19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 49

The Stories of Wasa and Menzikoff. (Blackie and Son.)—We are

not told where these stories come from, nor is there any hint of their authorship. But there is something in them that suggests a foreign origin. Gustavus Wasa, "the deliverer of Sweden," has, of course, found biographers in a nation which has displayed considerable literary activity ; and the rise and fall of Menekoff have often been used to " point a moral or adorn a tale." Both are stories worth telling more than once, and it is a happy thought to have put them aide by side. Plutarch himself has no more suggestive comparison.