2 MAY 1925, Page 29

Out of the Blue. By " Sapper " (H. C.

McNeile). (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—It must be owned that these stories are not a little commonplace. The first one certainly contains a most modem development in murder stories, out unfortunately there is very little that it worth reading in the rest of the collection.