... A LITERARY LETTER THE NEW BORROW. London, August 6, 1923. I learn from the New York Publishers' Weekly that Mr. Harry Hansen, the literary editor of The Chicago Daily News, is to have a Book Review department in Harper's Magazine, and we are informed that while Mr. Harper is to have a free hand in the choice of books to review, it is understood he is not to review any books published by ...

... A LITERARY LETTER A Testimonial to a Man of Genius. London, August 10, 1925. I am writing this letter in bed at the end of a long illness made almost welcome by the kind nesses of friends, which have taken many forms. I am not going to emulate an old and long-gone friend, James Payn, who once contributed brilliant articles to a newspaper with which I was asso ciated, and made fine copy out of ...

... You Never Know Till You Try Nionga at the Polytechnic --Those Dear, Dreadful Lecturers By S. R. LITTLEWOOD How joyful a thing is the way in which the very failure of the Film Society to please everybody, or even a satisfactory proportion of everybody, has put other film-folk on their mettle and resulted in an all-round stimulus! It has revealed the fact that there is a large and growing ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The Essays of Llewelyn Powys. London, November 17, 1924. One of the modern books most at tractive to me is Owd Bob, by Alfred Olli vant. It is a work of genius not too well recognized, although it has gone through many editions, and has just been con verted into a film play. I have, how ever, met too many people who have not read it. It is the story of a sheep dog, and I ...

... . Notes by Mrs. CECIL CHESTERTON Miss Lee White is back in England from a prolonged tour in the Antipodes. It almost seems as if the soft air of Australia must have an enervating effect on the artistic perception, for no artist ever returns from a sojourn under those sunny skies without a loss of edge. It may be that colonial audiences are so appreciative that the performers' standard of ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Mr. H. G. Wells's Vision. London, June 26, 1922. Some of the differences between English and American mentality are pointed out humorously and discreetly by Professor Stephen Leacock, the Canadian author, who has been lecturing over here. The Bodley Head has already published twelve of his books, and those I have read have amused me much. It is a repetition-- in a small way, ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Architecture and Travel. London, December 11, 1922. I have been reading an enchanting volume, A History of Architecture in the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen, and Amateurs, by Sir Banister Fletcher (B. T. Batsford). Frankly, I have no qualification for reviewing this noble volume, so full of minute detail and rich in pictures of architectural effort. I am not a ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Some Good Fiction. London, February 2, 1925. In a month or two Mr. But terworth will be publishing a new book by the new Countess of Ox ford. It will be called Places and Persons, by Margot Asquith. A mid the hun- d r e d s of books which pour into a newspaper office, I marvel how it is that those which are exceptionally good seem to reach the top so quickly. It is not ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The late Amy Lowell. London. Jtilv 6. 1925. Mr. G. T. Foulis asks me to in form the world that he, the founder of the pre-war firm of T. N. Foulis, is now the managing director of G. T. Foulis, Ltd. I gladly do so, as I am interested in all new publishing ven tures. Mr. Foulis, in his new firm, has already produced a quite notable volume, The Keeper's Book A guide to ...

... A LITERARY LETTER Arthur Lambton's Story. London, April 13, 1925. In my young days a great many more people read Schiller's plays than do so now-- at least, in England. Carlyle gave a vogue to the study of German, which the recent war must have very nearly killed-- and not unnaturally. In Schiller's Robbers there is a scene in which a son rails against his father, and argues that a son need ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Passion Plays on the Screen I. N.R.I. Charley's Aunt from Hollyzvood By So R. LETTEEWOOD Not so very long ago it was my task to try to see how far the art of the cinema in its present phase might be able to convey a tragic message. With the arrival of I.N.RI. at the Philharmonic, we see it essaying something that is from certain points of view profounder than any work ...

... Novels Serious and Very Serious Also Mr. Barry Pain The New Chester-Belloc Effort Like ordinary people, publishers and book sellers, printers and binders, all have their periods of rest and recreation. A month ago, one was in danger of being swept away and drowned by new books; but now the flood has shrunk to a trickle. One always hesitates to instruct people in their business, so I will con ...