A Dark Intruder. By Richard Dowling. 2 vols. (Downey and
Co.)—This is as clever a book of its kind as Mr. Dowling has ever written ; but then, the kind is one which makes the task of re- viewing very difficult to a reviewer who wishes to be fair to both writer and readers. That is, it is a story which finds its raison d'Atre in a curiously exciting mystery, the heart of which we only reach through the convolutions of an exceedingly elaborate plot; and, as a matter of course, even to hint of the nature of the goal would be to spoil the pleasure of the journey towards it. Suffice it to say that the inexplicable doings and supposed misdoings of Charles Ashmore and his mysterious visitor, provide one of the most ingenious and curiosity-inspiring problems in recent plot- fiction. A Dark Intruder is nearly as good as Gaboriau, and this is saying much.
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