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BYRON TABLET IN ABBEY?
Should Lord Byron, the poet, wtter being dead for 100 years, have a tablet in Poets Corner, West minster Abbey
The question is ruised by Lord Rosebery, who urges in a letter to The Times the the objections raised in the past have ceased to exist, and *that the Abbey -authorities should discriminate between Byron the man and Byron the poet. The Byron Centenary Cominittee wish to erect a tablet,
f only look at the matter from one point of view, and that is whether I am justified or not in allotting some of our very precious ice to ord Byron mid-Dr. H. E. Ryle, dean of Westivinster
"At prevent we have room for five tablets, and if one lomoncs Byron with an,, Alsbey memorial what of several other great poets? "There Sher, for instance finer poet, in my opinion, than Byron. Also Keats.
The question is whether the elsins of Taron exceed those of other poets.
THE STUDIO
"The Pandio in i July her in keeping well up to its maal reputation Magizine on Art., Foremost among its interesting and artistic contributions is that in re- gard to the work of Mr. Glyn W. Thilpot, R.A.. whose "Italian Soldier No. 2, a masterful and colourful Mandy, appears as a This number is full frontispion of interest to anyone artistically inclined, containing as it does con tribution and valuable criticising pertaining the realm of art by authoritative writers, in conjunction with a profusion of beautiful res Junctions of pictures which form the subject of these articles.
-L.C.C. "The Studio" for July.]
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THREE OF A KIND."'
In "Three of a Kind is found story full of interest and suspense, Heather Done, the heroine, pro- mises to marry a profiteer in order
SCEP CISM OF
BENSON
It is interesting, but less to wonder what the future of Stellas Benson may be. At her heart scepticism has alwaye dwelt, and she has been tortured, by the fatility of knowledge, by the Totility of all things. Yet in the Beginning her joy in life, ber spre hension and appreciation of beanty were so intense, that the ultimate lack of purpose was forgotten
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
RECENT PROBE By John Mac fold (Heinemann, da.). Maxg field is always worth reading. whether, hid medium is prose Or verso. We can safely recom- mend this book.
the Power
madness
SATURDAY.
THE BEST BOOKS.
BITES FROM/
The Jews generally give your
I is now a good many years since Bir John Lubbook (after alde. They make your pay, but Wards Lord Avebury) Issued his they deliver the goods. In my ex list of the hundred bost books, and rience the men who want some to be three generalfered for his rushness. Among thing for nothing are invariably.
Christians, One other things, his selection feWe were not fairly beaten, my produc
under the lush of Ruskin, who, lord. No Englishman is ever fairly Told have putting hupen through the eaten, Saint Joan, Boone earlier, so needless, and blottcaquely through Bernard Shaw (Constable), the popular game of the moment that we quitgave beard mors of the rubbish and poison,"
It would be enough for a life's liber reading by an American expert, Gon-hig abrog
FOHTER ON MAI Jona By R., F. wish
Foster (The Bodley Head, 68. tion, Bd. An exhaustivo treaties on com
left
begnu.
tains a code of rules for play interesting to know-whether Miss and choice for any true worker Lam not only half siek) hat fen and scoring based on the Bowen has based her convincing loval reading. In spite of Sir. to the eyelashes with Scotchmen. "Nothing ever embittered Jay,
but story of training and environment original Chinese game, jot, even her own, pessimism. There is a finality about bitterness
adapted to suit the Western versus hereditary insanity on facts, John Lubbock's experience, how. Twenty-two bitter years ago I ever, similar lists have been issued knewly three MacChimps, and ideas of such games
or on her own keen imagination.
from time to time, even Mr. one of them was in gool. To-day and Jay was never final. Her last word was always on a questioning THE UNSEEN HAND. By Valentine The World is My Oyster." By Arnold Bennett having risked his seem to know quite fifty thou
sind. Darrold. Bd. A well-Edwin Pugh (Fisher Unwin.) reputation in that way. A song like black beetles over a soup pot- Thoy deep over London. note: Her mind was always open
what different list of best books you mind if. waiting for more. Oh, no," she contrived invatery story domin 78, Gd.
A fairy story for grown-ups in is found in What to Read (The would tell her pillow at night,ated by the sinister figure, of
Grundenwald, German, spy which after trials, and tribulations Plebs League, London, d.) This there must be better answer
who should have been shot at all live happily ever after. Adrian, work of some sixty pages in You can smoke your pipe in the
ither room said my hostess. than that.
Neuve Chapelle but wasn't a pampered, luxury-loving youth, is intended as a guide to books of
"sternly. This is the fourth of Jarrold's suddenly turned adrift by his rich value to students of the various
answered, "you have monthly mystery novels, and it uncle, who believes that his nephew Labour Colleges, etc., in England, another room? What luxury upholds the reputation for thrilla muust learn to rough it." Wakand consequently books are sug- which the series has already ing one morning, Adrian finds his gested only in such subjects likely Scotchman requiring a really obtained:
smart-clothes-replaced by an old to be of special value to them decent lunch or denner" either THE WONDERS OF SALvace by C. suit, this pockets empty and no For this renson very few novels gate himself invited to it or goes. 1 Brand (John Lano, 8s. 6d) servants to wait on him. He are included indeed, notiore without, and you can lunch or dine A book, that will be enjoyed by leaves the house, and wanders than four: "Walter Pater's im five or six times running before young and old alike Crammed destitute through the parks. He Marius the Epicurean, for he will dream of returning the com with interesting faols tolated by soon strikes up, an acquaintance account of Rome in the second pliment. We remember reguling one who knows his subject well with a motley crowd of crooks century AD. Fielding's Tom Arba Scot" to the fat of Boho
Over The book supplies long-felt bar-keepers and policemen, and Jones, for English life in the partridge and a bottle of the boy he
with a romantic beggar-boy: Atfer eighteenth century, and two of
adventures, Upton Sinclair's novels. But the remarked to us one evening THE PLASTIC AGE, by Percy Marks some astonishing
(Belwyn and Blount, 78. 6d.) | Adrian "makes good and returns work is not without, general in-To-morry ye'll huuch wi me. I A study of young men-at-an-to-his uncle and to his former comterest an fairly comprehensive now a place where ye can get a American University. Written fortable life. The fate is told in bibliographies are given on a nume oyster cocktail for one-and- in a refreshing style, but a little what is known as a "breezy style ber of important subjects. naive to our English ideas, and it is easy to read. The light the book throwa on hool life across the water should ensure it a good sale.
It in Stella Benson's tragedy that thus ceased to be true in her to free herself from a monotonousust vel there is more than a life and have the necessary money little bitterness. The world grow to Curry DUL berplans terrible to her, and she was driven st bolore her appointed day to seek refuge in a Secret World of for her. marriage she makes the imagination. But even this fring trip to Paris with could not serve her from the pur ult-lover and husband of herning furies of that self-questioning friend. In the confusion which which would not let her forget the follows the discovery of the flight futility her scepticism revealed. by the wife, Heather is reseted by and after the one useless effort of an ainoan, whom she had helped "Living Alone" she resolved to feel on Salisbury Plain. In order to no more, to let her perception be evade the police she makes herrell that of the brain only, to see all She was out as his wife A chance visit existence as comedy. four the profileer and half-brother being driven to burren laughter " to the airmum ends in a hurried and tife was becoming an old joke, and Forved marriage. After many com- plications and mistakes Heather discovers her real love for one of the three.
N.H.PP.
["Three of Kind, Emmeline Morrison. Long T. 7. 6d]
"THE BIG MALOPO."
by John
have forgotten the point of it." The Poor Man," her best book in point of craftsmanship, is the only one in which the Secret Story does ot rench, beyond the glorification of Self Miss Benson still finds beauty in the world, but none in humanity.-GEOFFREY H. WELLK in the Adelphi,
A
BUNCHES OF GRAPES.
Binher of grapes,
Timothy
Pomegranates pink,"
Elaine;
suve
want.
AN EPITAPH.
WHY FOOLS WERE MADE.
What do you suppose fools were made for? That you night tread upon them, and starte theni, and Rudyard Kipling composed an get the better of them in every epitaph for a monument to be possible way? By no means erected by the town of Sault Ste. They were inade that wise people Marie, Ontario, in honour of the might take care of them. That 350 men from that place who lost is the true and plain fact conceni says their lives in the great war. Hising the relations of every strong
inscription reads an
Lond wise man to the world about To the glory of God, the hin. He has his strength given honour of the armies of the him, not that he may crush the Dominion, und in proud memory of weak, but that he nny support and our dead who fell in the Great War, guide them." In his own house, 1914-1918, and whose names art hold he is to be the guide und here recorded, this monument was support of his children; out of his of pinks and mig erected by the people of Sault Ste. household he is still to be the father that is, the guide and sup- From little towns in a far land, port of the weak and the poor:
junket of cream and a canberry For me. says Jane.
A great part of the inheritance | of Winton Currett having been invested by his cousin and trusted in the Malopo, a 'diuinond inine in South Africa, he grows suspicious. and goes out to Africa to investi gate. There he meets the chief of erooks who is endeavouring to suatch the control of the nine, to be very which a pul
44 The adventures ond valuable. escapades of Winton Clarett und his efforts to protect and win Sheila Seston, the girl he loves, grips the attention of the reader from begin ning to end.
-N.H.F.P.
[The Big Malopo," by H. M. Egbert. John Long Ltd. 75. 64.1.
tart
"Love-in-a-mist," says Timothy:
"Primroses pale," says Elaine: A nosegay
nonette
For me." Boys Jane.
"Chariots of gold," saye-Timothy Silvery wings." says Elaine.. A bumpity ride in waggon
of hay
For me. saya Jane.
WALTER DE LA MARE
Marie
we came,
To save our honour and a world
aflame:
By little towns, in a far land, we
sleep,
And trust those things we won
to you to keep.
not merely of the meritoriously weak and the innocently poor, but of the guiltily and punishably poor; of the men who ought to have known batter of the poor who ought to be ashamed of themselves.
RUSKIN.
times out of count..
The truppenco Pop Goes the. Weasel." By T. W. H. Crosland (Fortune and Merrinian).
work is very simply arranged Each subject, under general head ings such as economics, history, philosophy, modern problems, etc.
LAUGHING.
is divided into sections, and the books of euch section subdivided into those to be possessed and those that need only be consulted in re- Terence libraries. There is "further division into book that postively, must be read by every dy stinfying the subject, and, in sinaller type, books, only likely to interest those desiring to study more in detail. Some iden of the scope of each work is also given, together with its publishers and price. In the complication of a work like this, faults and import tot omissions were practically unavoidable; but it is strange that, in recommending a history of the intended by the phrase “a true world, pride of place is not given to E. G. Wells's Outline of His worker's loyal reading, there is fory but to A. Barton's A Word little doubt that Ruskin would have fistory for the Workers, a much most emplistically disapproved the slighter work in every respect. inclusion of some twenty books Another strange choice is R. P. preliminary to the study of Kart Porter's Japan, especially as it is Marx. It is surely too many even the only work on the country given for a work, issued by the Piele, And, without going into the sense League
Literary. Paris is still laughing 1 A. M. Bourgeois submitted to the Comédia Francaise a play entitled Angénicas his own works It is, however, an infrequently pro- One of duced play by Corneille: the readers for the Comédia ross turned the play with word that it was not good enough for ao great, an organization as the French National Theatre. M. Bourgeois immediately informed all the news- rapers, and they, in tum-well, literary, Paris is still laughing!
HE MAKES THE WHOLE TOWN "SIT UP"
AND TAKE NOTICE!
HOOT
GIBSON
in
"BROADWAY
or BUST"
He's a mail order dude from Cactus Centre. In his new fifteen-dollar suit and fifty-dollar beaver hat, he struts Peacock Alley in the gets a parlour, great hotel He orders and ends bedroom and bath for his bronc and then invites the gang up! He stands the town on its head; Invades society, exposes a fake count burns up the roads with
fast driving; slopes i
It is packed full of thrills,
sensations.
COMMENCING TOMORROW
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SCREENLAND.
"ITCHING PALMS?"
Director's Interesting Revelations.
"It takes the spirit of play to accomplish real work," says Jimmy Horne, noted notion picture director, whose latest production is "Itcling Palms,!
HOOT GIRSON.
Here Again In New Picture.
Hoot Gibson, star in Broad- way or Bust Universal-Gibson production to be shown in the World Theatre to-day was a real hard-working cowboy before be became a motion picture actor. As Buch he faced many real dangers He!
without a quiver. Also in his picture career he has been just as quiverless in face of danger and he bas done some dangerous stunts before the camera,
Horne is an exemplification of the motto le advocates, imbues lue players with verve and spontaneity by good natured ban- tering and burlesquing of their "business" to safeguard them against the heavy touch in project ing their characterizations.
But while working in Broad- Horne finds that he can get away or Bust Hoot not only had better quality of work, even ont of quiver of apprehension, but he made no attempt to keep his feel- -player who acts the villain by making him forget the work for angs secret. For a time his direc moment between "shots" in caus tor, Edward, Sedgwick, who also helped to write the story, con- ing's laugh.
The greatest danger in acting Hoot might regain his customary sidered changing the script that before the camera is overacting," declares Horne. If players are equaninuity. But there really was under, strain, their work will be no danger, for finally, after much stilted. Therefore, the first essen- urging, Hook consented to go tial in dereen delineation is the board's vacht and out to sea gift of repose.
Broadway or Bust tells tha story of a cowboy who suddenly, becomes rich and desirous of show- ing New Yorkers how to spend money. He takes two pals and a
Unbike the development of character on the stage, tho, process before the camera is episodio and fragmentary. Where the natural trend of the story steers the stage, pair of horses and, in the big city, actor in achieving his effects, the he becomes a sensation in exclu- topsy-turvy nature of Alming, a sive society. S story makes impossible such. conscious guidance.
""""Thus it is apparent that the actor before the came must be in a relaxed and plastic state-dt ud times, so as to adapt himself tem perimentally to all Kaleidos come-moods that the
Bleated "for the days shooting, call
fifte
In the supporting cast
Dwyer, Gertrude Zan Fred: Stanhope Wheat
Rath
King
A delightful comedy drama with just enough laughs, just enough drama, just enough thrills, just enough romance and just enough mystery to give you one of the most enjoyable evening's entertainment you ever had. THAT'S
ITCHING PALMS"
BY ROY BRIANT WITH AN ALL STAR CAST.
The funniest "ghost" you ever saw the most surprising Secret Service man you ever heard of the sweetest grandmother ever pictured *----* the most thrilling fire scenes ever screened search you ever witnessed the hundreds of attractively see in this picture.
Coming 1
rode t'ici-2.
the most exciting those are only a few of entertaining things you'll
Coming!
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OLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
tani azad van HER BRILLIANT NEW PHOTODRAMA
STRAIGHT FROM PARIS
marvellous photography, modern society play in which the most beautiful and. ed of all cinema stars rises the full bel dramatic power,
IT IS THE MOST THRILLING
COMPELLING PICTURE
TADE
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