... 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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... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... THINGS NEW AT THE THEATRES. THE St. James's Theatre must have been rather surprised when asked to welcome Valentine, a new romantic comic opera, for I do not think the memory of living dramatic critic runs to the time when a work of this kind was presented at the theatre so long associated with Sir George Alexander. And why comedy opera?-- a description obviously bad as grammar, of a ...

... The Way Out. By Mrs. Hbnry Dudbxhy. (.1 fethuen.) Mrs. Dudeney allows herself more than one anomaly in her clever story of criminal egotism. The most remarkable is the love of the artist Buttifant for Jane-- Jane, so plebeian, so grating, so good! His boastful, crude, and precious Jane! Yes, it is the lover himself appraising Jane-- appearing Jane, dead! tn the old chambers in Gray's Inn ...

... By Rudyard Kipling. Macmillan The tact of the curate to his bishop on the subject of his breakfast egg is staler than any egg yet sampled, but it is hard to bury decently. The round world itself is so like that egg, and all that therein is-- including A Diversity of Creatures! Though, indeed, one strams after a more generous estimate than good when remembering such a story as Friendly ...

... . ALSACE, unfortunately, is not a great play, but it has been very well boomed by being banned, possesses substantial merit, and is furiously topical; the style and dignity which mark La Kommandatur are not to be found in it, but most of our public will not miss them, whilst it has plenty of broad obvious humours, and some thrilling moments. The Germans of Alsace are not so outrageously ...