"Monussry." By Kilmund Downey.
"Morrissey" is tedious or enter= taining according to whether a reader's taste lies or docs not lie in the direction of settling down to story after story told in. precisely the same style and to very much the same general effect through the mouth of one fairly humorous conception of the author's brain, Morrissey is a lovable rascal enough, and some of his adventures have laugh behind them, "All, indeed, are mildly funny. "Tt is only when come pared with "Many Cargoes" or a book of that calibre, that the stuff seems slightly feeble. The adventure of the pigs and the meal is distinctly droll; and each tale has.|some neatness the rounding.
"Tue, House oF THR Ankow." By A.
OW. Mason. "(indder "and Sioughion, ie Ga)
Mz. Mason does not play quite fair in his new "thriller." It would not be kind to give away the secret of the plot; but it rather maliciously outrages a certain convention that we have always been taught to res ect; and in its subversiveness sug gests that the author has saved himself more than a little trouble by coolly ignoring the difficulty of solution and simply presenting' the reader with a fool's cap for his pains. An elderly invalid—a maiden ady—dies and is certified and buried. Without any particular reason for suggesting foul play, she exhumed on the word of an obvious maxvais sujet with an axe to grind. The super intelligent deteetive who elucidates the case, rather Jess than usually. asinine Watson, the charming maiden, the concomitant love-affair, the shifting of suspicion from each in turn to leach other, all are rather more along. the stock ' lines than Mr. Mas might have been expected to travels, Hour the method " is the principal thingy and. his, method is excellently. workmanlike, and holds our attend tion to the en
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