... BOOKS Indigestible Slices School-days, pet dogs and other tamiliar but Art-proof experiences By Ksnold Calmer IN all the arts, not to succeed in ac complishment is not to exist. In all the arts, judgment by results, and a fig for good intentions. This is the generally accepted rule, and we scarcely even ques tion it any longer. Nevertheless, I have been questioning it this week, for I have ...

... N Ourselves Rough Islanders or The Natives of England By H. W. Nevinson. (Routledge, 7s. 6d.) }F Fleet Street had to select its most distinguished and respected member, one may surmise with a fair amount of confidence that the author of this book would get the vote. There is no room here even to outline Mr. Nevinson's literary career, which extends over 35 years. But since, in some people's ...

... I T he Virgin and the Gipsy By D. H. Lawrence (Seeker, 6s.) D. H. Lawrence By Rebecca West (Seeker, 3s. 6d.) RUMOUR had it that there were some unpub ished short stories of Lawrence's yet to appear. But the definite statement, on the jacket of The Virgin and the Gipsy, that this is the last work of fiction he lived to complete disposes presumably of the hope. I looked, therefore, with ...

... Star-Dust in Hollywood. By j an and Cora Gordon. (Harrap, 12s. 6d.) THE most amusing of all the many works of these popular vaga bonds, and one of the most readable volumes ever written on the ageing theme of the celluloid world. It has only one drawback it sadly lacks an index. Well illustrated. Plato's Britannia. By Douglas Wood ruff. (Sheed Ward, 6s.) A Socratic dialogue, in eight Books, ...

... Qur Opt|OU5 (me on SMOKY CELL at Wyndharns Theatre. SMOKY Cell appears to be a name given to what people with any taste for language would call an electrocuting cham ber. It is commonly said that there is no smoke without fire. But a statement was recently published that of 370 persons tried for murder in New York during the past year not one was executed, and if this is so it is obvious ...

... The VOICE of AUTHORITY M. Poincare's Memoirs and Other Literary Matters ot the Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS It would seem that we are still in the middle of the full flood of war memoirs, but it is possible now to discern the outstanding contributions. Germany has, so far, given us nothing that is really first class. A diary intime, in view of her defeat, is hardly likely to come from any of ...

... Criticisms in Cameo By J. T. Greitt. THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS AT OLYMPIA. MR. BERTRAM MILLS, the Cochran of the equine world, is a man of unbounded horizon, of perennial enthusiasm for the world of the circus. He will travel thousands of miles to secure a turn; he will spend thousands of pounds to perfect his circus year by year. His largesse is boundless; he entertains eleven hundred people ...

... By Ralph Straus I HAVE been reading two American novels, one about a fairly typical man of colour of the labouring classes, and the other about a little clique of rich people in New York which, no doubt, would consider itself very smart indeed. And, not being an American my self, I can say that I preferred the black fellow to these very poor whites, and this in spite of the fact that his ...

... The Cinema A Mexican Fable By JAMES AGATE THE new film at the Empire purports to tell the life-history up to the date of his marriage and retirement into domes ticity of a brave and chivalrous bandit endeared to the public of Mexico by the name of Billy the Kid. Being a bit of a realist I propose to give the facts about a good-look ing, black-hearted, homicidal maniac, who never retired, never ...

... 3* The Literary Lounger, By P. Hartley. Contract Bridge. As more than one person is aware, my qualifications to write about the game of bridge are of the slightest. And even if they were more impressive than they are, I should still hesitate to let them try their paces on so formidable a quarry as Mr. Ely Culbertson. Of his Contract Bridge one can say it tunstera were to write a manual for ...

... THR EE 'E ENGLISH j E STARS by Lionel I oilier ALTHOUGH Grace Moore may not be the Swedish Nightingale in effect, she has the most pleasing singing voice I have yet heard on the screen in Jenny Lind, a sentimental romance which is now on at the Empire. This Ameri can soprano, who has long been a favourite on the New York stage, is new to us, and our first introduction in this picture is ...

... . By MICHAEL ORME. THE vehicle found for Evelyn Laye's eagerly anticipated debut in talking films takes the form of a somewhat flimsy romance, scantily interspersed with song and strengthened with slabs of un sophisticated humour. Produced by George Fitzmaurice, the picture has the surface polish that hall-marks all his work, but I missed his customary ingenuity in blending his material. For ...