... America iaiis--and Scores By JLione I Collier THERE seems to be quite a common misconception amongst producers that a book that reads well is necessarily good material for a picture. This is obviously a fallacy, since fine writing is an end in itself ...

... Scotland 5 Ireland and America By A. G. Macdonell MICHAEL MURRAY is the pseudonym of a well-known young Scottish author and journalist, and he has written a first novel called The Noblest Prospect (Duckworth; 7s 6d.). The title is taken from the famous ...

... seems, Mr. Vaile has put the memory of that attack behind him. A Briton of the British, he now cudgels America. Mr. Vaile' calls his book, Y.} America's Peril. The initial is that of the word Yankee, who is, says the author, the nation's deadliest enemy ...

... A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICA. A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICA. By James Truslow Adams (Routledge: 12s. 6d.) (Routledge 12s. 6d.) A serious book which makes very good reading. Are the Americans mere money- grubbers What does their civilisation really stand for Are ...

... Michael Allen in America By Junius HUNDREDS of people have been thrilled by Mr. Michael Arlen's present ment of a Mayfair which doesn't exist, graphically and realistic ally described in I don't remem ber how many stories, long and short. But has Mr. ...

... love and marriage are two different things, and that not only America's millions but America's marriage is in the melting-pot. But, despite the gloomy picture that he draws of the America of to-day, from his own personal experience Mr. Des mond has belief ...

... AMERICA SUBDUES EAST lyNNE BY LIONEL COLLIER EAST LYNNE, which has re cently been shown to the Press and will probably have a West End run soon, was as inevit able as fate. It was made three or four times as a silent picture. The stern, unbending ...

... Films of the Day Africa, Europe and America By George Campbell WHEN Marie Louise (de la) Rameé-- she liked the de la, but was apparently not entitled to it-- wrote Under Two Flags in 1867, it was regarded as the last word in exotic adven ture and daring ...

... will be of great interest to English garden lovers to learn something from this book as to how their hobby is progres ing in America, and, perhaps, to learn something from the methods of good gardeners on the other side. The conditions as to soil and climate ...

... at From Ireland to °r dawn on the deck of an Atlantic America liner watching little groups of people disembark at Queenstown. They were returned emigrants. I knew that Irish emigration to America was great, but did not know that any of the emigrants came ...

... Raynham Parva, has been chosen by the Detective Story Club of America as the most outstand ing detective story to be published in July. This is the first time in the history of Book Clubs in America that any club has chosen two books written by the same author ...

... discover America. But here, to my mind, these grumblers omit to do Christopher justice. His eternal claim on the memory of mankind is that he suc ceeded in making successive voyages across the Atlantic without once discovering that portion of America which ...