THE W. PLAN. By Graham Seton. (Thornton Butterworth. 7s. 6d.)—Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, " Sapper," Mr. Gilbert Frankau and Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson all praise this story. So do we, for in spite of its faults it is certainly thrilling and reads as if parts of it must be true. It would have been a really first-rate novel of adventure had the author not attempted to include a love story. " We can sit in the wood, you and I, Rosa, and love. And have you brought the plans with you, Rosa ?" Thus the hero, who has been landed by aeroplane in the midst of enemy territory and has recently murdered an innocent German with a spanner, and stripped the corpSe of its clothes. He is now hot on the trail of a plan destined to blow a breach through miles of our defences, and should be attending to business instead of dallying with an anaemic Fraulein, even though she does lend him money. (Incidentally, it is hard to believe that such an efficient spy should have entered Germany without a mark in his pockets.) Yet this is a book to read. The murder is so well described that we have an uncomfortable feeling that it really happened.
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