7 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 7

The Mad Interpreter. By Arthur Lee Knight. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—There

is an actuality about Mr. Knight's story which ought to make it attractive. It is told by one Everard Brooke, midship- man in the 'Ariadne,' then stationed at Muscat, and the lucky Participator in some stirring adventures. He overhauls a dhow which is found to have on board some French soldiers about to take possession of a harbour which has been surreptitiously con- ceded by the Sultan of Zanzibar ; and he has a very serious encounter indeed with another, which is a veritable slaver. We are not sure whether the story would not have been as good without the character which gives it a name. Good it certainly is as it stands.