29 AUGUST 1925, Page 21

The Shadow Captain. By E. B. and A. A. Knipe.

(John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Though the scene of The Shadow Captain is New York in the first decade of the eighteenth century, this novel is little concerned with the social conditions of the infant city. Captain Kidd, the pirate, dominates the whole book, and the mystery of his end provides the motive. To say more would be unfairly to reveal the central point of the story.