... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. The Story of K. (i). This is the story of K. (1), and that is the tabloid title of the First Hundred Thousand. The Junior Sub. shows them in the making and made-- exceedingly well made, shaped into veterans in wonder fully few months. They are seen training and trained, with their little faults and their big virtues; men every one of them, fighting- men, grousing as ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. MYSTERIES: A WOMAN AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLE* Hidden from Man. All women are mysteries; and, when they are primitive, Juju alone knows how mysterious. Even Mrs. Amaury Talbot could not affirm that everything is known to her, though she has studied moderns of her sex who dwell many years behind the times (or, perhaps we should say, the period as we Europeans realise it), has ...

... . THE theatres manage to keep the critics busy. Since last week we have had two revivals (one of a French farce, the other a French melodrama), two new English comedies, a new Anglo-French melodrama, a new Anglo-French comedy, and an experimental matinee. Presumably, The Right to Kill, at His Majesty's, was the most important event from a journalistic point of view, though in itself it is a ...

... THE CRITIC ON THE1?-- HEARTH i. By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK SAGES-- who get to know these things-- have laid it down that, whatever else may have changed, human nature is the same now as it was in the beginning: and you can't produce enough evidence to put them in the wrong. T have just read an immensely interesting book on Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation, a compilation ...

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... The Woman Thou Gavest Me. By Hall Caink. \tieinemann The woman, Mary O'Neill, tells her own story to the length of six hundred pages. There is my girlhood, the tragedy of an unwanted child; there is my marriage, the tragedy of a mariage de convenance on either side; there is my honeymoon, barren of all but tragedy; I fall in love with an erstwhile playmate, now a grown-up explorer ...

... . By Sheila Kaye Smith. (Cassell 7s. 6d.) A brilliant study ol the impoverished landed gentry of to-day struggling to keep up appear ances. The Alards were, needless .to say, Sussex. Their lands were their life. For Alard old Sir John sacrificed his children. Peter, the heir, threw over the girl he loved to marry money, and came to grief. Mary married money, and came to grief in the Divorce ...

... BY MICHAEL ORME. (New Oxford.) THE novels of Robert Hichens lend themselves admirably to production on the screen. Apart from a dramatic story and vivid portraiture, his atmosphere and milieu, which the legitimate stage cannot catch, are translated in terms of photography, completing a picture at once compelling and beautiful. I have nothing but praise for this Lasky production. The ...

... . (Palace Theatre.) Those who saw the dramatised version of this successful novel were frankly dis appointed. The gaps were many and often, and if you had not previously read the book, you were left wondering. I was one of those at the time, and to satisfy my curiosity as to what constituted a best seller, I put it on my library list. I found it was much better written than I expected, and ...

... ?The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard. O. Henry's Friend. Everybody knows by this time that O. Henry, the American short- story writer, spent a certain portion of his life in prison, and that this experience, which does not come the way of every writer, proved of great benefit to him in his subsequent literary career. Not onlv did he get many of his plots from the stories he heard in the ...

... LOVE AND THE GYPSY. By IConrad Ber- covici. INash 7s. 6d.l LOVE AND THE GYPSY. By IConrad Ber- covici. (Nash 7s. 6d.) Mr. Bercovici, who found an interested public for his former book, Gypsy Blood, again writes of Rumania. He gives us tales of a vivid and passionate human nature, sudden and quick in quarrel. The strongest and most original situation is that of the duel between the aged chief ...

... . By Helen de Courcy Wilson. (Sampson, Low 7s. 6d.l . By Helen de Courcy Wilson. (Sampson, Low 7s. 6d.) An old situation to begin with. Jessica married out of hard necessity in order that her child should not come into the world nameless. The man who married in ignor ance of the reason separated from his wife for twenty years, and then, when they met again, he found that he loved her. This is ...