24 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 28

THE OUTLAW OF TORN. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Methuen. 7s.

6d.)—Mr. Burroughs writes a great deal better about apes than about Plantagenets. Although what Stevenson called " tushery " and Mr. Stephen Gwynn " Warclour Street English is to be deprecated, it is a little startling to find Simon de Montfort beginning a sentence, " Right you are ! " There are adventures in almost every chapter of this romance, but that is all that can be said for it. It doesn't ring true.