Looking at them in the mass, as it behooves a critic to do, the writer is led to the conviction that were the incidents on which they are exercised made to run the gauntlet of the rules of evidence, nearly all of Holmes’s dialectic efforts would fall short of actual demonstration of the point to be settled in each case. His present attempt to review some of the episodes met with in the career of that renowned exponent of the detective’s art may be fittingly closed with the statement that any impression of the marvelous and profound in his estimates becomes perceptibly weakened by their value, bearing in mind that it is nowise difficult, where there is a preconceived solution of a tangle, to suit every development to its needs.