... *5The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard.^ 4f'- The Length of Novels. I have made a discovery with regard to the length of modern novels which will probably-- or shall we be modest and say possibly?-- make even greater fortunes for our authors and publishers, and prove an inestimable boon to the reading public. My discovery is this. Whilst analytical or psychological novels the kind of novel ...

... . . By Madeleine Linford. (Parsons 7s. 6d.) (Parsons 7s. 6d.) Miss Linford takes her title from a phrase of Stevenson's, where he speaks about the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. Sylvia Spring told Audrey Deane, the heroine, that the job they were both engaged on at the moment, the Help to Poland Mission, was like that. Life is really a road that goes on, and we have stopped ...

... . By A. G. Hales. (Long 7s. 6d.) Oh, what a tale of wickedness, and of occultism good and bad Was there ever such a thorough bad man as Carl Strang of Yale, son of a profligate preacher He takes first to the stage, then to the worst sort of occultism, and after queer dealings with the Chink, Wo-Sing, acquires a triple [Continued overleaf. Continued personality his own, Wo-Sing's, and that of a ...

... . By Peter Gladwyn. (Long 7s. 6d.) The three Monson girls were fortunate, but puzzled. When money, and a good bit ■of it too, came to them out of the blue, they knew nothing of who had sent it, beyond their benefactor's mere name, Cleave Hollesby. Such a plum of mystery couldn't go un disputed, and up came the Countess of Cavalcanti to claim her share in the plunder. As you will have guessed, ...

... . By Helen Proxhero Lewis. son 7s. 6d.) (Hutchin- Welsh, of course the heroine's Celtic name tells you that and there is abundance of odd Welsh manners in the humbler charac ters. The final joke, however, is lost to those who have no Cymric, for it is left untranslated, for which one can hardly forgive the author. Still, she provides enough sensation to condone the loss of the possible last ...

... AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA. BY MICHAEL ORME. WHITE SLIPPERS. (Stoll.) THE private view at the Palace of this new British production moved a crowded theatre to enthusiasm. It is a Stevensonian yarn adapted from the story of Charlton Law rence Edholm, brimful of ad venture and haloed with a charming romance. Mr. Mathe- son Lang is never so happy as when he is playing the rover or the buccaneer, ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. i. MR. FRANK TINNEY, AT THE EMPIRE. THERE is only one word for it-- genius. Mr. Tinney's art defies analysis. You laugh from the moment he appears until the end of his turn, and you laugh again at every recollection of him. Yet you cannot say what It is that tickles your sides. It isn't his costume, though you always picture him in his scarlet tunic with gold epaulettes. ...