... 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 Rare Luck. Mr. Pett Ridge is one of the small but noble army of writers who persist in being cheerful despite the glittering prizes that await those who preach the gospel of hopelessness. He goes about the streets of London seeing all sorts of little things and little people to cause him quiet amusement and gentle solace, and he transfers these little ...

... A LITERARY LETTER London, Jan. 28, 1924. In what I may call a Norwich number of The Sphere, I am na turally tempted to write about the association of that fine city with books, the more particularly as I have many memories of it in my youth. But first of all I have received very opportunely a little book en titled The House of J arr old, 1823-1923. It is full of portraits of the men who have ...

... London, February 4, 1924. Mr. Max Beerbohm from his snug retreat at Rapallo-- how many of our authors enjoy these snug retreats under sunny skies!-- launches every now and again a satiric shaft against his contemporaries in England. Max, as his friends call him, must have been very young when I first met him, for I published his first drawing. At the time he was issuing little books which ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS, AT THE GARRICK. HERE'S dear Bunty again, not much altered, yet not quite the same. There was nothing obsolete in the sentiment: the paternal supremacy and the fly in the ointment of his past; the schemes and vicious wiles of the old spinster; the rebellion of Rab; the win- some ways of Biggar's first love who be- comes his last; ...

... JjMY 'I lILlr By JINGLE I ONCE read in the papers that when this play, now revived, was first produced in London a very distin guished statesman went to see it several times. I can only suppose that his discerning mind suspected a subtle associa tion between pulling the strings and wirepulling, and he was out for tips accordingly. As everyone knows by this time, the play is about humble ...

... TWAMA of fAeWEER By Mrs. CECIL CHESTERTON Miss Dorothy Massingham's adaptation of Michael Maurice's novel is not her first appearance as a playwright. She wrote The Goat, a brilliant little satire produced by one of the subscription societies, and other one-act plays are also to her credit. Not in Onr Stars, at Wyndham s Theatre, shows a knowledge of stage craft, though at times it is too ...

... A LITERARY LETTER An Entertaining Novel. London, Feb. 18, 1924.. Mr. A. G. Thornton is a journalist on the staff of The Daily Chronicle. I congratulate him on having won a £250 prize from Mr. Andrew Melrose for a novel, for I have read this novel, and think it so much better than many of the prize novels that I have been tempted to read. It is entitled An Astronomer at Large, and de scribes a ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble H Dogs. Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Richardson seems to have solved the riddle of the ideal life. He lives with, for, and (presumably) by dogs. Humans may impinge a little on his blissful state, but I gather from his book that he keeps most of them a journey away. Dogs are good enough for the gallant Colonel, and many there are who will envy his lot. Of course, he ...

... ^>The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard UULU FN Washington When they wrote a book about Chicago, we stood it very well. But one never expected a similar attack on Washington, of all places! It only remains for some novelist to depict Boston with a pen dipped in vitriol. That would finish us off at a blow. My recollection of Washington is of wide, stately streets, a small white house with a cow ...

... IayoC By JINGLE WHAT many brave, and, other wise, terribly sane men have done, and will do again, for the sake of a worthless jade, is amply recorded among the purple patches of the world's past history, which may be confidently relied upon to repeat itself in the glorious future. This play is about two soldier-men, sworn friends, who were caught in the toils of a woman of the kind known to ...

... ROLLED BY RALPH STRAUS WHAT Mr. L. G. Mainland does not know about the Zoo cannot be worth knowing. He seems to be persona grata with both the beasts and (even more important) their keepers. You imagine him stealing in after hours, and holding a sort of court, with walruses and monkeys and a lion or two and the kinkajou in attendance. You might not think it, but all sorts of dramatic affairs ...