... BY JINGLE. THIS Fantastical Farce, as it is called, is a tremen dously energetic affair. And there are moments when humorous situations are taken so seriously by their exponents that they would do duty very well for plain unvarnished tragedy. A learned professor return ing from his African travels has brought with him three large-sized idols, the gods of a savage tribe. The precious ...

... 1 Mtoffl CM v f Ks*tMW m ^so&?aasr ^tiki Jo M%) f?P THE ORDINARY ftgfj mm^4' MAN'S MUSIC PEOPLE are always- asking me what is wrong with English music, and I have always answered that there is nothing at all wrong with the best English music. except the difficulty of hearing it. Vaughan- Williams, Delius, Bax, Elgar, and one or two others in lesser degree are composers at least as interesting ...

... 1 Books of the Week 1 g RUSSIAN COURT MEMOIRS |g iEEEmESSBEEESSEmEEESEEEEiBQ The Revolution in Russia SOMETIMES publishers are inordinately lucky. Some times, but not often, they will be willing to admit so much. It may be only another of those curious rumours on which we thrive to-day that Mr. Herbert Jenkins arranged the Russian Revolution as an advertisement for his anonymously issued ...

... With the vast exception of Mark Twain and perhaps, in the past, of Bret Harte and the author of Elbow Room, few of the really amusing writers of the United States take a firm hold here. The reading world in general does not know the incomparable George Ade, whose Fables in Slang delighted our youth, nor is, I fancy, the work of the late 0. ITenry a household word. But Messrs. Hodder and ...

... A NOVEL AND SOME SPEECHES lEmEEEEEEMMESSaiaSffiSfflli Autumn n-jn WHEN a nice woman leaves her selfish husband and goes to live in a country cottage you expect interesting velopments, particularly when the nice woman happens to be the heroine of a novel by Mrs. Coxon (Muriel Hine). The heroine of Autumn (Lane 6s.) can hardly be blamed for the tragic little adventure that followed on her ...

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... U The Menu H □i Q LIGHT DISHES FOR WARM WEATHER n Tomato Beignets This dish can be made with tinned tomatoes, as fresh ones are so very expensive. Open a tin of tomatoes and place them in halves in a deep dish. Pour over sufficient oil to cover, and add a good squeeze of lemon-juice, Tarragon vinegar, salt, pepper, and a little chopped parsley. Let stand for an hour, then take up and drain the ...

... t Books of the Week A YOUNG MAN'S MEMOIRS _j v Young Reminiscences I YOU may pos sibly take up a recently published book called The End of a Chapter (Constable: 5s. net) and glance at a few pages here and there and decide to read it through. Being, may be, ignorant of the author's name, Shane Leslie, you may determine in your own mind that here is another book of memories by a cheerful octo ...

... The Menu Economical Puddings A Steamed Padding Beat 2 oz. of butter to a cream and stir into it 2 oz. of castor sugar; when well beaten together, mix with a ¼ lb. of flour and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat one egg thoroughly and mix with three tablespoonfuls of milk. Get a buttered basin, put one tablespoonful of jam mixed with a little water, and pour the other ingredients into it. ...

... Books of the Week An Indian Novel AT all times India is a mysterious place, but during the present war, when Indian soldiers have been taken over to France without losing caste, and German agents have seized the opportunity of telling the natives how thoroughly London has been destroyed, things seem to have become more mysterious than ever. Penny's new novel Love by an Indian So in Mrs. a. ...

... Books of the Week A NOVEL AND SOME REMINISCENCES j k_ Views I IN peace days, particularly at this time of the year, it used to be the fashion for the newspapers to start a silly season discussion about any amount of silly subjects. One of them, of course, was the sea-serpent (who knows, by the way, whether our old friend was not a Hun submarine in disguise and another used to be the ...

... Likes and dislikes are not always easily accounted for. In the case of our likes, in particular, some of us are quite content to like without inquiring why. But not all. For the pleasure of liking is really much enhanced by the knowledge that one's penchant say, for instance, for a picture can be translated into words. We all love our Bairnsfather. He has become an institution whether or no we ...