Wild and Weird Tales of Imagination and Mystery. By Sir
Gilbert Campbell. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—These "Wild and Weird Tales" are truly terrible. Sir G. Campbell seems to have ransacked the most bloodcurdling folk-lore for his materials. Such stories as "The White Wolf," "The Midnight Skater," ." The Thief's Taper," and "What Was it 9" should really not be read by those in the habit of supping late, and nervous young people. Perhaps the best of the stories, certainly the best of the English stories, is "A Day's Shooting." The book, on the whole, displays very little literary skill,—much less than we had expected from the writer, and with such promising materials to work upon. Still, the tales are horrible enough to dispense with any qualities of diction. The true sensation- consumer will not miss, we fear, style, as long as he gets his nerves sufficiently tickled.
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