... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Society and the Screen The Sins Ye Do-An English Pastoral By So Bo ILITTLEWOOD Little by little we are beginning to get for the art of the cinema something approaching a right recognition of its vitality and ever-increasing scope from intelligent well-to-do people. But the conviction is dawning upon them very slowly that anything better than the supposed trick-track of ...

... |f|l| 1 Criticisms in Cameo. j 0> V I. THE FIRST KISS, AT THE NEW OXFORD. SPAIN! Oh, the witchery of that word! A thousand pictures leap up at the touch of her Romance. Is not this the land where damsels in their graceful mantillas look love with captivating audacity, where cavaliers ride long-tailed, thick- maned steeds, and flash a sword or a word with infinite zest? Is it not the land of ...

... ^. By Keble Howard.^k The Fugger News-Letters. If you tell me that you had never previously heard of the famous Fugger family. I shall be consoled. I hereby confess, openly and without shame, that the existence of these people was entirely unknown to me until the publication of The Fugger News- Letters. And yet there they were all this time, in their handsome mausoleum, and everybody, ...

... . By E. S. Stevens. (Hurst and Blackett 7s. 6d.) The heroine was of so nice a modesty (or prudence) that she would not even kiss any man without the wedding-ring. This proved Continued overleaf. Continued, j extremely hard on a brisk young pasha of seventy winters, but the trouble did not end there, for our fair Armenian, besides beauty, had money, which was coveted by her two wicked uncles, ...

... . By Thomas Burke. (Butterworth 7s. 6d.) Mr. Burke's genius is maturing. There is a welcome mellowness about this novel in autobiographic form. T. B. follows his old fine of country (or rather, Town), but he views it with a more imaginative and less harshly realistic eye. It is the life history from early boyhood to very early manhood of a lonely East End lad a genius, groping after self- ...

... . By Anna Hurst. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) The three Michell girls, brought up to the sheltered life, had a more than usual share of family affection. Bet was so devoted to her father that her lover, Tommy Randall, realised, to his great inconvenience, that he would have to play second fiddle to papa. Now Tommy held the principles of the cave man, and it was an article of faith with him that never ...

... . . By Andrew Soutar. (Hutchinson 7s. 6d.) Soutar. (Hutchinson 7s. 6d.) A long and rather involved story about the decline of Wickerstaffe and Jolliben, country solicitors. It is with the second generation that we are here concerned. Young W. and young J. have just succeeded to the paternal practice. Benjamin Wickerstaffe loves Jo sephine Marsh (shades of Miss Alcott but, unfortunately, that ...

... . By Stefan Zweig. (Chapman and Hall 7s. 6d.) Short stories from the German. Mr. Zweig is nothing if not a plain speaker, and he aims at minute psychological analysis. He is also inclined to be rather diffuse. In Virata or, The Eyes of the Undying Brother, we have an Indian tale of a recluse who went through various stages of renunciation. He turned from force to justice, from judgment to ...

... . By Cecil Adair. (Stan ley Paul 7s. 6d.) Re-enter once more the eternal lady secre tary and the less familiar, although not new, literary ghost. Mary Grey had been secretary to the writing man, Philip Loring (deceased), whose pen-name was Hasler. Philip had been separated from his wife, and the story of that separation was told in a book in which Philip had some hand, although Mary was far ...

... v_t ^Lr Ibm jf 'Produced October 23, 1924. By JINGLE THIS famous comic opera was first produced in the year 1775, when it enjoyed a run of sixty -three nights. At that time this was considered a successful enterprise, though nowadays, of course, it would hardly pay for the gas. The original music was composed by Thomas Linley, who was Mr. Sheridan's first father-in-law, and whose music is ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Mark Twain and the Critics. London, November- 10, 1924. There are Ameri can books which seem to find a very deep echo in the hearts of English men and women. Longfel low's poems did this, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, and with quite a different public, Emerson and, later, Walt Whitman. Mark Twain was among the most read authors of my boy hood. We read him in pirated editions. The ...

... I THE f P LAY'S I theT THING Musical-Comedy Heroines And Mr. Stanley Baldwin at the Premiere of Patricia, at His Majesty's IBy HEB3LBEI&T FAIRJIEOM There was one thing about the production of Patricia, at His Majesty's a few nights ago which elevated it above the ruck of musical comedies Mr. Stanley Baldwin was present! But this was through no other reason than that one of the three authors ...