26 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 19

The new Christmas number of the Graphic (2s.) is largely

about crinolines and the days when Dickens wrote and when Sir Luke Fildes and W. S. Gilbert were contributing to the Graphic. There is a thriller by Mr. Edgar Wallace, however, and an enchanting Lewis Brunner picture, while Miss Tennyson Jesse, Leon Bakst and George Morrow also lend their able pens and pencils to what is a very remarkable number. The best story of all is " The Podsnaps give a Party," by Charles

Dickens. * * * *