by stating that "the subject of witchcraft has been little
dwelt on by people writing for the young. Yet in all the wide domain of history there is no more terrible record." We think this terrible record has very properly deterred people from revivifying it for the young, and that this tale, therefore, addressed as it is to the young, is a mistake, which its merits, considering it only as a romanee,
unfortunately only intensify-. The authoress has a powerful imagi- nation and a ready pen, and has produced a tale which, not- withstanding its artistic reliefs, is in its ghastly incidents, and the
delineations of the mad passions of fanaticism, quite in keeping with the dreadful theme. Adults who require their imagination to be stimulated in order to realise such painful phases of humanity, will find here all the aid they can desire. It is the last sort of book that we should think of putting into the hands of the young. The scene is laid in the Canton Grisons, "where this horrible witch mania lingered to a late period."
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