24 MARCH 1928, Page 31

The market is flooded with books on crime, criminals and

their romantic or pseudo-romantic histories. If the public is not yet satiated, it will find further sustenance of this sort in Mr. Charles Kingston's Rogues and Adventuresses (The Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.). We read of the priest Riembauer, with his saintly mien and magnetic personality, who murdered two mistresses in succession ; of that courageous lady, Sophie Dawes, who by her energy and wit exchanged a humble fisherman's but for a palace at Chantilly ; and of many others whose histories are equally astonishing. The book is full of good stories, but it is a sad commentary on modern taste that such books are so popular.

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