24 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 26

SAY Au R'vom BUT NOT GOODBYE. By M. P. Shiel.

(Benn. 9d.) By an elliptical, close packed manner of writing, the author of this Ninepenny has managed to say as much in forty thousand words as most people say in ninety thousand. It is a weird tale of a sunken ship, a ruined shipowner, and 'a much competed-for heiress. It gets more and more impossible as it goes on—and more and more exciting.