... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Pleasures and Palaces The Passionate Adven ture Bowery Memories By 0 R. LITTLEWOOD There is one fallacy of which I am con tinually finding traces among the sort of people who talk of the cinema upon a basis of judicial ignorance. It is the idea that all cinema-theatres are alike, and that because the same film is shown the entertainment and the audience are identical. ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Faith and the Child A Boy of Flanders''' The Publicity Mind By So IR„ L1TTLEWOOD Not long ago I had reason to plead for more imagination among those who are creating with such bewildering swiftness the traditions which must influence for a time, at any rate, the art of the cinema. There is another quality which has impressed itself upon me as no less vitally necessary. ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Beauty and her Foes Raqnel Meller's Violetta A Gaiety Girl By So K. ILETTILEWOOB Often I have wondered why it is that when beauty does get itself expressed upon the screen-- and happily this is by no means a rare phenomenon-- one nearly always finds some folly or meanness or sheer stupidity going with it. Can it be the law of creation, demanding that nothing should ever ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The Romance of La Belle Pamela. London, July 28, 1924. The name, Pamela, will always have its charm. It is that of Richardson's heroine, who lives as a character in fiction above most women, even though the novel that enshrines it is not much in vogue in the circulating libraries of our day. But one of the many children who have been named after Richard son's Pamela was ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Shakspere's Portrait. London, August 4, 1924. There have now been thirty-seven volumes of Book- Prices Current. The volume for 1923 (pub lished by Elliot Stock at 32s. 6d.) has just reached me, and I understand its value to booksellers and collectors. To those who are neither, it makes entertaining reading. Few books in any library hut have duplicates ap pearing in the sale ...

... A LITERARY LETTER A Remarkable Biography. London, August 18, 1024. Dr. Addison, who since he temporarily abandoned the political arena has been living quietly in South Devon, has been writing his impressions of the war time. These will be published next month by the firm of Herbert Jenkins, in two volumes, under the title of Politics from Within. Dr. Addison's story'' closes with the ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The Yeats Family. London, August 11, 1924. I have read a hundred biographies in the various newspapers concerning the late Joseph Conrad. I think, on the whole, I like best the summary of his work contained in a leading article in The Manchester Guardian, from which I venture to preserve the following passage:-- He saw human life, on the whole, as something lofty, sombre, and ...

... A LITERARY LETTER New Novels. London, August 25, 1924. Two works of fiction which have greatly at tracted me of late have both the same idea in the back ground-- the differences of race. The one d e a Is with England and France, the other with England and India The Little French Girl and A Passage to India. Tn reading The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Constable), I am curiously ...