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Those who have attempted to solve the problems afforded by

Dickens's unfinished story will find several new and ingenious suggestions in The Mystery in the Drood Family, by Montagu Saunders (Cambridge University Press, 3s. Let). Mr. Saunders identifies the puzzling Datchery with "a member of the firm of solicitors to whom Grewgions deputed his legal work."