11 JANUARY 1902, Page 26

'Twizt Dog and Wolf. By C. F. Leary. (R. Brimley

Johnson. Bs. 6d.)—This books belongs to a class which is one of the puzzles of literature. It has plenty of cleverness, a play of weird fancy, a certain power of word-painting,—but for whom can it be written ? Surely not for children ; if a child could understand it—an improbable suggestion—it would most surely frighten him. For grown-up people, then? If so, only for those of the most morbid, and, we should hope, most exceptional, mood. To take all this trouble in evoking these fantastic horrors seems the saddest waste of time.