Procession on the 25th through the Kast End its denizens will have to make the most of this pageant.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.