Salvage : a Collection of Stories. By Hawley Smart. (Chapman
and Hall.)—Captain Smart's stories are as free from any didactic purpose as Dr. Karl Hillebrand himself would desire, except, perhaps, that they unconsciously point the moral that to belong to the " leisurely " class is a somewhat doubtful advantage. Captain Smart's heroes do not come, for the most part, to any great grief; but their lives are curiously mean and devoid of any interest really 'Worthy a man. It is something of a relief to be transported to Canada and a "snow picnic." It is true that we change coolant non animunt ; but the cce/um is better than nothing. There are some curious " psychical " experiences, too, the phenomena of which the writer vouches for, at least so far as to assure us that they were related to him as genuine. In one of these a young woman is warned by the sight of her lover (seen by her at every station) to leave a train which is about to meet with a fatal accident.
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