13 JUNE 1903, Page 23

The Death Whistle. By Richard Marsh. (Treherne and Co. 6s.)—Readers

who wish for an enlarged " shilling shocker " will find just 'what they want in Mr. Marsh's new story. It is six times the price of the " shocker," and contains six times the bulk of material and six times the number of shocks. The book however, rather more incredible and absurd than is permissible even to this special school of fiction. It is also entirely gratuitous . on Mr. Marsh's part to turn his virtuous, beautiful, and mil- lionaire hero into a Marquis in the last chapter. It will be as well if Mr. Marsh will endeavour in his next book not to "lay it on too thick."