The several Shakespearean students among HOBBIES readers will welcome David Baird's The Thane of Cawdor, not only as a piece of scholarship, but also as a top-rank detective yarn. The story, told in the first person, by the physician in attendance on Lady Macbeth, relates how, roused to suspicion by various odd circumstances, he followed the clues and came to a reasoned conviction of the guilt of Macbeth and his queen before ever the latter, by walking and talking in her sleep, verified his fears. The author has not been merely intent on amusing his readers. His method shows the significance of many incidents in the play and serves admirably to interpret a large number of points in Shakespeare's method and intention. ($2.00)

Hobbies, December 1937