... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. The Story of K. (i). This is the story of K. (1), and that is the tabloid title of the First Hundred Thousand. The Junior Sub. shows them in the making and made-- exceedingly well made, shaped into veterans in wonder fully few months. They are seen training and trained, with their little faults and their big virtues; men every one of them, fighting- men, grousing as ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. MYSTERIES: A WOMAN AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLE* Hidden from Man. All women are mysteries; and, when they are primitive, Juju alone knows how mysterious. Even Mrs. Amaury Talbot could not affirm that everything is known to her, though she has studied moderns of her sex who dwell many years behind the times (or, perhaps we should say, the period as we Europeans realise it), has ...

... . THE theatres manage to keep the critics busy. Since last week we have had two revivals (one of a French farce, the other a French melodrama), two new English comedies, a new Anglo-French melodrama, a new Anglo-French comedy, and an experimental matinee. Presumably, The Right to Kill, at His Majesty's, was the most important event from a journalistic point of view, though in itself it is a ...

... THE CRITIC ON THE1?-- HEARTH i. By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK SAGES-- who get to know these things-- have laid it down that, whatever else may have changed, human nature is the same now as it was in the beginning: and you can't produce enough evidence to put them in the wrong. T have just read an immensely interesting book on Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation, a compilation ...

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... The Woman Thou Gavest Me. By Hall Caink. \tieinemann The woman, Mary O'Neill, tells her own story to the length of six hundred pages. There is my girlhood, the tragedy of an unwanted child; there is my marriage, the tragedy of a mariage de convenance on either side; there is my honeymoon, barren of all but tragedy; I fall in love with an erstwhile playmate, now a grown-up explorer ...

... . IT is rather hard upon the dramatic critics to invite them to investigate the conduct of characters, modern characters who take taxi-cabs, and are all Kings, Queens, Emperors, and sich. No doubt Mr. Besier, the author of Kings and Queens, knows all about the manners and customs of such exalted persons; but how are we to guess whether he portrays them correctly: even a study of the ...

... . 1. KIDER HAGGARD. (C asset I.) Had Mr. Rider Haggard's genius been com pelled to keep its native land, it would surely have found no congenial home in English town or country outside His Majesty's. Fortunately, there has been no such restriction, and its happiest ground has been Africa Africa old and new. His latest romance, , belongs to the past. Ancient Thebes and the great unmolested ...

... . By Marie Van Vorst. (Mills and Boon.) American towns, American ways, and American expressions place in what may at least be regarded as a bracing atmosphere. Should a lover meet his lady after long absence, and meet her married, Bully 1 he breathes in ecstasy. Bully the remark finds an English reader cold to the fine moment. But once hardened to the gosh and gollys and corkers, ...

... . By Roland Pbrtwbb. [John Murray.) There is something indescribably attractive about these nine incidents of Lord Louis' collecting career. There is something quite indescribably attractive about Lord Louis himself. Outside all the fun and thrill of his Transactions, if Mr. Pertwee had but achieved Lord Louis alone he would have produced a lovable work of art. The flavour of a blend of ...

... The Tale of Lai. By Raymond Paton (Chapman and Hall.) Tail Mr. Paton might have spelled it, for Lai is one of the Trafalgar Square lions one totally different, he declares, from all the others, and known by him as the pleasant- faced lion. He ought to know, for it appears that his chambers overlook Trafalgar Square, a square patch of fairyland placed within the hub and centre of the Universe ...

... . By Forrest Reid. (A mold.) The spirit of youth is abroad in this strange and rather sinister story, which reads more like a confession than a narrative. In the author's own words, that spirit, a bundle of complexities and contradictions, may be melancholy, dreamy, and passionate it is admirable and it is base it is full of curiosity it is healthy and it is morbid it is animal and it is ...