29 APRIL 1911, Page 14

About Edwin Drood. By H. J. (Cambridge University Press. 4s.

net.)—Most people know what name "H. J." stands for, but it would not be proper to print it. We merely say, however, that he has been engaged for a long time in dealing with difficult problems, many of them conjectural. Here he seeks to elucidate the mystery of Dickens's unfinished story. We shall not attempt to criticise the effort. Those who are interested in the problem, a numerous company, will