The Despoilers. By Edmund Mitchell. (Cassell and Co. 6s.) —The
reader of this "story of a missing will and of the search for it" will have no reason to complain. In the first chapter a mysterious stranger with a mysterious bag dies in an hotel in Santa Cruz de Teneriffe ; a villainous hotel-keeper takes the opportunity of ransacking the bag (in regard to which he has good reason for feeling curious), and finds in it "the will which is missing and searched for." Another will has before this come into the story ; and a very lively tale is made out of the complications thus brought about. With this also a villain has something to do ; not a villain of the hotel-keeper kind, but an M.P. with a prosperous future before him, too bad to be "pelted with the soft roses of poetical justice," as Bulwer Lytton puts it. More we will not say, lest we should spoil the plot ; let it suffice to say that The Despoilers is a good story of the old-fashioned kind adapted to more or leas unfamiliar conditions of life.
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