Stories Told at Twilight. By Louise Chandler Moulton. (David Stott.)—These
stories are now printed, we are told, for the first time in England ; they are probably already known, but certainly deserve to be better known still. There are eleven stories, short, but complete, and finished and artistic as only our Transatlantic friends know how to make short stories. A strange pathos runs through most of them, and though they are doubtless meant for children, we cannot help thinking that children might be depressed by them. The griefs of children offer fascinating materials for the literary artist, and such literature is generally supposed to be read by children. Be this as it may, there are three or four touching little stories in this volume. " Sung in the Twilight " is a most poetical creation, and "Nothing Venture, Nothing Have," and " Jessie's Neighbour," ought to fascinate any child. Of one or two others we should say the same, were they not too melancholy, not to say tragical, in their conclusion.
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