THE LEAGUE OF DISCONTENT. By Francis Beeding. (Hodder and Stoughton.
7s. 6d.)—Mr. Francis Beeding has again presented us with an entertaining political thriller. The League of Discontent is, like The Five Flamboys and the others, a burlesque, but it has in it that element of excitement which is the magnet for the countless addicts of the detective story. We again meet Colonel Granby of the British Secret Service, whose ingenuity is taxed to the utmost by a criminal con- federacy including a degenerate French Count—former Deputy and voluptuary—the egregious Italian cripple Caramac, recently released from confino, and a rabid Hun- garian patriot, whose high motives in the cause of the Minorities are the tool of the others' nefarious exploits. Perhaps the most fantastic scene is that of a bullfight at Nimes, where one of the conspirators hurls a bomb in the guise of an orange at the German Foreign Minister, the distinguished guest, whose death is to be the signal for a general Minorities' insurrection. The book holds the reader to the end, and is ideal for light reading.
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