... something fascinating in itself. ims is where the Lourt theatre production fails. When Mr. Alfred Clark steps upon the stage and speaks his first line, you know that the performance cannot satisfy your Mjsnes. ior nere is no ripe, meiiow, intellectual, unscrupulous ...

... though Venus is a good second, and there must be a score of books which ambitiously take you the whole round tour, so to speak, ending up, as often as not, in the sun. But Mr. David Lindsay, in his amazing romance, A Voyage to A returns (Methuen :V 8s ...

... everyday talk is astonishing, while his invention is so^ lively that, though you may think you know all the possible ways of speaking a familiar line, he is sure to surprise you with a new one, and a satisfactory one at that. Mr. Man ning's Stephano attempts ...

... He talks taffy by the yard till she is only too eager to own him as her lord, and to permit him to imprint a chaste kiss, speaking romantically, of course, upon her ruby lips. If swift love-making of this sort is a faithful reproduction of the ways of ...

... attractive, he sits be side her at once and praises the dazzling beauty of her eyes, evidently to her satis faction and when you speak to a lad)' in glowing terms about the rare splen dour of her shimmer ing eyes, and she becomes an appre ciative listener, the ...

... nomenclature in ornithology and the splitting of species, he risks being blandly referred to as a Victorian back-number and speaks with no uncertain voice. He shows with unanswerable force the hopeless muddle to which the science of naming has been reduced ...

... have to tolerate his lesser advocacy of marriage-breaking does more drastic violence to public feeling than did his plainer speaking 011 religion. In spite of this, however, his defence of free love is confined to one speech made by a man who himself had ...

... other he has read this year he may run the risk of being thought to be rolling his log with too clumsy an action. Senously speaking, however, Mr. Thomas Burke's short stories, Whispering Windows (Grant Richards 8s. 6 d. net), are mightily good. To write ...

... He travelled hither and thither, and received much kindness, and, what is of greater importance to his readers, much plain speaking. His book is straightforward and suggestive. He is no armchair statesman with a cut- and dried scheme which cannot fail; ...

... and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire. It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth to mouths like mine at least. ()ne Elenor Murray is found dead, and the poet writes as follows I have made a book ...

... that I heard of th? absorption of The Athenceum in a much younger paper, The Nation. I was brought up on The Athenceum, so to speak one looked upon it as a kind of oracle in the days when Sir Charles Dilke was the proprietor and Mr. Norman MacColl was the ...

... that he has in his posses sion and wants to sell a newly-discovered portrait of George Eliot. But I leave Mr. Williams to speak for himself A new portrai t of George Eliot (or, as she was then, Mary Ann Evans) has just come to light. It is a very attractive ...