26 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 25

The Prime Minister's Secret. By W. Holt White. (T. Fisher

TJnwin. 6s.)—This is a melodrama concerned with international politics. The writing is rather confused, and neither the characters nor the reader know exactly, to quote Calverley's lines, "why they are there, who on earth they were, and what this is all about." The author, however, must be commended for thinking of the ingenious hiding-place used by the villain for concealing incriminating documents. It would be unfair to reveal what this place is, but the audacity of the conception is really amusing.