12 OCTOBER 1934, page 28

• Cobras, Mongooses And Magic

"- THE great rope-trick is a myth . . . It has never been performed, and it never will be." The basket-trick is . another clever illusion. Snake-charmers who claim to be immune......

Prose And Conersation

IN writing this book Mr. Dobree says that he was actuated by three motives : "(1) A desire to talk about something which interests me . . . (2) A desire to make the reader think......