REVIEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 4

REVIEWS.

W,e have to acknowledge from the publishers (-Messrs; Hodder and Stoughton), copies of the following latest publications: — “The Ringer” by Edgar Wallace. This writer needs no introduction to the. reading public. His novels arc renowned. Hailed as one of the greatest ■ writers of mystery “The Ringer” comes as perhaps his best police story. It is truly said that it is impossible no-t to be thrilled by Wallace. The reader will certkinly find thrills in plenty in “The Ringer.” “Dr. Thorndyke” by R. Austin Freeman./ This novel comprises 1080 pages in which Dr. Austin Freeman gathers together thirtyseven oil' the eases of the ace of detectives—Dr. Thorndyke. A •most compact and sizeable detective novel full of incidents and a thriller that holds the reader from the beginning to the very end. “The Leisure of an Egyptian 01Ii,cial.” In this book Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.0., D. 5.0., who .spent eighteen years of his life in the service of the Egyptian people jo a successful effort to regenerate that country tells of his life in a most descriptive and at times humorous manner. Thd book helps the reader to .understand something of the general woffle of‘the men of the British race in the outer world, and throws a gleam of oomedy on the class of Oriental rulers who succeed the English when they withdraw their help and protection from the weaker races. There is no talk of state craft in this volume, and the book is interesting in the highest degree.