An Industrious Chevalier. By S. Squire Spriggs. (Chatto and Windus.
6s.)—An Industrious Chevalier professes to be the self- told story of a man who, after wasting his time and getting rid of all his own means and some of other people's, took to stealing and swindling, and by persistence and ingenuity succeeded in making a sufficient fortune to enable him to retire from his profession and begin life again as a reputable member of society. Mr. Sprigge makes his hero justify the book by declaring that nobody is likely to be seduced by his revelations to the following of his example, whereas many may be put on their guard against the de7ices he
used. How this may be we know not. But the ingenuity dis- played in the invention of ways and means of dexterity is very remarkable, and will afford congenial entertainment to those whose sympathy goes out to adroitness of hand and brain.
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