... TALKING ABOUT BOOKS A Critical Causerie of Good Reading By Richard King THIS WEEK'S BOOKS The Black Candle, by Judge Emily Murphy [Hurst and Blackett 12s. 6 d. Antony in Love, by Charles E. Rose I Duckworth ys. 6 d. On England, and Other Addresses, by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin Philip Allen), 12s. 6d. I WONDER why it is that almost every bad thing has to become an actual menace before ...

... To sleep, perchance to dream and really, one of these Gilbertian days it might come true. Modes and manners do change so By Chris Sewell THE fire was delicious. It glowed. It enervated. It whispered of careless days when miners were unsophistic ated folk and lived to oblige. I sat and sat, lulled into apathy; fending off the inevitable. Now some demon of unrest was jealous of my peace. If ...

... P Miss \limi Crawford vho has made such a access in R.S.V.P. is hown here wearing a lery charming race frock mom Self ridge's Salon for writes. In this famous )alon you will find nodels that have been xpressly designed for he small figure and ervice given by those vho are highly specialised h their knowledge ofi the equirements of small vomen. fascinating feature of is charming race frock s ...

... SEWING MACHINES Hand, Treadle and Electric Your local Singer Shop will gladly demonstrate them fy> Jl\ without any obligation whatever. See also the IL \fj\\ Bracket-type Electric Motor to convert ordinary l\yj VTE Singer Machines for Electric Sewing. The py? Ir^A easiest of easy payments can be arranged //y1 where desired write or call to-day If/ jrh Singer Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. St. Paul's ...

... UNDERSTAND your car is a good maxim, but how many motorists really have more than the most casual acquaintance with the mechani cal details of the car they own, or are really capable of looking after it properly? The fact is that the modern motor-car is such a reliable mechanism and the service departments of the larger firms in the trade are so efficient that it seems almost unnecessary for ...

... WOMEN OF THE DAY By VIOLA TREE Continuing the Special Series of I No. 4. Lady Violet Bonham Carter I SAW her first at the age of nine or ten at Mrs. Wordsworth's, the fashionable, indeed the only, danc ing classes for what were then called young ladies. She danced in the front row, I about two rows behind her-- I think we were about the same age, so the reason for her leading the class must ...

... The modern potter's thumb magically endues his sub jects with life and fire and character lacking in pallid bloodless clay of his i%th century predecessors By Margot Hirons SOMEBODY once said (it was probably Mr. Shaw) that if you really want to get at the truth about anything you should generally disbelieve the credible and put all your trust in the incredible. In other words, to say that a ...

... r IS ZAT SO? The camera supplies information as to w ho do es what Here is Miss, Teresa Jungman wearing one of the new trousered negligees which are the vogue of the moment. Miss Jungman, who answers to the petit nom of Baby, is Mrs. Richard Guinness' daughter I Lenare Sir George Bullough (below) talked to Lord and Lady Stanley in the paddock at Lingfeld. Sir George Bullough is the owner of ...

... EVE GOES FISH ING IN THE SOCIAL SEAS Another big ■push The Season's whirl gathers momentum Buds and their Balls Venetian Carnival AND HER MOTHER CAME TOO. THE social procession is getting more and more like the traffic in Piccadilly, or on the roads to Epsom and As cot. Its condition is ana- lagous to that of the mo tor trade more-- and more cars coming on the road and the old ones still ...

... Kennels of the day: (19) Miss Denyer s Afghan Hounds at Courtney Lodge, Sutton Courtney, Berks Telephone Abingdon 84 By Mr?. Carlo F. C. Clarke THE Afghan Hound is increasing very rapidly in popu larity in this country. Miss Denyer is, of course, well known as one of the pioneers of the breed here; she has always been keenly interested in these dogs, and has built up a really fine strain on ...

... WOMEN IN THE NEWS Positive Personal Paragraphs on Pleasantly Pertinent People By Rudolph de Cordova AEROPLANING HOLIDAYS IT was to prove that it is practically possible for the average man to buy a small aeroplane and use it as he would a car that Mrs. Forbes Sempill accompanied her hus band, the Master of Sempill, on his recent holiday in the clouds. It was also to prove the safety of this ...

... The youngest of the four daughters of the 1st Lord Brassey married in 19 x 6. Her husband, Lieut. -Col. John Murray, who is a partner in the well-known publishing firm of John Murray which was founded in 1768, commanded the 12 th battalion of the Royal Scots during the European War, and was awarded the D.S.O. with Bar, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. Lady Helen Murray is a great personality ...