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... . 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 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 ...

... . IN The Saving Grace, presented at the Garrick Theatre, Mr. Haddon Chambers has written a comedy which, whilst it touches upon present circumstances, is not exactly a war play, but an agreeable combination of hamour and sentiment, containing some skilfully drawn acting parts. Its basis is one of the minor trag edies of the war-- brought at the end to a happy conclusion. Blinn Corbett, a ...

... House-Mates. By J, D. Beresforo. Cassel House-Mates is quite a charming example of the auto biographical type of story. A young architect, sprung from T I lei L U 1 Lid I HI ^1 UUI1U) ct piU\ HlLldl ICLID1 pictlllo himself in a shady not to say scandalous-- Blooms- bury lodging-house. For a year he learned there of life, learned to shed his class prejudices, found his own particular mate, ...

... THINGS THREE plays of the week have been studies of women-- very different women. One was La Parisienne, presented by Le Théâtre des Alliés at the Garrick. Henry Becque's quite famous comedy, now a little more than thirty years old, if a trifle antique in technique, is a fine study of the woman of the senses. Clotilde, the heroine, is simply an intelligent animal, like a Hun, who does not ...

... o THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH^ c a/jy By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK. OUR best novelists seem determined to be poets as well, and I doubt whether it can be done to any satisfactory extent. No author has yet achieved greatness in both arts, and the old proverb about the two stools is still true. Galsworthy, Phill- potts, Zangwill, Oxenham, and the rest may urge that Dickens, Thackeray, and Smollett used ...

... . By Fyodor Dostokvsky Heinemann If the three sisters who cook spells by the wayside for Macbeth and other fate-driven men received an urgent call elsewhere, and were thus obliged to leave their charmed pot to the care of a mere mortal, thev would naturally look for a man of imagination by choice a literary man, a poet, as likely to be most impressive if it came to an affair of incantation. ...

... Tales of the Revolution. By Michael Artzibaslee {Martin Seeker.) Not this revolution, of course; but, as Russia has been revoluting on similar lines to these tales time out of mind, they doubtless do help to fill in the picture. Rebellion and revolt are the watch-words of all these unhappy people. 1 heir grounds of complaint seem endless: to work is bad, to be out of work is worse life is ...

... . By Muriel Hine. John La tig.) sees the second blooming of a woman not very happily married, who, receiving the handsome gift of a country house and /400 income for upkeep, uses the opportunity to settle there grass-widow-wise, and, of course, lights upon the love of her life. It is a long and not very thrilling story. Deirdre's loves and difficulties are complicated by a young girl, the ...

... Members of the theatrical profession will learn with deep regret of the death, at his residence, Woodville, Golder's Green Road, Hendon, N., early on May 4, after a lingering illness patiently endured, of Mr. James Ryder or, as he was known on the stage, Henry Dallas. Members of the theatrical profession will learn with deep regret of the death, at his residence, Woodville, Golder's Green Road ...