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UNPLEASANT ENDS.

Le

["The Sting," by William

Queux, Published by Hadder and Stoughton.]

life of Cagliostro and the books of Mr. Ernest Bramah could produce a yarn far better.

However, it must be said that this book is both interesting and pro- vocative of thought.

-K.M.-E..

AN APOLOGIA?

.a success-

Mr. Bernard Shaw's reply to her request to be an angel and write a foreword to this blography, you would guess that it was not a case of vox el grasteren nihil by any meana. Here are passages from his humorous refusal:

"I should look like a ridiculous little busybody making a pretén- flous bow in your limelight. ...... And, anyhow, what could I say? "Witnessed here debut, as Orfeo. Loved her. Would have married her, if she'd naked me. She didn't. actually have chosen Might

& Mr. Bernard Shaw, and chose

What a Rumford instead.

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Even allowing for, the fact that the author is that lover of blood, Mr. William Le Queux, there are an "The Clue of the Twisted Candle," abnormal number of people in this by Edgar Wallace, published book who come to unpleasant ends. by Hodder & Stoughton.] Sir Michael Evenden is found dead.

Mr. Edgar, Wallace continues his after a visit from a mysterious Dr. triumphal progress as Laidlaw, to whom both the baronet ful popular novelist in, his latest and his neurotic-wife seem to have book. He still exercises to the been paying sums of money as the full his undoubted gifts for cap the final reflection, no doubt, of What a woman! That will be price of silence. His heir, Jack, turing and, what is more, retain the reader who gets to the end of has married his step-mother's

Ing the interest and attention of former companion, unknown to any- one. He is the next to die, and the his readers from the first to the all theat pleturesque ponderings title passes to Frank, Lady Even- last page. He himself writes of on the great contralto's character Ever since as "that den's son by a former marriage. one of the characters of this book and career.

man!"

her voice was as

Benson, the conventional faithful"If, in the literary world, he big new girl from Bristol" she rag- family lawyer, and police innumer-was regarded by superior persons ged her companions, at the Royal able arrive on the scene, and one as a writer of shockers, he bad a College of Music, where she had mystery follows unother, cach being large and increasing public who won the Open Scholarship, dress- a little more improbable than its were fascinated and thrilled by the ing up as a man and bailing them predecessor. Of course in the end, wholesome stories he wrote, and in a deep voice and perhaps steal- Lady Evenden herself shuffles off who held on breathlessly to the ing a kiss, her ample personality the mortal coll-about two hundred skein of mystery until they came impressed everybody who met her. She easily brushed aside the potty! pages too late-arid the title goes to to the denouement he had plan jealousies which sprang up, like

It is almost as if Mr. the infant son of Jack Evenden, thened," unfortunate Frank eventually Wallace were in this paragraph Psychological weeds, in the world marrying his brother's widow. offering an apologia for his own of musicians; an ego-centric race. We suppose many readers like work-an apologia we neither need Du Maurier found in her hia this sort of story, or the publishers nor wish for so long as his powers model for Trilby, and when he said a peach or a would not put them out; but to read as a writer remain. "The Sting" seriously is asking John Lexham is accused of mur- nectarine to the apples of the others rather too much from anyone who dering a Greek moneylender, and ("a woman archangel might aing got beyong Standard Four at is sentenced to fifteen years in like that") the last word of praise school. The nature of the sting it-prison. His wife is pestered by was pronounced. self is the only surprise in over the attentions of one Kara, an

MANY CELEBRITIES. three hundred pages of hackneyed Albanian of unsavory reputation. She soon became a personage, plot decked out in very indifferent Kara engineers the escape of, Lex- and in "Abide with me, sung. to English.

bam the morning after he had the tune that was written for her, been pardoned, and takes both him she had a spell that gould bring and his wife to Durazzo, where the whole world to her feat. We may not agree with the author they are kept as prisoners. Kara Queen Victoria paid her a special returns to London and his move compliment: "I have never liked as to what he claims are unmistak-ments become matters of interest the English language before, but after death. We may doubt that to the authorities, particularly to in your mouth it is beautiful" A this book will bring help and con- X. Meredith, who had been a significant saying. The ex-Kalser There said of her: "Isn't it funny? She theless, the subject has always been follows a series of most thrilling can sing German songs like a Ger- one of absorbing interest to men, chapters in which we are introduc-man, but she can't pronounce the and 'Cheiro' has written a numbered to Kara's shady chauffeur, his titles." Afterwards he showed her of his experiences. in a manner secretary, Misa Holland, a young a musical compilation of his own, the last lady who is not at all that she which turned out to be a. simple page. He does not point a glowing appears to be, and numerous other sort of hymn-like piece, without picture of eternal happiness for the intriguing characters. We are not departed unless they have a clear very surprised when Kara himself any pretence to originality; but he was inordinately proud of it. She conscience. Indeed the general im- is found dead. in the most mysteri- refused to dance with the King pression we derive from this book ous circumstances. His company (then Prince George) at a cheer is that the evil that men do goes had been so dubious that we are ful party, saying: "I'm sorry, sir, with them Beyond. It is a trifle prepared for anything. disturbing to be told that the dead The final unravelling is, as usual but I'm afraid that ofther you're

too short or I'm too tall." are capable of wreaking vengeance with this author, the one explana Edward Elgar has been a life-long on the living, as most of us have tion we never expected. And yet, friend, and when he heard one been brought up to believe that ven-when all the facts are finally plac of the marches in his "Pomp and geance is the prerogative of other ed before us, we wonder how we Circumstance" she said: "What a hands. The first six stories deal missed so obvious a solution. This tune! Why don't you write a song with this type of warning and is as it should be. To cajole the for me and use that as a refrain?" avenging revenant, and raise such reader Into making all sorts of

[True Ghost Stories," by 'Cheiro,]

able proofs of the continuity of life

solution to all classes. Never-

which holds our interest

great friend of Lexham.

•

Sir

interesting points as the Inadvia-wild and unlikely theories of his "Land of Hope and Glory" was the ability of opening up Egyptian own, and then to place before him result. tombs. We find it hard to believe a very simple explanation, is the

HER SENSE OF HUMOUR.`

that the spirits of ancient Egyp: essence of all good mystery stories. Everybody that is anybody turns tians should object to the discovery Mr. Wallace is, we are sorry to see, up in these pages, which are say- of mummies, and their subsequent using rather a lot of trite sayings ed from being a libellous panegyric examination. They were a highly to fill out his pages. For example, by the subject's sense of humour. cultured people, and ought not to in a perfectly ordinary converan- It was not for nothing that her hinder our very natural desire totion, he makes the defective any great-great-grandfather was Theo- know more about them, and their "It is the duty of every head of a dore Hook!

ways.

So she

could even

Mary had a little lamb.

In the second part of the book department to shield the incompet- dispose of those indefatigable ir- ence of his subordinates. It is repressibles, American interview- 'Cheiro' deals with occult pheno-only by the adoption of some such ers, Asked by one of them what mena in general. His accounts of visits from Nurse Cavell, King method that the decencies of public she thought of Pittsburg, she Edward, Nordica and many others life can be observed." We seem quoted their own classic: have a morbid Interest, although to have heard this sort of thing we may question their good taste.quite enough from the columns of The Chinese story is not at all con- the gutter press, and a novelist of vincing anyone who had read a repute ought not to need to stoop to it. A little cheap, Mr. Wallace. We must recommend this book as an excellent entertainment.

-K. M. E

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