1926. Contents: London Life and the Stage; Theatrical Monopoly; The London Theaters; Histrionic Development of the Playhouse; The Command of Audiences; Theatrical Management-Causes of Failure; Early Management-Kemble and Elliston: Pioneers of Reform in Management; Macready; Vestris; Conservatism and Transition-Webster, Buckstone, Phelps, and the Younger Kean; The Revolutionists-Fechter and Boucicault: The Stream of Life on the Stage; The Scene; Acting of Poetic Drama; Comic Acting; Acting in Burlesque and the Newer Comedy; Acting of Melodrama; The Robertson Comedy; Beginnings; and At the Prince of Wales's.