Related article: and his great adversary David Strath, and by Allan Robertson, and curios in the shape of feather balls and old - fashioned clubs, while Musselburgh sends several of its venerable prize trophies and clubs used by the Dunns, the Gourlays, and others of its famous players. ''The Wilderness" at St James's Theatre. — Recent pro- ductions at the St. James's Theatre have not resulted m the long runs which at one time were almost invariably associated with the name of Mr. George Alexander ; but we are glad to think that ** The Wilderness" will run for many a night. Mr. H. V. Es- mond has written a charming play full of pretty sentiment and free from any unwholesome pro- blem. Just the simple story of a young girl who marries a man for wealth and position without stay- ing to wonder if she could ever love him, or whether that would matter — for as she says, " Love is not one of my subjects." After a few months of married life we find the girl devotedly in love with her husband, but haunted always by the memory of her un- worthy conduct when she accepted his hand and professed a love of which she then knew nothing. She cannot rest until she tells her husband all the story of her worldliness. Meantime he dis- covers her secret, and misunder- standing her present sentiments towards him, is all for doing the best he can for her happiness by effacing himself from her life. After obvious explanations the story ends prettily enough with the passionate embraces of hus- band and wife who have found their way " from the wilderness into the light." Miss Eva Moore as Mabel ^ I 392 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Mat Vaughan, the heroine, has the great Caverta Price India part in the play, and admi- rably well does she represent the passing moods of the worldly little lady, whilst as the story proceeds the clever actress makes a real woman of Mabel. Miss Eva Moore has her chance and lias taken advantage of it, and we think that the success of the pro- duction is to a very great extent due to her admirable study of Mabel Vaughan. Mr. Alexander as Sir Harry Milanor the mil- lionaire husband is seen to ad- vantage as a nice man. We like him thus, and as he was in ** Liberty Hall" wholesome and good, better than as Jim Trower, or such squires of dames. His part albeit is probably not the most attractive one that he has had to play, for he has at times to talk a great deal about very little, and poor Uncle Joe— excel- lently played by Mr. H. H. Vincent — has to listen to a good deal of babble during his romantic walk in the woods. Modem drama will not stand long solilo- quies, so there have to be Uncle ioes to listen to the musings of eroes which are not even by that expedient rendered entirely free from tedium. Mr. Aubrey Smith gives another of his admirable little character sketches which makes us regret more than ever that we see so little of this excel- lent actor. Mr. Graham Browne has a difficult part in Jack Ken- nerly, the lover who does not want to be married ; and of Mr. Lennox Pawle we see but little, that is, in point of time. The ladies, with the exception of Miss Eva Moore, have little to do, and do it very well. Miss Le Thiere making a hit as an old lady. Sir Harry's mother. As is always the case at the St. James's, the play is most admirably put on and dressed, and "The Wilder- ness " in the West End bids fair to emulate the success of •• The Jungle " in the City. Sporting I ntelligence. [During Maroh^-April, 1901.] A MEETING of the Committee of the (Hamorgan Hunt, appointed to determine the question of Hunt subscriptions, was held on March loth at the Angel Hotel, Cardiff. It was unanimously resolved Caverta Uk : — That gentlemen other than landowners or covert owners, or bona-Jide tenant farmers, hunting with the Glamorgan Hounds, will in future be expected to subscribe at the rate of at least £5 5s. per annum for every day per week that they hunt with them, with a minimum of £^Z 8s., 1.^., one day per week £,% 8s., two days £\o los., three days ;f 15 15s. In addition to the above, there is a subscription to the poultry fund of £,^y or a 3s. per day cap from those who do not subscribe to the poultry fund. A meeting of the committee of the New- market and Thurlow Foxhounds was held on March 26th, when the offer of the re- tiring master, Mr. Pemberton Barnes, 10 present ten couples of hounds to the Hunt was accepted. Little Eva covered the Lincolnshire Handicap course (i mile) in I min. 42 2-5 sec, on March 26th. At a meeting held at the Victoria Hotel, Douglas, on NIarch 27th, a presentation was made to Mr. Armitage Rigby, in re- cognition of his services as Hon. Sec. to the Isle of Man Harriers during the past eight years. The presentation was made by Mr. Goldie - Taubman, on behalf of the members of the Hunt. Captain Hamer, of Glanyrafon Hall, Denbighshire, died suddenly at Oswestry on March 28th. I90I.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 393 He was an enthusiastic sportsman, and was especially fond of cricket and angling, owning a celebrated reach of the River Tanat, and for some years being captain of the Oswestry Cricket Club. While riding Lady Gatacre's mare, Scarlaiina, in the Subscribers* Sweepstake at the Essex and Suffolk Hunt Point to- Point Races held at Little Bromley Hall, near Manningtree, on March 28lh, General Sir William Gatacie sustained a fractured collar-bone through the mare falling early in the race. An accident occurred to Mr. H. B. Chandler, of North Gloucester, while hunting with the Ledbury Hounds on March 28ih, near Upton*on-Severn, re- sulting in a broken right arm. The time occupied byGrudon in com- pleting the course for the Grand National, at Liverpool, on March 29th, was 9 min.