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The Alarm. By John Rhode. (Geoffrey Bles. 7s. 6d. net.)—All

the adventurous chapters m this novel, the storm at sea, the gun-running, &c., are delightful reading. Those that are concerned with semi-Bohemian journalistic society in London are less successful. The ethics of gun-running do not seem to trouble the author, who is absorbed by the task of writing a really thrilling story.