6 APRIL 1912, Page 26

READABLE Novms.—The Singing Bens. By R. Austin Freeman. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 2s. not.)—A collection of detective stories told in the inverse manner, that is, the reader becomes a witness of the crimes and then watches the attempts of the detective to unravel them.—In the West Wind. By A. B. Le Sage. (Duckworth and Co. 68.)—A story of country life. The "west wind" of the title blows in Cornwall.