10 APRIL 1909, Page 28

The Book. of Witches. By Oliver Madox Hueffer. (Eveleigh Nash.

3.0s. Od. not.)—Mr. Hueffer has read much about witches and witchcraft, and has collected in this volume a groat mass of curlew information. How far it is exact we cannot undertake to say, We see that St. Patrick is said to have made a misSionary jOurney frOre Ireland to Scotland. Is this historical ? Generally we may say that we should like the book better if the tone and temper were more scientific. The subject is, in fact, best left alone unless it can be so treated. It has to do with some very dark regions of human life, and anything like persiflage in connexion with it is distasteful.