PALAFOX. By Sandys Wason. (Cope and Fenwick. 7s. 6d.)—As Mr.
Compton Mackenzie says, in his introduction to Mr. Sandys Wason's first novel, " If you have never gone hunting the snark or taken a trip in a peagreen boat or are ignorant of the uses to which a runcible spoon may be put, I doubt if you will want to read this book." He is right. But, if you have ever gone out in the morning and longed for a talisman or a wish or an incredible adventure to transmute the world into a realm of inconsequence, then you certainly will want to read it. Palafox, the hero of this irrelevant fantasy, becomes possessed of a little disc, which enables him to read thoughts. He finds that he can enter into the dreams of city magnates or of purple buddleias. He christens this intriguing instrument the '" Ideoscope," but as he is too much of a gentleman to use it on the girl he loves,.his adventures become very complicated. It would be unfair to the reader to spoil his pleasure by divulging more and it should be enough to endorse the author's own recommendation of his novel as being fit matter for the drawing-room, schoolroom, smoking-room,
bathroom, nursery, stillroom and cellar.
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