30 AUGUST 1913, page 22

Fiction.

THE GRELL MYSTERY.* DETECTIVE stories are in the great majority of cases written by amateurs. What lends interest and authority to The Grell Mystery is the fact that it is not......

An Exiled King.*

Tux curious and unhappy story of King Gustaf Adolf IV. of Sweden is here told almost in the fashion of a novel, but a very long novel, for it fills two large volumes of three......

The Tarn And The Lake.* Fishing Is The Contemplative Man's

recreation, and in this case it has furnished Mr. Holmes with material for a charming apologue. Somewhere in the north of England there is a lake which used to contain pike,......