21 OCTOBER 1922, Page 45

The Smuggled Masterpiece. By Edgar Jepson. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. Od.

net.)—This short novel is an extravaganza. In it two charming young people, a boy who has every quality but quickness of wit, and a girl who has that and everything else, worst by means of burglary two very wicked old thieves. The fun is fast and furious, and the end satisfactory. We think the book would give great consolation to a very young person of either sex who was disappointed, say, by a bad cold, of a promised visit to the cinema.