... TALKING ABOUT BOOKS A Critical Causerie of Good Reading By Richard King THIS WEEK'S BOOKS The Black Candle, by Judge Emily Murphy [Hurst and Blackett 12s. 6 d. Antony in Love, by Charles E. Rose I Duckworth ys. 6 d. On England, and Other Addresses, by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin Philip Allen), 12s. 6d. I WONDER why it is that almost every bad thing has to become an actual menace before ...

... TALKING ABOUT BOOKS A Critical Causerie of Good Reading By Richard King THIS WEEK'S BOOKS Mainly About Women, by Alfred Edye Bles 3s. 6 d. The Tramp of the Young Men, by Francis Cunynghame (Simpkin) 7 s. 6 d. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie {Collins), 7 s. 6 d. WOMEN are by nature possessive. I don't mean to say they love to hoard (as a rule they don't); but what ...

... TALKING ABOUT BOOKS A Critical Causerie of Good Reading By Richard King THIS WEEK'S BOOKS Criminal Paris, by Netley Lucas Hurst Blackett), lis. 6 d^ Selected Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken {Cape), 3 s. 6 d. The Perennial Bachelor, by Anne Parrish (Heine- mann), 7 s. 6 d. Collected Poems of Teresa Hooley [Cape), 6s. WHEN dipping into Mr. Mencken's Selected Prejudices, I read: To the ...

... The Cinema and the PUBLIC By 2^ obert Hicbens We debauch our minds by submitting them to poisonous rubbish. We don't read penny dreadfuls, but ive go to see them on the screen, dressed up in mag nificent clothes, and pretending to be wonderful where they are only contemp tible, to be life luhen they are only vulgar I BELIEVE the Cinema has done harm to millions. But it has become a world mania ...

... XimWm^iN THE Librtw r THE NEWEST BOOKS, By Frederick Heath. [t Mr. Bohun Lynch is I am sorry to say seriously ill. Ed. J The Island of the Articole By Andre Maurois. (Cape 58.) THIS is one of the most amusing literary satires I have ever read, and Heaven knows we need them. It has in it a touch of Anatole France and of Swift. Mon sieur Maurois is a Frenchman, and knows the literary life of ...

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... |THEWeek.IN THE Libkhrx ff THE NEWEST BOOKS, By Frederick Eleath. It is with the deepest regret that I have to chronicle the untimely death of that delightful member of our team, Bphun Lynch. He and I had been friends for many years. The friendship was to have been knit even closer through BRITANNIA. Now it is severed perhaps eternally. A brilliant writer, a brilliant caricaturist, a sound ...

... . By James Milne IT is the news of hooks that people want nowadays, what's happening in the London literary world, as well as what's thought in the library. Everybody reads something, Somehow, and the instinct is to regard a book as a page of life, which, indeed, it should be. The cry, therefore, is not so much Tell me a novel to get. as Tell me what it's about and I'll tell you if I want ...

... New Plays Not up to Standard By Maitland Davidson Deadlock. By May Edginlon. (Comedy.) THE question of how much theatre audiences ought to get for their good money as expended at the box office-- running as high as fourteen shillings for a single stall, with even bigger totals in some cases-- has been spot-lighted into special prominence by the production at the Comedy of Deadlock, an ...

... At The Theatre by Maitland Davidson ''Thunder on the Left. (Kingeway.) By Richard l'ryce adapted from the novel by Christopher Morley. HOW extremely tiresome they tend to be whose only stock-in-trade in the way of description lies in similitudes. A new person being introduced to their circle, they can explore no further than to question themselves, and others, whether his nose does not ...

... New Plays up to Standard By Maitland Davidson Deadlock. Bu May Edginton. (Comedy.) THE question of how much theatre audiences ought to get for their good money as expended at the box office-- running as high as fourteen shillings for a single stall, with even bigger totals in some cases-- has been spot-lighted into special prominence by the production at the Comedy of Deadlock, an unskilfully ...

... Her Infinite Variety By Maitland Davidson John Galriel Borkman. (Q Theatre). ByHenriklbsvt WAS there not a Mrs. Patrick Campbell once, a slim, dirk-eyed, willowy, slightly amateurish young actress who played with Mr. George Alexander in what was then regarded as a remarkably daring and outspoken piece called The Second Mrs. Tanqueray ? For it actually ventured to suggest the possibility ...