The Man who coukl not Lose. By Richard Harding Davis.
(Duckworth and Co. 6s.)--This volume contains five short stories. "The Consul" is so good that it would make up for its
a were they not so good as they really are. It is a tale of the " spoils to the conqueror " system. "Old Man Marshall " has served the United States for more than forty years, and has been shunted from one undesirable post to another. It does one good to road how he gets at last a better turn. Then " The Lost House " is a good detective story. The conditions aro favourable. Some really good plots are sometimes spoilt by the need of filling some three hundred pages ; hero wo have something less than one hundred, The story from which the book gets its name requires for appreciation more acquaintance with the ways of American
racecourses than we possess. "My Buried Treasure" and "The Nature Faker" are really humorous.
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