... Criticisms in Cameo. PAVLOVA AT COVENT GARDEN. SHE blew on to the vast stage like a bit of down floating on a summer wind. How can I explain the welcome, the enthusiasm, the thunderous applause of greeting? Was it the enchantment of memory or the delicious thrill of anticipation? It was both, and yet more, it was the outburst of sudden joy that springs when Beauty teases us out of Care and ...

... |jlt i Criticisms in Cameo. |i|pjj r 0 I. POPPY, AT THE GAIETY. A TRICKY tune or two, a jolly dance or two, a love-story and a laugh or two, and you have my summary of this latest American importa tion, Poppy. The plot is the old one re-dished, tears and orange-blossoms all arranged in mid- Victorian settings for the convenient display of pretty artificial scenes and dresses. Is there no ...

... J >. By Keble Howard Something Childish. Katherine Mansfield, of course, had great gifts of observation and literary expression, but I am not sure that the methods employed to bring her work to the notice of the more sensitive class of reader, although excellently meant, are quite the best for her reputation. Reading this collection of short pieces, with the rather misleading title of Some ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Reality and Romance The Royal Rivals Constance Talmadge, Rebel By Ro ILSTTILEWOOO One delight of watching the progress that the art of the cinema is making almost daily during this its vigorous youth is to notice the way it is rushing through old conventions in the meshes of which the flesh-and-blood drama is still helplessly captive. We have already seen the movies ...

... >The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard l =^3 A Pilgrim in Spain. George Borrow, you will remember, declared that the happiest years of his life were passed in Spain. Spain, he declared, was the most magnificent country in the world, probably the most fertile, and cer tainly possessed the finest climate. Borrow was not certain, however, whether the children of Spain were worthy of their mother ...

... . By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds. (Hodder and Stough- ton 7s. 6d.) Colonel Carfrae Caron, widower, came home from India on the same boat with Mrs. Rita Knight, widow, who failed to entrap him. Later, at her house in the Lake District, Mrs. Knight caught Carfrae kissing, in a moment of justifiable emotion, her hoyden ugly duckling of a nineteen-year- old daughter, Valery, who awoke at the chaste ...

... . By Edmund Downey. (The Bodley Head 6s.) Tom Morrissey is a character worth meet ing. He is an odd fellow who lives in an Irish seaside town, Rockhaven. Mr. Downey has persuaded him to talk, and to some purpose. Tom is full of yarns about the people he knows, and he tells his stories in an odd sideways, rambling fashion that is very attractive. In fact, the telling is some times more than the ...

... . rHE ODD MAN OUT. By Madge S. Thompson. (Ouselev ss.) Thompson. (Ouseley 5s.) Ralph Lorrimer was odd man out in a triangle consisting of Nell Harcourt, Dick Bathurst, and himself. There 's a love in terest, and a villain, Captain Marchmont, who has stepped out of old-fashioned melo drama. To this add an intemperate lady, who is the vicar's wife, no less, and there is a play fitted. Not a very ...

... . By Arthur J. Rees. (John Lane; 7s. 6d.) A weird story of which the scene is laid in the neighbourhood of Chanctonbury Ring. Queer things happen at Mouldering House, with which the House of Hilmerceux and its mistress, Lady Hilmerceux, are insep arably linked. Mystery thickens about Harry Vivian, returned from foreign travel, and Ailsa Rose, who enter the Hilmerceux circle. The time is the ...

... . By Catherine Clark. (Hurst and Blackett 7s. 6d.) The Rev. John Carthew preached about celibacy monking and nunning a flippant hearer called it with queer results. He for sook his principles and married Diana An- struther. Thereafter he returned to the practice of celibacy and Diana fell into the arms of Tommy Carteret, an old admirer. A little later Diana made a confession that naturally ...

... . . By Douglas Goldring. (Long 3s. 6d.) A new edition of Mr. Goldring's light and amusing story about Margaret Carter, the daughter of a Montreal grocer. The heroine came to London as Margot Cartier, and pushed her way into Society. Good pictures of certain circles and manners. ...

... . Continued.] . By Cicely Farmer. (Hutchinson 7s. 6d.) Rachel Darney was a Georgian. She knew all about life, and insisted that the bowdlerised edition of the marriage ser vice should be used at her wedding to Vincent Armstrong. The wedding wasn't very happy, for Vincent was a stiff sort of fellow. Still, he, too, may have had something to put up with. At any rate, he did not seek comfort ...