. Novels in Brief
IT is exceedingly difficult to believe in the wonderful do whom Mr. William Le Queux depicts in Blackmailed (Evek 'Nash and Grayson. 7s. fid.). The idea of Dr. Warrfogford secret sanctum where he paralyses his victims at a touch. 'by a singular perfume makes them reveal their secret thou, will remind the reader of the "Cabinet of Dr. Caligrie which was the invention of a lunatic. Mr. Le Queux can better than this and should show more respect for his read powers of credulity. * * * If the real America in least resembled the picture of the brainless and frivo American society depleted in Miss Margaret Leech's no Tin Wedding (Arrowsmith, 7s. 64.), it would indeed be to despair of the Republic. The book is very cies written, and consequently makes painful reading for lo of America. * * * Probibition plays a great part Mr. W. B. M. Ferguson's American detective novel, The in the Glass (Herbert Jenkins. 7s.- (id.). The mystery cleverly managed, and not till the end will the reader s the real criminal. * * * Chinese White, a novel David Calder Wilson (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) is dist' topical, as it deals with English people and Customs " dues China. The best thing in the novel is the description of performance of a Chinese play. * * * Mrs: Pb Champion de Crespigny's The Missing Piece ( 7s. 6d.) is not a very exciting detective story, but the eharae are pleasantly drawn. Official and amateur detectives with each other in the search for the murderer ; needless
say, the amateur finally solves the -mystery. -
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