28 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 28

DEATH RIDES THE FOREST. By Rupert Grayson. (Nash and Grayson.

7s. 6d.)—If you have forgotten The Prisoner of Zenda this will soon recall it. Gun Cotton is now the Englishman who disentangles affairs in Ritzenhausen : otherwise, there is a starry-eyed Princess, a lost Prince, an urbane villain, a hunting box, and so on. Good reading in its way, and spirited.