2 SEPTEMBER 1960, Page 23

185) ° ..,, °d L o n the Scales. By Leslie Hale. (Cape, Writ', This

is beautifully printed, well and wittily wiil° (though Mr. Hale is a little too free and ionagined conversations between real people,

careless in his spelling of proper Arles),

"'in o allf the retold true crime stories are almost all In other words, a book unlike nearly bsesTers of i kind: especially as Mr. Hale ately "i8 little histories to show, quite temper- justi and judiciously, that miscarriages of tne„c.e eon happen andwhere capital punish- still exists—innocent men be put to death.