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THE PASSIONATE QUEST. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. (Hodder and Stough

... THE PASSIONATE QUEST. By E. Phil lips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stough- THE PASSIONATE QUEST. By E. Phil lips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stough ton 7s. 6d.) Mr. Oppenheim has the knack of making his stories go. They may not be very great fiction, but they carry the reader along, and the fortunes of Benjamin Stone, millionaire boot-manufacturer, of Norchester, and his three wards, Matthew, Philip, and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: Page 66 | Tags: Review 

A Bystander among the BOOKS

... -s5 A Bystander1 among' the BOOKS By RALPH STRAUS PEOPLE, I dare say, are still declaring that they wish to forget the War, although the success of a recent play which treats of nothing else suggests that any such desire is on the wane. In any case, there has just been published a picture of modern warfare as it was in Flanders and France, which comes as near to the real thing as you are ...

A STRONG MAN ARMED. By BARTON SHAW. (Stanley Paul; 7s. 6d.)

... A STRONG MAN ARMED. By Barton Shaw. (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.) A STRONG MAN ARMED. By Barton Shaw. (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.) Here is a really engrossing ana well- managed historical novel, staged on a scene that is always romantic Florence of the sixteenth century. The story is woven round the famous condottiere captain, John of the Black Bands, a son of the House of Medici. It is a picturesque, ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: Page 66 | Tags: Review 

THE SANDS OF ONO. By BEATRICE GRIMSHAW. (Hurst and Blackett; 7s. 6d.)

... THE SANDS OF ONO. By Beatrice Grimshaw. (Hurst and Blackett 7s. 6d.) THE SANDS OF ONO. By Beatrice Grimshaw. (Hurst and Blackett 7s. 6d.) Stacy Rowan (looks like a man's name, but is really a girl's) went from Sydney to New Guinea to be married to Charlie Holli- day, a resident magistrate. But Charlie was a bad egg all round lazy, drunken, and suspected of smuggling -not spirits, but birds of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: Page 66 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Remarkable Biography

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3210 | Page: Page 12, 32 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

THE THREE OF CLUBS. By VALENTINE WILLIAM. (Hodder and Stoughton

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: Page 66 | Tags: Review 

THE ART OF THE CINEMA: Pleasures and Palaces--The Passionate Adventure--Bowery Memories

... 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. ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2468 | Page: Page 34, 36 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: TIGER CATS, AT THE GARRICK

... Criticisms in Cameo. i. TIGER CATS, AT THE GARRICK. KEATS and Kipling both sang of the glamour of sex and the tragic folly of man, and the life- stories of such as Baudelaire, Maupassant, and Strind berg reveal the truth that Lilith does exist not only in the pages of literature, but in the world. The bold and valid genius of Balzac lavished all its splendour in the creation of such ...

'The Literary Lounger: Murder and Lawn-Tennis

... 5s 'The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard Murder and Lawn-Tennis. I should imagine that Mr. Robert Hichens, having written the final words of his new novel, After the Verdict, sat back in his chair, heaved a deep sigh of relief-- all authors do that on finishing a new book-- and said to the vast pile of manuscript in front of him: Well, if that won't do for them, I give it up. At a rough ...

HUSBAND LOVE

... . By Guy Newall. (Constable 6s.) It is always pleasant to be able to say a good word for a first novel, and Guy Newall's work arouses interest for other reasons than that. As a star of the movies, he is already known to the public but there is nothing of flash film stuff in this charming cobweb, which blends realism and fairy fantasy with allegory. It is the story of a married couple, the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: Page 66, 68 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MIDSUMMER MADNESS, AT THE HAMMERSMITH LYRIC

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC 11 MIDSUMMER MADNESS, AT THE HAMMERSMITH LYRIC. HOWEVER, much the productions at the Hammersmith Lyric have been over praised (and nothing wins like success, nor does anything else obtain such exaggerated adula tion), it must be admitted that it. is the home of high emprise. Nowhere else in London would capital have been sunk on Abra ham Lincoln, The Beggar's Opera, ...