... By E. P. LEIGH BENNETT who Elates that for England the Rugby season has proved one of the most successful periods in the history of the game. AT the end of last season, and ...

... f7he Winter in Books BY JAMES MILNE The One touch of Nature' which makes the whole world kin, as we find it in Mr. Hugh Walpole's new novel and in the new critical biography of Robert Louis Stevenso ...

... . By Helen de Courcy Wilson. (Sampson, Low 7s. 6d.l . By Helen de Courcy Wilson. (Sampson, Low 7s. 6d.) An old situation to begin with. Jessica married out of hard necessity in order that her child should not come into the world nameless. The man who married in ignor ance of the reason separated from his wife for twenty years, and then, when they met again, he found that he loved her. This is ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. i. LORD O* CREATION, AT THE SAVOY. WITH a pal, on a cruise, he came to Scotland; he saw a bonnie lass, and married her. For sixteen happy years they lived together; and if he was not often at home-- for he had a job in the mer cantile marine that called him often to England-- love remained strong and there were three bairns in token of it. In reality, and in spite of his ...

... -The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard .-f Hobbs. Whenever Hobbs walks out from the pavilion to take his knock at the wicket, I overhear the same remark from everybody in my neighbour hood; and it is this: Well, there goes the finest batsman in the world. He has never been top of the batting averages, yet it is never disputed that he is the finest batsman in the world. A proud achievement, ...

... . . By V. Sackville West. (The Hogarth Press 4s. 6d.) This, probably the shortest novel of the autumn season (74 pages), like Master Bill Primrose's song of the Mad Dog, cannot hold you long in the reading, but you won't get it out of your thoughts easily, for all that. In one way it will hold you long enough, for it is a condensed horror, the offspring of that phase of the author's talent ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC H IN THE SNARE, AT THE SAVOY THEATRE. THIS is a tale of the Peninsular War, with Wellington an a' in it. In such dramas the women never get a fair chance, for the men are always sending or receiving despatches, girding on their swords, and saying to their wives, daughters and lovers: You must excuse me now, Ethel, just when an interesting domestic passage is being ...

... //Jj=r Produced June 26, 1924 By JINGLE WOMEN are Cats. I hasten to protest that this is not my own statement, and I do not necessarily subscribe to it. It is M. André Chaumont, the hero of this play, who comes to that disastrous conclusion, arguing rather dangerously from the particular to the general. Besides, as every body knows, cats have kittens, and it would appear that nowadays ...

... . . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . . By Charles Brunton Knight. (Long 7s. 6d.', Brunton Knight. (Long; 7s. 6d.', Those who like a historical novel on the good old lines will find Mr. Knight's story of Wolsey very much to their mind. It is sound stuff and entertaining reading. Of course, liberties are taken with facts, but that is all in the day's work, and it is no undue license to suppose that an effort was made by Wolsey's ...

... . By George Bronson Howard. (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.) . By George Bronson Howard. (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.) There must be a boom in naughty clerics. Here is another a cleric, however, only in name and dress. Really and truly, this apparent parson was the head of an elaborate organisation in New York-- a criminal or ganisation for the wider distribution of opium. It was known as the Crime Trust, and ...