SOCIETY SENSATIONS. By Charles Kingston. (S. Paul. 12s. 6d.)
Mr. Kingston retells sixteen of the causes celebres that have intrigued Society during these last hundred years. Most of them are divorce suits, such as the Colin-Campbell, the Mor- daunt and Dilke cases, the remainder being affairs of warring claimants to estates and titles. Of these last, the most exciting is the Wicklow case in 1869, a tangle that Wilkie Collins himself could not have bettered. Mr. Kingston has a legal interest in his subjects, and fortunately does not try to make capital out of the unsavoury passages. Three classes of readers will enjoy his book : first, those who are interested in scandals in high life ; secondly, those who are fond of legal puzzles ; and finally, and not least, those who are in search of film plots, of which there is a fruitful store in these pages.
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