There are a great variety of episodes in Mr. Charles Kingston's latest novel "Secret Barrier" (Ward Lock, London. Colonial Edition, 3/6) and he combines romance, mystery and intriguing situations in a realise Sie Rianne, the denouement coming bh Hn ly done, neve reader satisfied. The heroine is left ever, is quite satisfying and very but fails in that the detec-ion angle has not been forcibly built "The ending could hardly be described as a mental tonic, but it must admitted that the plot is original, lopment are at the same time minating and deceiving. Without the ae. i author deserving full marks for his ihi
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