... Some New Anglo-Saxon Novels The Short Story Vogue Lending Libraries and Literature The plan of Miss Susan Ertz's new novel is simple. An ambitious New York lady persuades her husband to accept a busi ness opening in England. Very reluctantly he leaves his accustomed haunts and friends. After a year or two his wife, somewhat disil lusioned of European culture, persuades him to give up his post ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Ransacking the Ages Captain Blood More Out of Africa By So IR. LITTLEWOOD Those of us who are taking a more or less personal interest in these early and fascinating adventures of the young art of the cinema might well be pardoned for finding it hard to keep a clear course amidst the rush of ill-governed and sporadic energy apparent everywhere just now. The cinema is ...

... Americana, Young and Old A Novelist Fails at a Short Story A Volume of Short Story Masterpieces Speaking from memory, I believe that there are four or five Chester-Belloc novels in existence. Speaking from observation, I notice that-- if the catalogues of second-hand booksellers are to be trusted-- collectors attach no extrava gant value to these hooks. I am not surprised at that, for I have ...

... Travellers of All Kinds The Last of Tut-Ankh- Atnen The North Pole Old and New Stendhal was fond of saying that, in order to know a man, one must study his way of amusing himself. Hot all the authors of travel books will admit that they travel for pleasure; nevertheless, I believe that in nearly every case they do. The real differ ences are to be sought amongst the various kinds of pleasure ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Lord Curzon's Great Book on India. London, Juno 15, 1925. Who will write the authoritative biography of Lord Curzon? I have heard ominous rumours of quite the wrong people. I assume the decision rests with Lady Curzon, and I hope the choice will fall upon Mr. Harold Nicolson, who has written so well upon Byron and Tennyson, and has large Foreign Office experience to help him ...

... . si mold Palmer 071 As a rule, this page is devoted to the interests of those who look to books to enrich their lives. But such people are undoubtedly in a minority. Most men and women regard books as a distraction and a pastime, and never knowingly open a volume which calls for mental exertion on their part, How ever deplorable, this attitude may appear to the idealist, it is yet an attitude ...

... Shorter Notices of Recently Published Books War Birds, the Diary of an Unknown Young Aviator. (John Hamilton, 15s. net.)-- Imagine Miss Anita Loos in the American Air Force and masculine, writing with her consciously uncon scious revelation of a national psychology; impregnate this masculine Lorelei with Dorothy's vocabulary, set the scene in France during that portion of the War when the ...

... , by Perceval Landon. In two volumes. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. (Constable. 65s. net.; that territory of India which to-day remains an independent kingdom full of antiquities, dowered with wealth from both mine and forest, and peopled from both the Northern and Southern Asiatic civilisations, is graphically portrayed in this magnum opus by a writer who did not live to see its ...

... , bv the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, Dr. A. V. Baillie- the Rev. Edmund A. Fellowes Sydney H. Nicholson and Major F. J. Ney. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.) This is a record of the official visit to Canada of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Free Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle and the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, which took place from January 29 to March 16, 1927. The work is, ...

... The Gods of the Modern Gods The Founder of Christianity Treated by Two Modern Writers Nothing is more impressive than an apt quotation or an historical parallel. The very sight of Mr. Shaw's volume brought such a quotation to the tip of my tongue. Unfortunately, it has stayed there. Some giant of the past, whose name I forget (I think it was Macaulay) criticising another author whose name for ...

... in which the Cripples Seek to Avoid the Clumsy Sympathy of the Unwound ed and of the American Illusion Not so very long ago I said here that I read no more books about the War written by Germans; that my soul turned in loathing from the sight of German authors of War masterpieces advancing in close order, not to say mass formation. And when a bookseller told me that, oil his offering one of ...

... THE NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCE Major Verney's H.R.H. Bernard Shaw's Tomfooleries --The Sitwells Once Again It is tempting to dismiss H.R.H. as a book which will give pleasure to thousands of loyal subjects, or as a handsome volume profusely illustrated; and, with some such convenient phrase, born ages ago out of a journalist's agony, to pass on to the next. But Major Verney supports his ...