... . . By V. Sackville West. (The Hogarth Press 4s. 6d.) This, probably the shortest novel of the autumn season (74 pages), like Master Bill Primrose's song of the Mad Dog, cannot hold you long in the reading, but you won't get it out of your thoughts easily, for all that. In one way it will hold you long enough, for it is a condensed horror, the offspring of that phase of the author's talent ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Ransacking the Ages Captain Blood More Out of Africa By So IR. LITTLEWOOD Those of us who are taking a more or less personal interest in these early and fascinating adventures of the young art of the cinema might well be pardoned for finding it hard to keep a clear course amidst the rush of ill-governed and sporadic energy apparent everywhere just now. The cinema is ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. ORANGE BLOSSOM, AT THE QUEEN'S. ORANGE blossoms grown in Southern France are delicate burgeons and apt to become frost bitten when transferred to other climes. That is what happened to a pretty little French play, which, save for a few scenes in the second act, became wearisome in English. For one thing, because the adaptation by Mr. Harry Graham is ...

... TUSTICE WALK. Bv Constance Smedley (Allen and Unwi-n 7s. 6d.) A pleasing tale of new Chelsea. Imagine a clerk, and a Quaker at that, rejoicing in the name of Pumphrey and taking a lodging in the reputed most madcap quarter of London. He might, of course, have gone his quiet way there in the most aloof and Quakerish virtue, without encountering shocks, but his creator has taken care to ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard.^ The Story of Broadcasting. It is all very well for Mr. Burrows, Assistant Con troller and Director of Programmes of the British Broadcasting Com pany, to write in this light-hearted way of the latest and greatest marvel of science-- The first essential for wireless telephony is a constant wave ripple across the ether of space not a lesiurely affair, ...

... . . By Ethel M. Dell. (Hutchinson 7s. 6d.) Buck, the leading young man, was slow to realise his luck in love, but then, he would hardly be an Ethel M. lover if he didn't. His way to Paradise with Jean- nette Wyngold was of the right thorny kind. Jeannette was first very affluent, then very poor, and tried many ways of making a living. When she came down (or up) to the stage, Buck followed her ...

... A LITERARY LETTER CHRISTMAS BOOKS. London, December 1, 1924. I have been asked to write something about books for Christmas presents this week. There should not be such things as books for Christmas presents. The term is really an abomination. A book is either a good book or a bad book. It is either going to give joy to some one person, or it is not. Books, as as has often been said, are like ...

... -xS A Bystander1 among the BOOKS By RALPH STRAUS I HAVE always thought that Beau Brummell was one of the most picturesque figures who ever passed comet-wise over London society. By the sheer force of his own personality, this brilliant son of a man who started life as a servant attained a position which can only be compared to that which the most popular blood at a public school has thrust ...

... THEATRE a CABARET BY THE BYSTANDER ABOUT TOWN A DISCUSSION of a distinctly acri monious nature has been raging lately between the theatre proprietor and the cabaret producer. They have not got together across a table and had it out. man to man, as it were. Nothing like that. Some man behind the throne of a theatre or two has given an imaginative pressman an interview or two and the cabaret ...

... HOW the CINEMA CAMERA RECORDS the IMPOSSIBLE. The Manner in which the Stunt Photographer Manipulates his Machine and his Films B^ EESILEE EVELE2GH Mr. Leslie Eveleiglt is one of the foremost cameramen in the British film industry of to-day. Recently he lectured before the Royal Photographic Society on Trick Photography and in the article below he has briefly recapitulated some of the ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. r e i. THE RUSSIAN BALLET, AT THE COLISEUM. THEY say we are not an artistic people. They say we have no soul above business and no eye except for machines. Yet there was not an empty seat and not one phlegmatic spectator. We had all come to watch the ballet, to look again on M. Diaghilev's creation, to revive afresh the memories, four years old, when last he and his ...

... . Bv Vivian Crockett (Cape: 7s. 6d.l Another novel of the ancient world. It is a hot, feverish story, but not more lurid than the heroine was in real life. The narrative, really well managed, both as regards setting and atmosphere, shows us the beginnings of the shameless Empress's mania in her initiation, as a mere girl, into the mysteries of the grove of Daphne at Antiocli. After that, the ...