24 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 20

The Mystery of a Bungalow. By Weatherby Chesney. (Methuen and

Co. 6s.)—This is a good melodrama, with a mystery which is very properly mysterious until it is explained. Even after this explanation the reader has some fun for his money, as an elaborate fraud with regard to an inheritance has to be detected, and this occupies the later chapters very satisfactorily. The characters are true to the canons of melodrama, and in a work of this kind that is all that ought to be expected.