OTHER NOVELS.—The Street of a Thousand Delights. By Jay Gelzer.
(Mills and Boon. Os.)—This is a collection of stories of the Chinatown of Melbourne. The complete adapta- tion by the Chinese of the streets in which they live to a miniature model of China is cleverly shown in these sketches, of which the most successful are the two first, "The Chinese Lily" and "The Blue Eyes of Wang Hai."—The Grey Room. By Eden Phillpofts. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.)—I-Tp to the last chapter the reader will imagine this to be a story of the supernatural, the haunting of the Grey Room being of a ghastly and terrible nature which will give him the authentic thrills provided by ghostly visitants. The explanation, which it would be unfair to reveal, is perhaps not quite convincing; but the novel is well worth reading, if only for the fact that the super-detective .,who comes to investigate these mysterious deaths falls a victim himself to the unknown power in the Grey Room. The reader who is tired of the monotonous ability of the presiding geniuses of detective novels will enjoy the thorough discomfiture of one of the class.
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