... 3/ie Romance fy ofcirnos Mi/no A page where you may read of Sir George Otto Trevelyan's unwritten memories, of Mr. William Heinemann s burned diary, and of a true last century English romance all to y ...

... Memories of the Future, edited by Ronald A. Knox, Methuen, 7s. 6d. an amusing, satirical and most clever tale of the Utopia sort, for it is supposed to be written in the year of grace 1988 by Opal, L ...

... Ponjola, by Cynthia Stockley, Constable, 7s. 6d. net a romance, with a lot of realism in it, of the early days of Rhodesia, when, apparently, it was said that Every good man in Rhodesia can mop up th ...

... The Torrent, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Fisher Unwm, 7s. 6d. a romance which this Spanish novelist, now so popular in England, lays among the orange groves of Alcira on the banks of the torrential Juc ...

... Our Elizabeth Again, by Florence A. Kilpatrick, Eveleigh Nash, 3s. 6d. net more diverting reflections by Mrs. Henry, already a favourite, on what befalls her as the head of a middle-class household, ...

... . By Sheila Kaye Smith. (Cassell 7s. 6d.) A brilliant study ol the impoverished landed gentry of to-day struggling to keep up appear ances. The Alards were, needless .to say, Sussex. Their lands were their life. For Alard old Sir John sacrificed his children. Peter, the heir, threw over the girl he loved to marry money, and came to grief. Mary married money, and came to grief in the Divorce ...

... BY MICHAEL ORME. (New Oxford.) THE novels of Robert Hichens lend themselves admirably to production on the screen. Apart from a dramatic story and vivid portraiture, his atmosphere and milieu, which the legitimate stage cannot catch, are translated in terms of photography, completing a picture at once compelling and beautiful. I have nothing but praise for this Lasky production. The ...

... . (Palace Theatre.) Those who saw the dramatised version of this successful novel were frankly dis appointed. The gaps were many and often, and if you had not previously read the book, you were left wondering. I was one of those at the time, and to satisfy my curiosity as to what constituted a best seller, I put it on my library list. I found it was much better written than I expected, and ...

... LOVE AND THE GYPSY. By IConrad Ber- covici. INash 7s. 6d.l LOVE AND THE GYPSY. By IConrad Ber- covici. (Nash 7s. 6d.) Mr. Bercovici, who found an interested public for his former book, Gypsy Blood, again writes of Rumania. He gives us tales of a vivid and passionate human nature, sudden and quick in quarrel. The strongest and most original situation is that of the duel between the aged chief ...

... %The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard J^=WU The World of Fashion. It is always refreshing to get hold of a book by Mr. Ralph Nevill. He has such a light-hearted, devil-may-care way- with him. His method is to take an enormous canvas-- in the present volume, for example, he ranges with consummate ease from 1837 to 1922-- and fill it with little figures from Mayfair, Bohemia, and foreign ...

... THE STAGE OF THE DAY. Br Ashlev Dokes. wyndham's the dancers. THIS is a good Wyndham's Theatre play. There is sentiment in it, but no sentimen tality. There is a sudden death in it, but no tragedy. There is wit and wisdom, but no comedy. There is a sort of problem, but no particular solution. The thing moves. It is fairly plausible, brisk, and at the same time sincere and likeable. I he ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. IF WINTER COMES, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. MR. A. S. M. HUTCHINSON helped on the cult of nature in art considerably by writing the novel, If Winter Comes, for he made the central figure of his work a man stripped of all the outward attributes of what we call dignity. Other authors who have de picted spirits too sensitive and con scientious for the rough traffic of ...