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ing, it is fe to assume that be bas never read Thomas Moore's L'oetical animale. Far off, one can see there, are thrille, when the mind's eye. Works. Was there over such a moving about, like strange puppeta, Was there any book in four or five personages in vary If you met Jove an Apollo walk sees the darkened theatre, stai, reader? ing down the main sweet in "plus intent, five hundred of lined an existence in his timo which he did abowy costumes robes of orange foure you could not rightly feel the door whence the Raja must enter not read? And did any, man ever colour, red, or white, frum which more astonishment than should the wou Crespin is sending his benefit tuore thoroughly by his rond-long black arma protrude. appreciative reader when he finds sage for help to the outde world.
ing? Moore seemed, indeed, to All along the street there are Mr. William Archer writing melo- You hear the breathless bush when memorise everything he read, and nothing but hittle cafés. Little. desma. Did these gurznents it them Lucille's answer to "unwelcouns to this habit we owe some of his stalls. Under each staw structure, parfectly and carry to the seeing Proposals hangs for a moment; finest poems.
something is being drunk or traded eye a certain austere beauty of their you see the ginny, satisfied silo of
There has been a great rovival in in. And the whole has a sort of own, it would be no less remarkable to intron who is sure that it "will than the success of Mr. Archer's out all night, you hear this poetry reading since the war. Not improvised sir, the air of a cat Losges of Lilo Caused by War. By latest effort The Green Goddess all girl inquiring Mummy," angst people who love reading vansary, of the beginning of a Not only has he thown the pot-brough two obstructive pepper. for its own sale and to whom the African market. boilers how to construct a plot, but ints) "What's be waiting for? classic posts and dramatists are a he has achieved the mer feet of Not only the theatre but the audi-pover failing source of pleasure: but amongst those wat weary souls putting it across the footlights euco appear from the subconsious, which the reader imagines as he peoplug the hause with that elusive who, siek to death of ugliness and peruses the admimble stage direc "crowd-complex" which is halt the squalor, turn to poetry as the best nicans af obtaining that spiritual tions After reaching the CURTAIN play.
The play closes with the beautiuplift and sense of the beautiful for mains. The Haymarket or the fully symbolic action of the Ruja in which they year. For this type of Adelphi lies between those cloete lighting a cigarette at the mered mun, Moore has a special appeal of
his own. buzier, consoung himself for bis green coveru,
There are melodrampe and meto- lose of a new tent of his bare
There is the Black by the reflection that she would and secret druggists. Or titere is all." There you feel the mastery of the type of rich ricking insident Mr. Archer, his obvious control of which Shakespeare sometimes puts the wires that direct those almost into a tragedy.
Of the latter is human puppets. For, as in alt true "The Green Goddess.' Three Art, the characters are but sides of characters, the usual riangle, are the Author, which, when you come put down in the remote Himalayas, to think of it, is the argumoat of the stock Cambridge Baja appears, the Pantheists. There is certainly East and West are cuntrusted how something godlike in this achieve dull it all may sound! But it is not ment, the cuso with which Mr. dull. No earthly triangle ever were Archer makes figures in his own O credible as the Crespins and Dr. inge. As (I have every reason to Traherne; no threadbars Kaja ever believe) all the Victorian poote had quite so save a charm, and no thoughtlessly omitted to observe; valet" was over so convincing a Scoundrel as Watking. These are sweeping statements, but there is o much rubbish to sweep away, so many pale shadows of plays was querading as full-blooded Dnvinas, that a vacuum-cleaner would not be out of place. All the emotions so painfully parodied on the Surrey side here came into their own and stand marble against that shoddy stucco. The love of a woint for her children normally disgusts, upon the stage. Here it is just convinc ing and seely.
Hand" type, full of creeping spies have been a duained nuisance after | characterized by a grace and charm grain, and roots of a totally un- Shetland Pirates and Other W HOW TO WRITE SHORT | bas waited for him, or the poor boy
Even the stock devices of the jaded playwright are used with grace. Wireless, aeroplanes, bombs, all do their share without that creaking of the machinery. The Artist has condescended to teach technician bow to do it, the Carlou
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"Leather-Pushers" fame, playing fleud, it is always interesting. That elever youngster, Buddy Messinger, gives a great account of himself.
Matheson Lang demonstrates his amazing versatility still further in Jealousy, und plays the part of the uncouth skipper of the "Future" as if to the manner born. The big fire scene is exceptionally, well done.
His
In spite of the slurs cast upon it, Lalla Rookh" bas, and always will have, a stroge fascination for the average reader of poetry. The writing of it necessitated much painstaking study, and it was received with acclamation by the devoted British public."
His translations of Anacreon's oles are among his most exquisite works and serve to show his close acquaintance with the Greek classica. Moors way as thoroughly steeped in the folk-lore of ancient Greece as Macaulay was in the folk-lore of ancient Rome. "Even- ings in Greece," are of his most charming works, shows clearly the fascination which the country bad for him.
The works to which his copious notes refer, seem to embrace every branch of literature, from the unor eat Greek classics to the most modern of papers. Apparently he read in the spirit which the modern journalists and fiction writers read
earnest quest for "copy" Tit-bits of a unique and interesting
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And two or
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nature found their way into his poems, just as similar tit-bits to-day find their way into the stories and articles which the modern reader so greedily devours.
Thomas Moore was a popular, not a great, poet; but he was a great reader, and therein lies the secret of his continued popularity.
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__(6) The hero (1)who wittingly offende his new employer or future father-in-law.
If application stone could make short story writer, then all who want to write short stories should The last prohibition is particular apply themselves to Mr. Michuelly admirable, and it is satisfactory Joseph's "Short Story Writing for to know that such young men are as Profit (Hutchins, 68).
unpopular in tiction us they are in real fito.
hopes are fixed upon Jucre rather The novice, oven though his ta upon Parnassus, must. take his work seriously. Says the author:
I recommend all young writers (by this I meen, of course, in- experienced write) to start a plat book. This should be divided into two sections, containing in the first, analysis summaries of good short stories, and in the second, <riginal plot summaries and out linos, for personal use. He should beware of the back noyed plot.
do not like plats based on:
As a rough-and-rendy rule, editors
(1) Mistaken identity.
(2) Sacrifice for love's sake. (3) The eternal triangle plat (two
mon and one woman or two women
and one man).
(4) The hero who sets out to make a fortune and comes back in the last line to marry the girl who
Mr. Joseph thinks that shoat- stories are not only different in degros but also different in kind from novela.
A short story is not in any rea- pect a condensed novel. The novel is as diferent from the abort atory as a canvas oil painting is from a miniature portrait. Lach modium donanda its own treat- ment
The don'ts" in this book are even more to the point than the "da's," and this short summary may affingly and with one piece.ul encouragement that is a don't.
A final word. Let no young writer be discouraged by rejection slipe. In the first three years of his literary career Mr. W. L. George collected 7291
Such perseverance in counting- let alono, say, writing-merited suc- cosy in itself.
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