2 MAY 1896, Page 25

A Month's Madness. By Harold Vallings. (Bentley and Son.) —This

is a curious book, carrying out in a way what might make an interesting record. There are states of delirium wherein the imagination works in an orderly fashion. If one could but re- member these workings and have the patience to write them down, the result would be worth having. The hero of this story imagines himself to be going about the world with a mission to put people out of their misery, and has some strange ex- periences in the pursuit of this calling, which Mr. Vallings relates with no little power.