... . I^jr Bv GEORGE PRIMROSE. ^:Itv ANDRÉ-LOUIS MOREAU had a great sense of the theatre. Also he had a most enviable knowledge of its literature, ancient and modern, as he boasted glibly to M. Binet, the strolling player. That being so, it is just a little surprising to find André-Louis at all deceived when he stumbled upon an open-air rehearsal of M. Binet's company. He fancied himself witness ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. THE OUTSIDER: MISS DOROTHY BRANDON'S NEW PLAY. THE most enthusiastic first night I have ever had at this theatre. Thus spoke Mr. Potter, the manager of the Pleasure Gardens at Folke stone, where Miss Brandon's play, The Outsider, under the auspices of Mr. Leon M. Lion, with Miss Isobel Elsom, Mr. Leslie Faber, and Mr. Dawson Milward in the leading ...

... . . By A. j. Dawson. (Grant Richards 3s. 6d.) Dawson. (Grant Richards 3s. 6d.) A little story, but arresting. Told in Morocco by mysterious, haunted Mr. Merton. To ease his mind, Merton unfolds a strange and terrible experience. He had a friend, Critchett, an eminent man of science, who, although the best and kindest of fellows, had a forbidding scowl that alienated people generally. Worse ...

... OH, DOCTOR By Harry Leon Wilson. (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) That so genial a humorist as Mr. Harry Leon Wilson should give us a melancholy valetudinarian for a hero, and that hero an undertaker's son, may seem unpromising, but the author gets some thing out of it. Hero, poverty-stricken, had a fortune coming to him, but despaired of living to see it, so he mortgaged his prospects for an ...

... . By Robert Elston. (Hutchinson 7s. od.) All about a barrister's progress, the barrister being an Ebrew Jew, one Morris Abramson, as clever in his own line as Abe and Mawrus were in theirs. His biographer believes in Morry's abilities and says so. You will decide about that when you hear him in court, where he remains for the best part of the book. Special pleading with a vengeance. Every case ...

... . BY W. DOUGLAS NEWTON. EITHER Mr. J. B. Morton was lucky in his weather or the weather was lucky in Mr. Morton. I am not certain which, and it does not matter. I do know that as I followed the Bard and Johnny O. and Twelvetrees, and Tom Three and Streen through laughing days of hill and track, and stories over wine. which make Enchanter's Nightshade, I found the sun light even more my ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. They Also Serve How many thousands of persons, during these last weeks of perfect summer have been watching other persons play ing various ball games? Nobody but an actuary with a morbid mind would care to calculate the number. Certain purists regard this fact with severe disapproval. Drawing a deep breath, they explode the blasting phrase, Vicarious ...

... The Literary Lounger By Keble Howard The Fashion for Short Stories. Everybody seems to be publishing a volume of short stories this autumn. No sooner have we polished off, in the kindest sense, one eminent novelist than along comes another with his little bag of assorted goods. Yesterday it was Mr. Galsworthy; to-day it is Mr. Robert Hichens. And so the merry game goes on. I wonder if the ...

... . By Hilton Brown. (Allen ana unwin 7s. oa.) The author describes this as a novel without incident, and character rather than incident is the material. George Ingram (a Scot) thought he was born to rule and went into the Indian Civil Service. This pro-consul business, as George saw it, ought one day to provide a great novel. This is not that book but, as Mr. Hilton Brown knows his Scotland ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard. What is a Novel My dictionary answers the question in this way-- A fictitious prose nar- rative of considerable length, written to amuse or entertain readers, and professing to give a picture of real life. That is a very broad and generous de finition. There is one word in it, however, to which, I think, the attention of many modern novelists might duly ...

... ^The Literary Lounger By Keble Howard The Duse. Let me confess at once that I never saw Eleonora Duse. That is really a very brave confession to make, because nothing gives such a sense of superiority to certain people as having seen an actor or an actress whom other people have not seen. I remember a dear old friend of mine who always broke into any conversation about theatrical matters with ...

... THE THREE OF CLUBS. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton THE THREE OF CLUBS. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton 7S. DU.) Godfrey Cairsdale had a nice kettle of fish to fry when he was sent by the Chief of the British Diplomatic Service to unearth and, if possible, crush a huge international con spiracy known as The Three of Clubs. The object of this pleasing plot was to ...