Witch Stories, by whomsoever they are collected and compiled, will
always be sure of attentive and eager readers ; and we may be sure that they will not be the worse for being told by Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. Messrs. Chatto and Windas, therefore, did wisely in adding this book to their "May-Fair Library," and we are glad to see that in this shape the book has reached "a new edition." As might be expected, a large proportion of the stories are Scotch, and scarcely a single tale of witchcraft that we have ever heard is absent from this collec- tion. Fall justice, however, is done to the counties South of the Tweed ; and no more interesting chapters occur than those headed "The Witch-finding of Hopkins" and the " Manningtree Witches," both connected with the Eastern Counties. Most readers will be surprised to find, from the concluding chapter, how very little more than a century has passed since witchcraft was capitally punished in England.
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