Their High Adventure. By John Oxenham. (fodder and Stoughton. 8s.)—No
one can complain of lack of incident in this book, which is composed of a series of hairbreadth escapes both from the police and from the forces of nature. The "high adventure" concerns the escape from prison of a young lady who from the best of motives was compelled to kill a Russian official. She is successfully liberated by her sister and a young English diplomat, but falls a victim to an avalanche when crossing the Alps on foot in winter. The police, however, are already on her track, and the real moral to be deduced from tho story is that if you are a woman escaping from justice in boy's clothes the essential thing for you to do is to count your hairpins at night and when you get up in the morning. The story is well written and carries the reader on from one exciting passage to another,
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