Tales by Three Brothers. By Phil Robinson, E. Kay Robinson,
and H. Perry Robinson. (Isbister and Co. 6s.)—These three brothers have given us a decidedly entertaining volume. The stories are of a nature to pass half-an-hour very quickly and leave little impression behind them. The writers have the knack of transporting their reader out of his arm-chair or his railway- carriage into India, Africa, or America, and there developing before his eyes some brisk little drama. He is not supposed to believe what he sees, but only to be amused by it. Sometimes the writers go frankly outside the bounds of possibility. We hear of an apparently respectable widow lady who turned out to be a vampire, and of a Red Indian medicine-man who possessed the secret of a drug which rendered the drinker invisible ; again we come back to everyday life and the flirtations of an Indian station. None of the stories are worth remembering, but they are all worth reading when one has nothing else to do.
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