12 JANUARY 1924, page 20

The Unknowable.

OF all living philosophers Professor Santayana is probably the greatest artist, and never has he written better than in this lecture which he has just delivered to the......

The Gates Are Open. By Cranston Neville. (arnold. 78. 6d.)

Non-musical people will find in the story of Noel Lane much to entertain them. All the same, it is primarily a novel for the musical. It deals with the education of an artist......

An Intense Desire For A Change Of Social Position Is

not a very exalted ambition, but the reader becomes fond of the ploughboy Gabriel with his English good sense and his Scotch--one might almost say German—longing for education.......

Fiction.

EBONY AND IVORY. Ebony and Ivory. By Llewellyn Powys. (Grant Richards. 6s.) Tins is a most painful book. Even the author of The City of Dreadful Night made one exception in his......

The Conventional Tale Of The "society Beauty Who, On The

death of her father, disguises herself as a man and goes to Tasmania to seek her fortune in the osmiridium She falls in love with the handsome and melodious-voiced Salarno, and,......

Short Story Writing For Profit.

THERE are some unnatural mothers who rear their young on tinned milk, or chowder, or some such substitute for the natural aliment. Strange to say, their babes often survive.......

A Story Of Two Brothers, The Younger Of Whom Seems

unable to "draw the line" at anything until the end of the book. Being engaged to one girl, he keeps another girl in a London fiat, cruelly deserts her and causes her, suicide,......