... An Outstanding Wartime Work -By Vernon Fane A Great Travel by Maurice Hindus Tragedy on the Farm Stephen Lister's Cafe Society A Chronicle of Chinese Life IN spite of the fuss that was made of Ernest Heming way's last novel, I doubt whether a work of fiction with any lasting value has been pro duced during the past three years. Contemporary literature has not been enriched by any thing during ...

... Cavalcade of Mystery (Aldwych) By Herbert Farjeon As a critic of magic I can boast no great pretensions. I must, in fact, confess myself in this respect a simpleton and a booby, my education as to goldfish, rabbits and vanishing ladies having been sadly neglected. For though my parents took me regularly to see Henry Irving and Ada Rehan and Charles Wyndham and Johnnie Toole from the age of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IF a novel is to be of one tenor, one mood, all the way through, I would rather it were grave than gay. Better still, let the elements be mixed, as they are in the work of the great Victorian novelists and as they are in life. Nearly all art; except music, abhors a change of mood, which may so easily destroy the unity on which its final effect depends it tends to prefer ...

... o . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ONE of the most strongly marked traits of the typical film execu tive is a strange, repetitive urge. What he has done once he must do again. Once a star has made a success of a particular type of story he rushes to give him another of exactly the same type. If one costume picture has made a hit, then obviously a hundred more costume pictures will make exactly a hundred ...