... 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 ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC |fjf THE FARMER'S WIFE, AT THE COURT THEATRE. THE little Court Theatre stands away in the West where the sun goes down, and theories have been advanced that this isolation from the ring of West End playhouses is the cause of its frequent change of programme. But the only theories that keep their ground in this world are those which facts cannot get at, such as that of ...

... fl f]\ y F. J.Sellieks. THE trouble between Middlesex and York shire is not yet at an end, and the issue may not be determined for some days yet. That is satisfactory as far as it goes, since there is still a possibility of a peaceful settlement, which is what all far-seeing lovers of cricket really desire. It is not right that a great game should suffer serious disturbance because here and ...

... . Charles Norman de Courcy-Parry is an ad venturer. A Cumbrian of the John Peel type, a keen huntsman, he has travelled after wild pig in Fijian forests. He has tried to trade pearls in an Arab drinking shop in New Cale donia, and finished the experiment with flashing knives and the local calaboose. From this he escaped, and crossed the island to a cargo tramp, where he had to feed inadequate ...

... . By W. Harold Thomson. (Long 7s. 6d.) An original tale of an island, not in the South Seas, but one of the Hebrides. Shelton, the millionaire, bought Lurg, and intended to have a look at it. Knowing this, a design ing lady, Mrs. Warren, with a daughter to sell, decided to pitch her tent on the island. At the same time, Carr, a bank clerk with a passion for geological research, hit on Lurg as ...

... . . By Alexandre Dumas. (Stanley Paul 2s. 6d.) (Stanley Paul 2s. 6d.) The elder Dumas had a huge fancy for this novel of his, which is not very well known to English readers. It has not hitherto been translated into English. The scene is laid in Naples during the attempted Revolution of 1798, and the plot centres upon the love affair of Luisa San Felice and Salvato Palmieri. Luisa, at first ...

... . By Jessie Champion. (Lane 7s. 6d.) Another island story, but that part doesn't last very long. There 's a wreck to begin with, and a lad and a lass cast away on the usual desert island, but blue-lagoonism gets scarcely a look in. Rescue comes along, and then the trouble and the real excite ment begin. The young man in love has, unluckily, a wife in the field already. She is an undesirable ...

... MlDSESflEB MADNETYs A.TTH LVRli. H/piessm By. JINGLE Produced July 3, 1 924 IF you will imagine a brightly-painted butterfly fluttering through a fair garden of flowers to the music of plashing fountains far and near, you will have a good idea of the lightness and beauty of this singularly pleasing pro duction. It is, to be exact, a play within a play, but it is the inside play that matters. ...

... . By T. Inman Emery. (Tarrolds: 7s. 6d.) As the Maharajah of Baragunga traversed the streets of London, he lost his tiger by robbery with violence. This theft is not so great a feat as might appear, for the tiger was not a live tiger, but a tiger cut in emerald and set in a ring. The robbery was planned by an old friend of the Maharajah's, Sir John Jervoise, formerly an official in India, who ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. c? c*f THE CREAKING CHAIR, AT THE COMEDY. IN this case a costly headgear of some lady Tut- Tut-Amen is planted on the lame hero in the creaking chair by the wife of a rival explorer in order that later on a confederate may steal it, so that not the rightful discoverer but her husband may claim the glory. Anon, the woman who sent the headgear is found ...

... . By J. C. Snaith. (Hodder and Stoughton 7s. 6d.) You cannot fail to like Mame, the American girl who tried her luck in this country, for her story is the sort of thing that just fits Mr. J. C. Snaith's hand. Incidentally, this capital novel is an addition to the fiction of Fleet Street, for Mame came in contact with a young woman of the Upper Ten who con tributes society gossip to the papers. ...

... . . By D. H. S. Nicholson. (Cobden-Sanderson 6s.) (Cobden-Sanderson 6s.) The old problem of wedlock is here dis cussed in many aspects by a group of thinking people. The book is not exactly a novel, but if it lacks narrative, it is none the less interesting and full of suggestion. The scene is laid on board a barge on the Great Central Canal, and the debaters keep their talk always high above ...