TENACITY. By Guy Cottar. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Guy Cottar has
avoided many of the pitfalls so dangerous to writers of sensational fiction. His hero is not too doughty, his heroine is not too wonderful, and he has mingled romance with realism in an original way. When Philip Tenax chanced to meet a friend in Pall Mall, his thoughts were far from intrigue in Bulgaria, revolution, and kidnapped ladies : yet within a week he had witnessed a peculiarly revolting murder, and was impersonating the husband of a girl he did not know. There are none of the usual flaws in the machinery of this story, and the tale of Philip's business and amatory adventures and many escapes from violent death is convincingly written. The book ends as abruptly as it begins—Philip turns to the girl he loves and mutters : " I'm hellish hungry " ; which is at all events less hackneyed than the usual sugary finale.
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