16 MAY 1903, Page 25

Foggy Fancies, and other Stories. By Beatrice Whitby. (Hurst and

Blackett. 3s. 6d.)—The first story has a thread of the preter- natural running through it. This is a difficult thing to manage, but Miss Whitby does it with considerable success, and the whole tale leaves a pleasant impression. The same cannot be said, as far at least as the pleasant inwression is concerned, of all the other stories. " Curly Locks," for instance, is a disappointment, all the greater because we get interested in the people. After all, the raison d'être of a good and pretty woman is to marry, not to give up her life to her "poor people."