The Penniless Millionaire. By David Christie Murray. (John Long. 6s.)—Though
no story concerning the theft of a mysterious Eastern jewel can claim to be original, Mr. Christie Murray may be congratulated on the great diversity of thrills with which he entertains his readers. Lovers of sensational fiction may possibly complain that Mr. Christie Murray does not finish his story, and leaves his readers to infer that "the Dragon's Born" was at last restored by the hero to the awful personages who represent the Yellow Monastery. But this is the only com- plaint which they can bring against the author, who arranges with some ingenuity that what may be called a major catastrophe shall appear on nearly every page of his novel. Truth compels • us to confess that The Penniless Millionaire is a "six-shilling shocker," but, though comparing unfavourably with earlier works from the same pen, it is a favourable specimen of its class, and provides its full six-shillings'-worth of sensation.
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