THE EYE IN THE MUSEUM. By J. J. Connington. (Gollancz.
7s. 6d.)—Great are the possibilities of the camera obscura, and Mr. Connington makes admirable use of them, withholding his information until the last possible moment, yet giving the reader enough information to enable him to solve the mystery just a little before the revelation. What the keeper saw serves merely as confirmation of the conclu- sions arrived at by Superintendent Ross and the reader. Accustomed as we are to-day, however, to the luxury of being able to suspect every member of the caste, including the supers, it comes as rather a disappointment to find that we have only two likely candidates for the murder, and one of these is the heroine. Fortunately, neither is the true culprit, and Mr. Connington recovers our respect for his ingenuity before the end, and a little before his denouement, in which he suddenly jumps from the steady didactic to a more hair- raising style, and gives us a gallant and exciting chase in the style of an older day. It supplies the needed corrective to the rather ponderous reasoning of the body of the book.
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