... kins or gaily impersonat ing one of forty-seven gin ger-headed sailors or, with hair dressed high in a by- !ione Clapham fashion, bully ing her bootmaker husband at high tea. I should say she is quite comfortably the best comedian of her sex to-day. The ...

... French Foreign Legion stories, though always there is Mr. Edgar Wallace to reckon with. At Great Length. There has been a fashion in very long novels making more than one volume, and it has been patronised by Mr. Maurice Baring, Mr. Brett Young and other ...

... instance, there are several soliloquies, which have long been banished from >ur drama,, and a plenteous crop of those old-fashioned affairs called asides, in which the character speaks his thoughts aloud before making his actual utterance, and which are ...

... practise the simple method in narrative verse. How should he, when Wordsworth, Longfellow (a much better poet than it is fashionable to admit), Tennyson (when he essayed simplicity), Gowper, Burns, and even some of the ballad writers did not But for all ...

... Bought in Piccadilly. Next, to Hatchard's in Piccadilly, where you c tap the readers of Mayfair and Belgravia, who, 1. if fashionable, are among the best readers in c the world. With them Mr. John Galsworthy's j Swan Song, winding up the Forsyte Saga, ...

... minute seal flappers, very large, impudent eyes, and ears like fried potatoes A Lady of Quality. We have a woman of the fashionable world in Daisy, Princess of Pless, written by herself, and published by John Murray. It is less a book of mentality than ...

... silenced, we can lean back in our seats and positively wallow in a luxuriance of senti ment, picturesqueness (such as ancient fashions provide, at a suitable distance of time) and good-humoured lv simple wit. Above all, we can sob- oh, how spontaneously, ...

... as has begotten the scholarly, combative, or devout men of the Church of England. He had for maternal grand father an old-fashioned scholar and divine, who was the author of The Early English Church, of The Cleveland Psalter, of two volumes of poems, and ...

... American market. Certainly Under the Greenwood Tree, with its leisurely pictorial serenity, its simple sentimentality, its old-fashioned and unarmed villain, and its village choir of instrumentalists, would only move our hustling cousins, accustomed to the pep ...

... are so solid that he may well be a real novelist in the making. Sometimes his touch is uncertain his lady and gentleman of fashion are utterly unconvincing, but the background of working folk against which they are set is beautifully rendered. Not often ...

... the front wheel, or riding the back wheel with the front one pawing the air 1 It was a miracle what he did with this old- fashioned machine, almost at its last gasp He turned it into a flying carpet or into a flash of lightning. It appeared to have the ...

... of Vicki Baum Reviewed by Arnold Palmer SO cosmopolitan have we become, so com plete is the demolition of the frontiers of fashion, that I was able to read in suc cession a novel about Austria by an Austrian, a novel about Roumania by a Rou manian, and ...