28 JUNE 1879, Page 23

Fabellce Mostellario , . (Hamilton and Adams.)—Here we have some ghost stories—"

Devonshire and Wiltshire stories," as the title-page describes them—told in halting verse (but made to halt, it would seem, with a purpose), and with just that mixture of the serious and the comic which befits the subject,—a subject which many people, more, perhaps, than care to acknowledge it, doubt whether they should laugh or shudder at. Some of the tales are curious, and the book, on the whole, is done just as a book of the kind should be.