"Ttoixt the Lights. By W. W. Fenn. 2 v ols.
(H. J. Drane.)— These two volumes consist chiefly of short tales, many of which have already appeared in various magazines and newspapers. Now and then Mr. Fenn gives us a sketch or essay,—in one, for in- stance, he discusses "Shakespeare and the Art of Painting ; " it is almost a relief to find that, in Mr. Penn's opinion—and he is qualified to judge, having been an artist before blindness made him a tittdradear—that this omniscient man had but a limited ac- quaintance with the art. The stories are of the kind which one is accustomed to see in Christmas numbers. There is a mystery in them, of one kind or another, not unfrequently with an ele- ment of the supernatural, and the denouement is managed with a. certain skill. Mr. Penn's two volumes have some pleasant reading in them.
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