jails Move Eves."—By Ganpat; published by Hodder and Stoughto published jer and Stoughton, A story of ancient Sussex houses and an Elizabethan ancestor who hunted for the philosopher's stone, of subterranean passages, buried treasure, and a well disguised villain whose identity is only discovered at the end of the book, These are the elements which "Ganpat" has chosen for his latest novel. The mystery is well maintained and ingeniously contrived and the descriptive parts are so clear that when the reader gets down into the underground passages hho has not the slightest difficulty in following his author about—a marked contrast with bewilderment which intricate scenery of this kind usually produces. But as a whole the story strikes one as rather mechan-cal and at the end one finds oneself asking two or three questions which should not intrude themselves. What they are cannot be said without spoiling the mystery but they are indicative of ragged ends which ought to have been tucked into place before the author put down tis pen. A fresh, ingenious part of the plot is the theory Andrew, the scientist, that other substances besides silver bromide have the faculty of responding to may enced vent une have verned may record events that have passed before them, especially when the orsons concerned were subject to high emotional stress and thus in a state to throw eff vivid electrical impressions. Andrew succeeds inventing.a machine with which he actually does obtain pictures of bygone happenings, which play their part in the story though one is rather relieved to. find that Ganpat" does not rely upon them for the solution of his mystery. They supply, however, a good title or 'a book which if not up to its author's best standards, is as exciting as one may wish—o.m.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.