30 MARCH 1889, Page 22

A Broken Stirrup - Leather. By Charles Granville. (j. Murray.) —The stirrup-leather

that gets broken is one used by a jockey in riding a race. The breaking leads to suspicion, and the suspicion falls on a young fellow who is no more in fault than that he has been unwary in the choice of an associate. The suspected man disappears, and the chief interest of the story is to be found in the vicissitudes of the search for him. Of course, there is a thread of love in the plot, and the whole makes a very readable narrative, not equal, perhaps, to the author's previous work, " Sir Hector's Watch," but sufficiently good to maintain the reputation which he acquired by that.