16 JULY 1927, Page 24

THE MAN WHO KNEW. By F. A. M. Webster. (Selwyn

and Blount. 7s. 6d. net.)—A long and well-sustained story of an attempted rising of the black races of the earth against the white. This is ultimately frustrated. by three men, one of whom relates the tale. The book would have been less reminiscent of certain of its forerunners if one of the three adventurers had not been a South African, named Peter Pirow. Lovers of thrills will be taken half over the world in this story, and in every locality their blood will run cold.