17 DECEMBER 1921, Page 22

In A Christmas Mystery (Lane, 6s. net) Mr. W. J.

Locke gives a new version of the story of the Magi—three old and worldly-wise men who find themselves unwillingly going to spend Christmas at a remote country house in Cornwall, and who are stranded on a snow-bound moor near a poor cottage, where they find a lonely woman dying in childbirth and assist, despite themselves, at a nativity. The little story is seasonable and well told, and it is thoughtfully illustrated by Mr. W. W. London.