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wna inordinately proud of her re markably small hands and beautiful feet. She always dressed to fit the position of the heroing she was depicting at the time." Furnisa The question of adequate critician expected to find Miss Braddon in tall! The league games to-day include is raised by the mixed reception massive woman with an air of a match between the H.K.C:0. which bos greeted the appearance of intense romance"; and, instead, she second eleven and the C.R.C. at Storm Jameson's The Pitiful turned out to be stout, merry, Causeway Bay, thus I.R.G. and Wife," described as "a silly book," homely, "with a short turned up R.A.M.Č. second strings and the "great-rubbish," "lush and tush-nose, a large mouth, little twinkling Armistice Holiday Match on the ery," in certain quarters, und in eyes, a big head and bair thin and HK.C.C. ground between teams others as a work of great beauty, cropped." What he says of "John captained by Mr. Sayer and Mr Where critics differ as they do in Oliver Hobbes" is interesting. Mitchell. The teams received from this case, it is probably right to She adopted the nom de guerre of secretaries follow :- assume that the reader is likely to John Oliver Hobbes; John because find the book a good one.

it was her father's and her son'el Lord Morley once publicly declared name, Oliver because of the warring himself a voracious render of Cromwell, and Hobben because it is fiction." To a friend who asked homely. Her most ambitions-novel

The following will represent the what he considered the best passage bears the title, The Gods. Sonte B.I.C.C. 2nd XI. versus C.R.C. in English literature he quoted Mortals, and Lord Wickenham." 2nd XI. in a League match at Meredith'aopinion that some She owed much to this eccentricity Causeway Bay, commencing passages in Charlotte Bronte's of names. Some of her other titles 2.16 p.m.-H. E. Hollands Villetto" and a chapter in Raw for her books, though aborter, are (capt.), G. H. Piercy, D. H. F. thorne'a "Marble Faun were the equally curious; for instance. Malaster, J. N. Owen, D. Heid, pick. It was interesting to find that "Some Emotions and a Moral" and W. W. Mackenzie, D. E. G. such a fastidious master of English "The Worm that God Prepared." Nicholson, A. K. Mackenzie, H. style gave a foremost place in ・ ・ ・ Recently we were rereading to Griffin, C., R. Baron and N. J. bia library shelves to Dickens. He particular friend of cura the Perrin. bad all the Carlyle books, and stories from James Branch Cabell's

H.K.C.O. 2D XI. v. C.R.C. 2ND XI.

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another favourite TVALA Frederic "The Certain Hour, a book far ARMISTICE HOLIDAY MATCH Harrison Of modern publicists the too little appreciated.

"Pra

was warmest in his appreciation. of Honoria," in that volume, is one of

For the Armistice Holiday match the trenchant style of Goldwin the most ingeniously handled short the following teams have bean Smith. Of his own books he put stories we have reread for a long selected :— "Cromwell" first, though many of time, and the story abont Wycherly G. R. Bayer's XI. :—G. R. his readers would divide their votes Olivia's Pottage, has a beauty of Sayer (capt.), Rev. E. K. Quick, between "Voltaire" and "Burke." style that leaves most modern A. E. Wood, A. A. Rumjaho, H. Readers of his "Life" af Gladstone writers nowhere. "A Broton Bathatchet, U. Omar, F. J. Ling, may remember, that when Lord Woman" is also well nigh a master-D. Fritz, F. J. De Ramo, F. Baker Morley aed Gladstone what he piece.... In 1890 a number of and F. Miller. considered the finest lines in all Housman's poetic translations from E. J. R. Mitchell's XI. :-E, J. R. poetry Gladstone replied that the the Greek woro published in Mitchell (capt.), R. E. A. Webster, most glorious, perhaps, was one of volume "Odes From the Greek Lieut. Commander Jotharo, Pay. Milton's. Lord Morley says he fon Dmuntists," edited by 4. W. Pol- Lieut. Commander Paffard, E. G. got the others. In his later years lard. The first four lines, parti- Lammert, A. C. I. Bowker, Pay. he could not even recall the discus-cularly, of his (Housman's) version Lieut. Gregory, G. R. More, A. L. sion... A new journal is an- of Sophocler "Edipus, Coloneus" Gace, A. V. T. Dean and E. G. nounced in Paris under the title of are interesting because the mood England. Crainquebille, M. Anatole France they arouse is so similar to that con- has given permission for the use of jured by many of his own lyrics in the nume. The publication is stated his two precious volumes. to bo the organ of the association af

What man is he that yearneth street trulere who sell, fruit from

For length unmeasured of days? open carts. Jerome Crainquebille,

Folly mine eye discerneth" the coster-monger, it will be recall

Encompassing all his ways, ed, pushing his barrow before him cried : Cabbages! Turnips! The other Housman translations in Carrots 1 Whether he went go for the volumes are from Eschylus's

Play commences at 2.10 p.m. to-day and 10.16 a.m. on Monday.

I.R.C. 2ND XI. v. RAM.C.

The following will represent the Indian Recreation Club scoond string in the above match against the R.A.M.C. on the former's ground at 2.15 p... H. M. Say

as to make announcements of sales "Septem c. Thebos" and Euri (capt.), Sirdar Khan, E. A. Moos- of fruit as well as vegetables (vide pidra's" Alcestis." ... The follow-deen, O. Rumjaho, II. D. Bum- a popular refrain) M. France does ing appeared in a récent issue of the jahr, M. P. Madar, E. ei Arculli, not relate. At any rate, Jerome has Observer under "Undulations in J. S. Ackbar, Y. A. Wahab, A.

journal named after him, and has Fiction**-*

Kitchell and M. Sadick.

also blossomed out into an English Sir-May I direct the attention film, in which he appears as "Old of "Penguin' to the subject of in- Bill of Faris'' I .. Those whose dutations in fiction, which, I think,

Page 109 (Tauchnitz edition): "Often sho wa restless, and mov-

ed about with the undulating

grace of a cat."'

Page 163: They were sitting on the tiger by now, and abe un dulated round and all over him.

FRIENDLY MATCHES.

K.C.C. v. SHAMEEN C.C.

K.C.C.-R. E. Lindsell (capt., R. Earnehaw, S. Jex, L. A. R. Duncan, A. W. Ramsay, W. Hyde, R: Pestonji, J. C. Fletcher, A.R.F. Raven and F. Evelyn.

lat it is to receive rejection slipe both he and your literary corres The following friendly matches may be interested in the following pandent have so far ignored? I will be played-K.C.C. v. Sha- specimen. The editor of the Black append a few striking examples meen Club, Monday, and K.C.C. Cat, Book Hill, Highland Falls from Mrs. Elinor Glyn's Thres Easma Club, to-morrow. N.Y., returns your story because it Weeks"; but no doubt his indefatig- The K.C.C. teams follow:- does not fit his plans. Storios are able research will reveal an even usually unavailable merely because richer field :- an editor does not like them. Án- other editor may like your story. When it is accepted we should like you to tell us the name and date of the magazine publishing it. Good Luck! The Black Cat is first of all devoted to the short story as an art form. It tries not to "box in the short. story with policy and formula." It hopes to publish many unorthodox stories told in new ways using new material, and to accept many first storica. It will pot use salacious stories. Your help is appreciated. Certainly unavail- Jable stories, will be returned im- mediately, Certainly acceptable stories will be accepted promptly. Doubtful stories will sometimes be held ten days or two weeks. Keep- ing everlastingly at it brings sne- cesa 1 Sir Harry Johnston's

The Story of My Life" ought to be a biography well worth perusal. Sir Harry, as well as being a very individual novelist, is a first rate traveller, explocer, and linguist, & co-worker with Stanley in the Congo and with Cecil Rhodes from Cape to Cairo. All collectors of really unusual biography, take note-l Sir Harry can really write, graphi- cally and with an artist's eye for colour, and be bag bad unuspal experiences. J. S. Fletcher is certainly the most indefatigable mystery-story writer of modern time. The Markenmore Mystery" is his latest, and in this same year there appeared from his pon "The

Page 175: "She undulated about, creaping as a serpent over her lover, and kissing his eyelids

and hair."

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