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Southland Times, Issue 20044, 4 December 1926, Page 13 (Supplement)

Michael Arlen has finished the novel which is to follow his “Green Hat.” It is in the same very modern vein, and it will probably have the title “Young Men in Love.” Collins, who will publish it early next year, is meanwhile to issue a series of Mr. Arlen’s short stories singly in booklets. One will be “The Lady in the Stage Box,” another “The Cavalier of the Streets,” and a third “The Ghoul of Golders Green.” Further, Arlen readers are to have new editions of his novels in dainty leather bindings. How appropriate! The London bookshops have had several of the notable autumn novels, as, for instance, Mr John Galsworthy’s “Silver Spoon” and Mr John Buchan’s “Dancing Floor.” Next there will come Mr H. G. Wells’s “World of William Clissold,” and on its heel Mr W. J. Locke’s “Old Bridge.” A Locke heroine is important to Locke readers, and his new one is Perella Annaway, a young artist who earns a precarious living copying old masters in Florence. Thus the background of the romance is Florentine, and, indeed, its title derives from the most famous bridge in Florence.