12 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 25

Wanted. By Dick Donovan. (Chatto and Windus.)—Twenty- odd "strange adventures

of a detective" make up this volume. Whether true or fictitious, they have a great air of verisimilitude about them, not the least element of probability being the fact that the narrator is not always triumphant. These tales of fraud and violence pall somewhat on the taste. We should not recom- mend a reader to peruse the volume from cover to cover, but he may dip into it, and find not a little excitement from its pages.