11 JULY 1885, Page 23

curious ghost-stories are put together, the locale of one of

them being in Wimpole Street—a very strange narrative, for the truth of which the author vouches. But any number of these stories are of no avail unless names are given, and to giving names there are many often insuperable objections. "The Devil in Danchester," a story told by a country doctor, is possibly meant as an antidote, showing

that there is, sometimes at least, a natural explanation of these so- called supernatural phenomena. The staple of the Argosy is, as usual, fiction.