... eight, and husband not in before ten minutes to. Item, cigarette smoking in bed holes burned in the best linen sheets, not to speak of risks of fire and Patricia did not mention the fire, but nagged about the holes. Don't we all know it And yet it is only ...

... was the very man to discard a worthless wife and adopt a harassed young man and his wife and family, all in a breath, so to speak. He accomplished the extraordinarily difficult feat of being a benefactor without disturb ing the self-respect or the self-help ...

... that its votaries are consumed before one's eyes. Miss Duke is too fine an artist to be didactic the logic of Tales of Hate speaks for itself. The book cannot fail to confirm the impression given by her earlier work that in her we have a writer of uncommon ...

... fashion. The only unreal thing in the book is the letter frcim Jason's Australian (and unofficial) wife. Australians do not speak of ranches, nor say I guess. In every other respect the actuality of A Good Woman holds good. NOVEL NOTES. ...

... Franklin Dvall), who is out after the Bonds to Bearer, though he is, of course, too polite to mention the fact all at once. He speaks of them as scientific papers of no commercial value, for which he would like to search if Captain Winsford hnc n n nhiprMnn ...

... to raise the question Is this a hoax or a mysti fication One could have sworn to their identities. But of Chevalier I would speak in particular. He has a song, 44 Valentine, that all Paris is still humming. It is a piquant little song, a truly naughty ...

... attempt. Take a look at the latest of these. It is called The Ver dict of Bridlegoose (Cape 18s. net), and, superficially speak ing, ;t is a plain account of things seen, and people met, bv the author in the United States. But it is so much more than ...

... go by. Spring's in the air, though not exactly in the cold, unpleasant one we breathe. it s in the mental atmosphere. so to speak, in the stuff that dreams are made of, which dreams will later on turn into the great new idea of the season. Every Spring ...

... for the good. Whether line, has the right kind o. rhythmic swing about it or not, it is spoken as a norma human being would speak it, and not as if mouthed by an Infant Roscius. One line in particular I always look out for in this play. It is where Macduff ...

... guessed as much. The men who throw off thunderous questions like this are generally pessimists. When Commander Ken worthy speaks ot civilisation crashing he has in mind another world war. Mr. H. It. Wells, who supports the author with an introduction ...

... but, on' the whole, there was little tension in the play, and what there was of it was as theatrical as the characters. Speaking of these, why is a financier in drawing-room plays generally an Oriental, base, half- bred, and unclean in business It is ...

... like England, with all his faults. This latest farce of Mr. Lonsdale's, by the simple de c vice of omitting any action to speak of from it, exploits to the full its author's ability to toss the epigrammatic ball about the field of play for hours at a ...