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BOOKS

THE EMPIRE 'REVIEW.

AN INTERESTING. NUMBER.

The frozen peaks he once

explored,

But now he's dead and by the

bourd

How better far at home to have

stayed

Attended by the parlour-muld.

These lines seem rather out of Dace in a review which devotes so

Mrs.

Hosie regrets that

vented him from writing more about his wonderful journeys and explorations as she considers that he travelled more extensively in Although he had not the pen of a China than any other European

ready writer and would condense months of travel into a couple of sheets for his report, Mrs. Hosie considers that his maps and surveys must be of incalentable value.

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-N. B.

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I The Brown Book," J. B.

7/6 net. Harris Burland. Pub, John Long,

SERAPH WINGS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

STUDIO YEAR-BOOK.

HOW BOOKS ARE MADE.

SATURDAY, MAY 8

1924

lines are obtained by the insertion gested by the black-and-white- of strips of metal called Leads content of a page,-surpasses for FROM MS. TO GALLEY PROOF. As the "stick" is filled, the con- character that of the machine; tents are lifted into a shallow tray also the individual type in hand- The author completes his manu- called the Galley, the sides of setting being the product of the script, which, for the sake of sim-which are so constructed as to art of the type-founder (who At this stage no endeavours 'to maintain the true plicity, may be assumed to be a hold the type. novel; and the publisher, having account is taken of the ultimate spirit of the type face as given by accepted it for publication, pre- depth of the page of the book the designer) tends to increase pares to have it printed.

When the galley is filled, its con- the artistic superiority of the The size and style that is the tents are fastened up and inked, hand-set page over that set by Format of the book-are first and by means of a hand press a machine. definitely fixed. The manuscript proof is obtained. This proof is in short, the advantage in the is sent to the printer, who is asked known as the galley or slip-proof. setting of the page by hand is that

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For

Several men from greed and one

| THE from revenge are concerned in this, which becomes £1 Oght A GUIDE WHICH ALL ARCHI. against time and leads to one real

TECTS SHOULD POSSESS, and two supposed murders and

An attractive book has reached even a ghost in a twentieth cen-

us which should be in the posses- tury London mansion! A con- sion of all architects, designers venient motor accident induces and furnishers in the Colony-this two villains to confess. Two years issue of The Studio Year- women, a surpassingly beautiful Book of Decorative Art. No dis- paragement is intended in that and extraordinarily clever librar-statement but in view of the ian and an ex-V.A.D... a million- aire's daughter supply the love extraordinarily rapid growth of to estimate the number of pages In the early stages of a manu-great freedom is obtained. In the

houses even the best of architects interest, while the hero is an

are hound to run short of heas the book will make when set in a 'script's progress through the com- sparing of the words, whereas in es-Colonel, a nervous wreck who sometimes. This is just where the specified fount of type, and to posing room corrections can be the machine-set page the artistic regains his manhood in spite of Studio Year-Book comes in handy. submit a specimen page for made comparatiely easily, espec- control of the spacing is impos- Often several such ally whilst the work is still in sible. Mechanical spacing often most adverse circumstances. The review of the latest approval. most unusual treasure must be developments in the artistic con- specimens are obtained and re-galley- or slip-form; but when the gives us that peculiar white Pereira's excessive modesty pre; discovered by readers by them-struction, decoration and furnish-færd. At last one is considered work has been made up into pages] design that runs up through many

selves.

printer the cost of corrections becomes badly-spaced pages, 'and is termed ing of the house and contains a satisfactory and the record of the best work in Great receives his instructions to pre-considerable, as they may at this by the printer an "alley" of a... Britain and on the Continent of ceed with the composition of the point mean the re-making up of "ladder." This defect in composi- pages. Finally, should the work tion may, however, be eliminated exterior and Interior decoration work. with the names and addresses of i Type-setting may be divided have reached the stage of machinin hand-setting by a compositor of each designer. There must be into two distinct classes-hand-inx, alterations are likely to be good judgment.

Both methods have their sup-- nearly five hundred reproductions setting and machine-setting. Let even more expensive. Thus it of these most recent developments us consider a manuscript on its happens that corrections often porters, and are extensively used. in the Decorative, and Applied journey to hand composition, e represent an expense that seems Or machine-setting, the two main are speed and Arts and several are in colour. first room into which it passes is to the author disproportionate. I advantages Colonel Lynch's ideal republic In an interesting introduction to the case room. In this room, as but is really so only in the sense economy. But it is early days to

imminent. would give us some material bene- the year-book, Mr. Shirley. B. its name suggests, are placed theof being unnecessary, for it is the speak of the extinction of hand- Mrs. Hosie's is but one of many fits and destroy all that makes life Wainwright states that although Cases or shallow trays containing best-completed manuscript that setting

To machine-setting belong which has hitherto been machine Some letters of Mrs. R. own recount the hero's ideals are and otherwise, have hampered the inclined frames, the top case being Stevenson" are

those written Truth, Energy and Sympathy, but activities of designers and crafts known as Upper Case, while the several methods of producing a set, will in future be produced by amongst other things, the travels during "R.L's illnesses and there it is the Energy, constructive and men during the past year there is bottom case is called the Lower printing surface, of which the hand-setting. This fact is not

The former contains

without significance. of the writer of those lines-R. James written in the hour when

is also one to her from Heur especially destructive that is most encouraging evidence in some case Stevenson-one is confirmed in

The Warden of the directions of vigorous effort and Capitals, and the latter the ordin- the belief, that he neither interled he first learned of her bercase-state is absolute autocrat. he scand accomplishment. He thinks ary small letters and the punetua- been tion marks.. together with the then seriously nor intended that. They provide interesting peaks the word and straightway that there have lately

thers should take them seriously.

has sutleient resources to carry definite indications that the public spaces. These Cases are further They certainly ennnot be rightly Other articles are "Australia out any plan, whether it be to stop are taking a keen and discriminat- divided into compartments, each applied to Brig.-General G. F. Forward by the Rt. Hon. Stanley unemployment or remove West- ing interest in the decoration and of which is relative in size to the Pereira, C.B.. (M.G.. D.S.0%, the Bruce, M.C. Prime Minister of

minster Abbey. Warned by the furnishing of the homeland that number of each kind of letter it Austruha; subject of un éxcellent article by

Bolshevists who "had eat through many feel the poverty of invention contains. Some letters are more Dorothea Hosic. As Mrs. Hosie Cancer,"by a Medical Corres the muscles, ligaments, and nerves conspicuous in the designs of in demand than others, and the points out, Pereira might have pondent; "Numbering the Indian of the social organism and were modern commercial productions vowels predominate. Laughingly agreed in the very'eople," by F. II. Brown, CIE astunished that their giant could and the absence of original and next day he might have rushed off D.O. "Hunting an

not walk "he determines to give progressive ideas.

Studio to Central Asia or som equally Nigerin." James Stephens: and free play to every function. There The

Year Book," ncomfortable spot. The article Recent Advances in Selence" by is much sickly sentimentality be- Studio Offices, 41, Leicester gives a few details of that tremen-Pro1. J. Arthur Thomson. M.A.tween the hero, Austin, and a Square, London W. C, 2-3

LL.D. dous trek from Peking to India

fascinating widow, Marolle and his by way of thussa and attributes!

(The Empire Review. March Freat friend his tuberculous boy its success not so much to the number. MacMillan & Co., Ltd. cousin. Bob. Austin's great happi- prestige of the British Govern-,

London. Bombay, and Newness comes when he is alone with ment behind Pereira (with which

York. 1]

these, his beloved Saint Bernard, the wild tribesmen di the borders

Bruno and his cat Zamba. When of Kansu would not be greatly

Wells deals with his special brandtion of "The Studio," Ltd., 44. <concerned) as to his great power

of Utopia, he does at any rate Leicester Square and the latest of making friends wherever he

supply some cause for the sweep- number is a handsomely produced went. "Sorensen had been turned

ing social changes he describes if work full of illustrations in colour hack: Dr. McGovern had to travel

it is only passing "through the and black and white of some beautiful work by British and in disguise; but Pereira widked calmly through to Lhussa and

other artists. The material is not confined to the pictorial side of art thence to Darjeeling with every days. A treasure hunt up-to-date man's hand for him and notte |—the clue being letters underlined

but comprehends some excellent literary matter, dealing with the against."

in a book in a large private library.

much of its space to the recording excellent articles in this number.worth living. According to his many adverse factors, economie the metal types. They stand on fearries the smallest correction bill. I example, the "London Mer®***.**

of travels and of the fents of travellers and when in the same number one reads letters on,

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reading.

"A New View

Outlaw in

THE BROWN BOOK.

An exciting mystery tale especi- ally useful after work these sultry

minifest.

tail of a comet."

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-N. B.

["Seraph Wings." Col. Arthur Lynch. Pub. John Long.]

FINE AND APPLIED ART.

"The Studio" is another publicn-

HOW AN IDEA CAME.

chief are:---

1Linotype in which the metal types are collectively cast into a single bar or "slug" of the required length.

Geoffrey Moss, whose novel, Pepper." has been 2.-Monotype. in which the "Sweet

gays a types are cust singly but are extremely successful, delivered ready in lines of writer in "T.P.'s and Cassell's the desired length.

Weekly," tells me he received the Linotype is extensively used on idea of its theme in a letter. This The compositor takes up his newspaper and other work of areached him while in Austria, "rush" nature. It has the dis-from a girl in England who com- position in front of the case with his copy conveniently placed. In advantage, however, that no plained how hard it way to find his left hand he holds a small single correction can be made secretarial work in London. From metal receptacle called the Com-without the re-casting of a whole a window in an hotel in Budapest

Into this "stick" line-or even a paragraph. Mono- posing Stick, with his right hand he sets the type, on the other hand, and letterspares, etc. The Spaces although also used by many im. appeals are the small pieces of metal of portant

thicknesses, which especially to the book printer... various

In machine-setting the processes separate words, while short lines

involved in the preparation of a hand-set galley proof are, with the additional work of casting the type. controlled by one man-the compositor who determines the letters required by operating from a keyboard.

of type are completed by material called Quads.

Spaces between

lives of the artists. Excellently reproduced illustrations of the artist's best works are placed con- veniently near the text and add much to their interest.

newspapers.

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Hand-setting, when controlled by the compositor with a sense of value for "colour"which is sug

he looked down upon the Danube, and gradually the iden developed. Its plot, was written there, and completed while yachting round the coast of Brittany.

Now, "Sweet Pepper" is being praised by all who read it, and is about to be published in Hun- Farias. This author's surprise at its success can be understood when one learns that at school English composition was one of his worst subjects, and that his only previous work was a book on tactics, which he had been ordered to write for the training of the new army,

SUNDAY ATTRACTION

AT THE

WORLD THEATRE.

JACK HOXIE

IN

"MEN IN THE

RAW"

Scans from MEN IN THE RAW)"

Starring JACK ROKIP

AMIVERSAL ATTRACTIONS

A rip-roaring outdoor romance of red-blooded men, yellow gold and a true-blue girl who cheered for the fastest, most daring,

hard ridin', hard hittin' man that ever rode a bronco!

SCREENLAND.

"MEN IN THE RAW."

Hoxie's Biggest Western Thriller.

Thrills and romance, laugh and sensations these are the gaunt run in "Men in the Raw," Jack Hoxie's new vehicle showing at the World Theatre. It is a story of laughs, interspered with gasps. It jumpa from breath-taking feats such as bulldogging a wild steer or a sensational leap over a cliff, to the daring feat of throwing a live steer into space. For every shiver, there's a snicker; and the charming love story that threads its way through the plot is a pleasing relief..

The story is an adaptation of W. Bert Foster's well-known magazine tale, and George Hively, who adapted it, makes an excel- lent offering out of the swift- moving story, which is a remark. ably acceptable vehicle for Hoxie. The cowboy star stages a thrilling battle, under water, with the villain, following a chase across a river and an encounter in mid- stream. He rescues Marguerite Clayton from peril by bulldogging a steer, and so remarkably did the camera catch this episode that every expression of both Hoxie and his heroine are registered during the daring feat, which apparently, was performed by Hoxie personally and without the usual use of a "double," impossible in "close-up" such as are shown in the present play. Besides these scenes, there is a mad dash for liberty, over snow, and other gripping actions which keep his audiences on edge.

The cast is notable. Besides Hoxie and Miss Clayton, Sid Jordan, Tex Parker, two score cowboys ride in the thrilling range dashes that add to the thrills of the play. The scenery is gör- geous, the play laid in a great Sierra plateau near Lone Pine, a station on the Southern Pacific in the very heart of the high moun- tains, near the great Divide. 'Here one of the most remarkable snow- slides over filmed, one of the speci- ally thrilling hits of the story, was staged.

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

"WHERE

THE NORTH BEGINS"

WITH RIN-TIN-TIN

THE POLICE DOG IS A HEART STIRRING STORY OF LIFE & LOVE IN FROZEN NORTH.

TO-DAY AT THE WORLD

GLADYS WALTON.

Two Roles in Latest Film.

Gladys Walton, the pretty little star who has appeared to such an advantage in so many flapper The other pictures are the roles, essays the most difficult The New Round of Leather Push- part of her screen career in "The ers, featuring Reginald Denny.

Untameable.".

. As the diminutive heroine of, has the role of a girl of dual "Pink Tights," "All Dolled Up," personality, one sweet and charm- "Second Hand Rose," and othering and lovable, the other quite the antithesis. The character change plays of similar character, Miss offers much opportunity for real Walton has gained a widespread dramatic acting, and Miss Walton popularity. She is one of the is said to fit admirably into the best-known flapper stars of the role.

"The Untameable" is a screen In her latest vehicle, she gets transcription of "The White Cat," almost entirely away from the the popular novel by Gelett: flapper type of character. She Burgess.

screen.