REVIEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

REVIEWS.

"NOT GriLTY." "For it is not often." Mr. W. E. Norris writes in commencing '.his characteristic story, ''that lovers or sensational episodes are gratified with a case .so thrilling as the assassination of a well-to-do gentleman in a London park and the subsequent arrest of his most intimate friend, nor is it a common thing to see the young scion of a highly-respected county family in the dock on suspicion of murder and robbery." This is „ a promising beginning for a tale, and Mr Norris does not disappoint his promise. The result of the trial leaves the suspected man, Stephen Haveriield, free to resume conclusions with the world, as far as that is possible to one whese innocence is not generally Relieved in. One witness lie might have called, but as, tiii.s lady would manifestly have preferred to be on th? side of the prosecution, perhatw it v.is as well to-leave her in the background. Stephen had just promised to uianv y.'sT. which was imprudent, and i,r.d just rejected her, which was prudent, Stephen's father' disinherits linn, and he begin-- a new rnre r tecniinglv without a ch;-.iice. He is good'-hmking. reckless, indifferent to the opinions of society. nig-heacU'd in a pndosophic way. and altogether engaging. Nothing very st-.rrtling happen.-:. ~ Instead of quirting the country he accepts tic p-cst of agent to a limning sfjiiir.-". who has j:ove>- doubted him. ai'd .->.'t!'ai down to bailiff's, work in !>:.; --n't-iv-.' way. close to the ancestral jsi-itei* ha«- In-sv, and in the.-mids:-. c ; " ... wc-11-bred set that cordially dis-ainsiv-rw; <:-f. him. Hut the hunting so.uiru has a very nice little daughter, "and now. of course, things must begin to move. Hut there is still to be reckoned with the evil genius wjio was not called as a witness, and after- all Steuben has to s?ek peace or forgetfulnc-ss in Australia. It is while he is there that the murderer turns up in a London hospital : and Mr. Norris may be trusted to bring about the right "ending in "a. manner that keeps us intort' s tcd = t> 'h'* very last. The publishers are Constable and Co., London. 2-, 01 "and 3s Gd. The "Waitafcian" magazine for Senteniber gives a comprehensive account of school doings. The illustrations include the first, second and third fifteens A, B and C grade teams, and a page jot camera club photographs. "Some Golf Prooiems" forms the subject of a pleasant article by John E. Raphael in the Sept-ember Holiday Number of the "Windsor Magazine '"' with interesting illustrations "by A. Wallis Mills, whose golf drawings"' have frequently entertained readers of "Punch." The number also contains a long story, published complete in the one number, by Justus Miles Eorman, being the romantic history of a great lady of Trebizond. It is finely Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenliagen. The short stories include characteristic work, grave and gay, bv Eden Phillpotts, Barry Pain," Charles G. D. Roberts, H. B. Marriott Watson, Marjorie Bowen. and other distinguished authors; and the interesting new serial of Canadian life. "Hawtrey's Deputy," by Harold Bindloss, is carried a stage further. Sir Home Gordon writes on Politicians who are cricketers: and twelve interesting pictures illustrate the reign of King John in the "England's Story"' series. The fine artfeature consists of twelve excellent reproductions, of landscapes and s-eascapes by David Murray, R.A., together with a beautiful coloured plate of the i'Hjst's fins Daiutijig, "Mendw Sir??^." 1 '