... Heinemann story, called Pilgrims of Adversity, he takes us to Central America with James Wishart, the senti mental Scotch engineer of a tramp steamer. By contrast we go to the African Sahara with Major P. C. Wren in a volume of short stories, just published ...

... colleague had become a sensation. For each of the first half-dozen short stories Conan Doyle received about £35. For each of the second six in the series he got £50. For the twelve stories of the Memoirs, 1892-93, the Strand's grateful editor paid him the lump ...

... the mainly Hollywood story of the audacious blonde who was talent-spotted while in a dentist's chair. Jessie Royce Landis's memoir, You Won't Be So Pretty (W. H. Allen, 18s.), bridges both the English and U.S. stage. A good story is of the cast just ...

... covers the more ular contributors are Berwick Law, important events of the year with Major Sir Guy Campbell, Guy picture and story, and Farrar, R.C.Robertson-Glasgow, incorporates interesting and Peter Lawless and George C. Nash. Of all Newsagents and Bookstalls ...

... actor of Sonny Boy. Film fans will recognise John T. Murray and Gertrude Olmsted, who are Davefs parents in the sentimental story ...

... have told him so, and he said Well, anyhow, The High Road,' which is a story of a young sprig of the nobility who wants to marry an actress, was taken from real life. I heard a story at dinner one night and used it as the basis for the play. On the first ...

... Scenes from the first all-colour talkie, in which Betty Compson is the star. On with the Show, as its title denotes, is a story about the theatre, in which every- ...

... poignancy to the story. The test of a novel about Rossetti must turn on the realism or otherwise of the imagined dialogue, for the love story Elizabeth Siddall, Fanny Cornforth, Mrs. William Morris is more or less ready-made. In Victorian Love Story (Jarrolds ...

... of Marseilles. But I wanted most despe rately to get to my home in Australia. And out of my great desire came this story. It is the story of my stowing away on the P. and O. liner Rawalpindi and its strange chain of consequences. To tell the tale completely ...

... in this well-told tale. Guy McCrone disproves the theory that a happy marriage has no story in James And Charlotte (Constable, 13s. 6d.). A very real, touching story indeed is disclosed to Margaret by her grand father's diaries and the sombre one of her ...

... INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND WHICH MR. E. 0. HOPPE, THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER, IS TAK ING FOR BRITANNIA. WITH ANTIQUE PILLARS MASSY PROOF AND STORIED WINDOWS RICHLY D1GIIT, CASTING A DIM RELIGIOUS LIGHT; THERE LET THE PEALING ORGAN BLOW TO THE FULL- VOICED r CII01R BELOW ...

... leaving us to presume that it was Claudius and not Aurelian, whose reputation would fit this story so admirably. Anyhow, whoever was responsible, the story runs thus Prisca belonged to a noble family, and no doubt this was the cause that brought her ...