... Imperial America Tmperial America. By J. M. Kennedy. (Stanley, Paul and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) Uncertainty of purpose is as dangerous in literature as in war. And Mr. Kennedy's work has suffered the due penalty of this infirmity. He set out with the double ...

... 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. ...

... HOME LIFE IN AMERICA. This is a very big title. It might well be supposed to cover ground wider than the United States, to which the writer confines herself, or the Eastern States, which also are not everywhere. But even that not unlimited portion of ...

... not only in the United States, but in every country all over the world. They were on to a good thing. I am just back from America again to report a very different set of circum stances. In the brief space of a year most of the controls governing industry ...

... Correspondence and commandos, adventure and America By Vernon Fane The Letters of a Studious and Humorous Englishman Courtship and Commandos A Macabre Picture of Postwar Europe Lemmy Caution Once Again An American History Book for Children THE book that ...

... 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 ...

... ice on a small lake. (From Recent Hunting Trips in British North America, by F. C. Selous. London: Witherby and Co.) Caribou swimming. (From Reocnt Hunting Trips in British North America, by F. C. Selous. London: Witherby and Co.) Plioto. J. 71. Bevcridge ...

... 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 ...