21 APRIL 1888, Page 23

Sir Hector's Watch. By Charles Granville. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—A

good specimen this of the fiction which relies for its interest on intricacy of plot. How a certain robbery was effected, and how it was found out, are the main incidents of the story, which is worked out with very considerable ingenuity from begin- ning to end. A love-story relieves the details of detective skill. We do not often get cheap novels from this source. It might well be more often, were they all to be as good as this.