... A LITERARY LETTER New Gissing Stories. London, November 24, 1924. I think it would be very interest ing, writes Mr. Mor ley Roberts in his Private Life of Henry Maitland, if some American student of Maitland would turn over the files of The Tribune in the years 1878 and 1879 and disinter the work he did there. Maitland is, of course, George Gissing, and the re ference is to the fact that ...

... A New Novel by Mr. Arnold Palmer Introduction to the Ladies. By Arnold Palmer. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.) Before drawing the attention of our readers to this novel we ought, in fairness both to the author and to them, first to introduce the figure of Mr. Arnold Palmer himself. To the best of our knowledge he is not a famous nor even a popular novelist-- but then, have we not already enough ...

... ^^OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC jjj PATRICIA, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE attempt made in Patricia to graft a detective story on to musical comedy is not the failure it might have been, for the reason that the absurdity of the detectives themselves keeps the piece as far from becoming a crook play with music as the robbers in the pantomime keep The Babes from becoming a melodrama. Just as the ...