26 JUNE 1926, Page 27

LOADED DICE. By Marten Cumberland and B. V. Shann. (Methuen.

8s. 6d. net.)—A thriller concerned with a subject dear to the Spectator—the invention of an admirable process of coal carbonization. This new process, promises to be so valuable that an international gang goes to any length to secure it for use in the next war.