18 JUNE 1892, Page 26

What Was It? By Greta Armear. (D. Bryce and Son,

Glasgow.) —This, we are told, is a true tale. The "it" turns out to have been the spirit of a much-injured lady, who, thanks to the very great courage of a young woman who occupied the chamber which she haunted, was able to attract attention to her wrongs, and to bring about their righting. One cannot criticise a tale of this kind. The only thing is to ask whether it is really tra.e. Authors often make the most solemn asseverations of what is not fact, for literary purposes. But the brief preface here has a straight- forward look.