26 AUGUST 1916, Page 18

Vagrant Memories. By William Winter. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. net.)—Further

"Personal Recollections" by the well-known American essayist and biographer, this time referring more particularly to people and things of the Stage in America and in this country. There are short histories and anecdotes of such notable people as Edwin Booth, Augustin Daly, Julia Marlow, Sir Henry Irving, and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. In the last chapter, "The Theatre and Morality," Mr. Winter has some interesting and also very controversial things to say on "nasty problem plays," in the course of which "certain plays by the late Mr. Ibsen" come in for condemnation.