... VBy^HESWn __^JU==^__T_ Soldiers' Steeplechasing. THE soldier steeplechasers have had their annual jig at Sandown Park, and they have doubtless read in all the papers that their Grand Military-- the title has a sonorous ring to it-- was a tremendous success. So it was from the gate-money point of view, to say nothing of the social side of the affair. I don't think I can remember such a crush as ...

... INTERESTING NEW BOOKS. A Valuable Book. NOW that cinematography in all its various branches is one of the great industries of the present day a book such as The Handbook of Kinematography, just issued by the publishers of The Kinematograph Weekly, is of the utmost importance. The book is probably the most comprehensive work that has ever been published on the new science. It traces the ...

... F [WITH SILENT FRIENDS A Notable Book. BY MC1AM 11MG, MON mot! as they do not say abroad, but I fancy that Mr. Reginald Kauffman's book, Daughters of Ishmael (Swift), will cause a flutter in the librarian dove cots. The unimaginative people who so kindly for an unimportant sum each year not only supply us with literature but look after our morals at the same time are likely to regard this ...

... Creator59 audi I at a Cinema^ The Man Outside. IF the creature and I did not stay at home in August, when on earth should we be able to wear out the year's accumulation of old clothes? For in Balham to be shabby is to be suspected of all the deadly sins. We are extremely up to date and smart every day of the week; we are more than ordinarily gor geous when we go to pay our call on-- I ...

... A Racing' NotelbooR s By Tike Syce.9' A Wonderful Dead Heat. TO many of us who still had faith in Neil Gow it was a dull and dis appointing moment as we saw Lemberg coming along comfortably with the race for the Eclipse Stakes apparently well won two furlongs from home and Neil Gow apparently numbered amongst the also ran. The favourite wins easily It's 10 to i on Lem- berg these and such ...

... THE PASSING SHOWS. The Stap-e Year Book. THE Stage Year Book is such an interesting and useful publication that I would that it were twice as large. Also, I would that it were written with more autho rity, with a greater criticism, and with not quite so much mere chronicle of the past events of the year. Books of the Year, by L. H. Jacobsen; Mr. Sidney Valentine's in teresting article ...

... The Savoy Theatre. OUR dear old friends, Potash and Perlmutter, have developed. I don't mean that they have developed physically, but materially and financially. When in Society, which was, as it were, their second time on earth, they were disappointing. Their popular cross talk was too cross, and the talk was poor talk after all. But in Business Before Pleasure, the new comedy by ...

... INTERESTING NEW BOOMS. A Country Story. MR. EDEN PHILLPOTTS'S new story, Widecombe Fair (Mur ray), is interesting for many things. It is interesting because in a kind of introductory chapter the author airs his views as to what a writer should or should not be allowed to do. In his own particular case he claims the right to insist upon the importance of scenery as a background. If I choose ...

... A Racing' HotelbooM. By 33 T)h Syce.9' Royal Pleasure. I HAVE the best reasons for stating that his Majesty the King recently expressed his pleasure that the horses at Egerton House, trained by Richard Marsh, and at present leased to the Earl of Derby, had been showing good form on the racecourse. Two of them which had won were Perrier, since sold for 2,000 guineas to go to the Argentine, and ...

... Y An Unobserved Rule. AFTER Lance Chest had won the Princess of Wales's Stakes, beat ing the 5-to-2-on chance, Prince Palatine, he was objected to on the ground of carrying wrong weight, the point at issue being that he was an un sexed horse while the official card, for which you have to pay sixpence, indicated him to be a colt and carrying a colt's weight accordingly. All this is old news, ...

... INTILRE.STING NIEW BOOKS. Good Commonplace. FRESH AIR (Long), by Harry Temple, is commonplace in that the story has no great originality; but it is nevertheless quite as good as and a great deal better than many books issued during the publishing season. It is a tale of business and love-- the one during the day, the other in what is left over of the spare time. 1 he background is either on ...

... oW 1 1 n oiivViiN l r ivivLi >iyo is BY RICHARD KING. Midsummer Madness. I THINK that the people sitting in the hotel lounge must have thought I was mad. There is nothing so un hilarious as seeing somebody else rolling about with laughter over a book. One immediately sums up his sense of humour as primitive. The hero has probably slipped on the butter, or The heroine sat on the villain's ...