... L I LE AVESofTESTERDAY kA A ^oofoPaqe for Tomorrow^! Was Marshal von Hindenburg a mere War Figurehead, like his Wooden Statue, or a Great Commander Some Answer to That is Found in his Personal Memoirs ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JOHNNY JONES, AT THE ALHAMBRA THEATRE. MR. GEORGE ROBEY as a naughty boy caught the fancy of the town when The Bing Boys was brought out at the Alhambra, and the attraction has to an extent continued to the present time. Although already so well known on other stages, he was a new personality in West End revue, and as he came at a time when the Alhambra had been ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE VILLA ROSE, AT THE STRAND THEATRE. IT is a great tribute to the purity and innocence of our dramatists that they seem to know nothing about professional criminals, who are always, in their plays, represented as being caught out first ball from a wretched stroke. Mr. A. E. W. Mason, the author of At the Villa Rose, has been a legislator in his time, yet we never ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, AT THE GLOBE THEATRE. NO farce that ever was written was less life like than this fantasy of Dumas père (adapted by Sydney Grundy), but where as a farce fulfils its mission by making the spectator laugh, a comedy which is false and which yet often aims at appealing to the serious emotions fulfils no mission-- as a play-- at all. As a set of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC THE YOUNG VISITERS, AT THE COURT THEATRE. IT is a curious thing that novelists should have acquired a special prerogative of telling lies without losing their characters. But I suppose other people do not get the same chance. A musician would find it extremely diffi cult to tell a lie in music, and harder still to profit by it. An artist could not paint The Blue Grass of ...

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... FROM THE READERS POINT OF VIEW. By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON. ...

... a 1FrOMTHE READER'S POINT OF VIEW. nj r\ .-i By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON. I COULD scarcely finish Limbo for. the excitement it stirred in me. It is the sort of book that shatters my sense of neutrality and turns me into an active benevolent. I want to attack all my friends with it in my hand, so that they shall not miss a delightful moment of it. It is a book of short stories written by Mr. Aldous ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Wordsworth and the Cinema* London, March 29, 1920. Mr. R. Cobden-Sanderson, who bears a name honoured among those who love fine typography, has commenced business as a pub lisher. One of his first books-- and it interests me greatly-- is a well-printed edition of some of Wordsworth's poems under the title of Words worth: An Anthology. I am particularly in terested because I ...

... A I I T C D A'D V I 17 T TP J17 D Studies in the Career of a LI 1 LKAK I L.L.1 1H.K Famous Actor. Somewhere in Devonshire, October 6, 1920. What a wonderful time he or she has-- what a jolly career is that of the popular actor or actress. Then how speedily is he or she forgotten. Even the politician has no such universal recognition. If half his country loves him, the other half hates. It is ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Books for Christmas Presents. London. November 15, 1920. In one aspect at least the war is over-- the business of bookselling and publishing goes along bravely. Never, surely, were there more good books than have been published this season. Novels have come out by the score. Their price is higher than hitherto, but apparently the public pays cheerfully-- at least, it pays ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Here Lies Oliver Goldsmith. London, August 23, 1920. I spent a few minutes to-day at a tomb near by the Temple Church with the in scription, Here lies Oliver Goldsmith. A very neglected tombstone it is. It does not seem to have been cleaned for years. Perhaps it does not matter, for Goldsmith does not actually lie on that spot. The ashes of the man whose literary effort ...