The Long Farewell. By Michael Limes. (gol- , T Lez, 12s....

The plot is as donnish as ever—a ,, R akespeare discovery leads to death in the tihrarY—but not the style: indeed, Mr. Innes per- °I ns himself 'contact' as a transitive verb,......

T He Dragon Tree. By Victor Canning. (hodder And Stohton,...

Log, well-organised, solid event ug ually, fast and n exciting novel of action ; Which a couple of nationalist leaders from just r Ilh place as Cyprus are exiled to bare, lonely......

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Murder In Majorca. By Michael Bryan. (eyre H A L...

Laconic, fast-moving er of pursuit in the Mediterranean (and I don't think there is a murder, despite the title). e • rY good indeed; this second novel would have little......

Bed And Board

The Natural Philosophy of Love. By Remy e Gourmont. (Spearman, 16s.) CERTAIN books seem predestined to be remain - dered. Remy de Gourmont's Physique de l'Arnoor (first......

6 D.) Nat Gould Rides Again In This Engaging Piece About

a new way of nobbling the favourite 1 1 -t hreatening his trainer's wife and daughter after he has won the Guineas and the Derby, and unless e is scratched from the Leger. Very......

Te E A Flavour Of Its Own, Though Many Will Prefer

t „ u e Pastiche (Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung) to the teal thing, as being tastier, faster and funnier. 1,, T he Golden Horse. By Alan Kennington. (Hale,......

A Doctor's Journal

Bedside Manners I WAS encouraged to read a report about how the surgeons of a Croydon group of hospitals, before an operation, sit by the patipt's bed and chat with him, leading......

It's A Crime

° w t . B e.* Dead. By James Byrom. (Chatto. and I du13s. 6d.) Echoes of a baccarat case of t he Nineties reverberate through this quite bril- fl an t tale, as a journalist digs......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 148. A. KARLSTROM ('British Chess Magazine,' 1939) fiLACK (9 men) WHITE (I I men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last......