7 APRIL 1923, Page 22

The Lunatic Still at Large. By J. Storer Clouston. (Nash

and Grayson. 78. 6d.) Someone is certainly to blame for the continued failure to capture this gentleman-madman. Yet his retirement would deprive the world of a quantity of amusement it can hardly afford to lose. The machinery of the present instalment of his adventures groans painfully at first, but once well running it is unobtrusive and the story moves with that sublime disregard of dreary probability which is the soul (on a higher plane) of the picaresque romances.