MOST British authors of any eminence have been to the United States. Some of them have been on lecture-tours, whirl. ing across the continent in fast trains and stopping off for a few hours here and there. Some have been to New York or Hollywood and nowhere else. But they have nearly all written about America as though they had lived there for years. In newspapers, magazines and books they have told us, with every appearance of authority, where America was going, what it was, why it was prosperous, and all the rest. Mr. H. M. Tomlinson has been to the U.S.A. more than once, and he has not always been there as the noted British author arriving, awaited by the reporters, at New York ; but he has not written a book about it. This distinction will lend at least the appeal of novelty to his talk tonight, though those who know his writings will need no such added appeal.