26 MAY 1894, Page 24

Miss Parson's Adventure, and other Stories. By W. Clark Russell,

and other Writers. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Clark Russell's story is very much like what we have often had before from his pen. Only, instead of occupying three volumes, it occupies but a fraction of one. As he is not one of the writers in whom we are obliged to consider brevity a merit, we cannot find an advantage in them. Mr. Morris's "Impossible," is a more disagreeable story than he commonly gives us ; Mr. Julian Haw- thorne's "Judith Armytage " is a weird affair, which reminds us of Edgar A. Poe. Mrs. L. B. Walford, Mr. F. C. Philips, Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. William Westall, tell the other stories; and we are inclined to give, from among these, the palm to the first named.