Current Literature
THE GHOST BOOK. Compiled by Cynthia Asquith. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.)—The connoisseur in ghost stories is generally an epicure who tastes and thrills, n " ghostronome." The present reviewer brought to this book a palate mellowed by continual ghost-tasting among the best collections of such stories. He found, he is sorry to say, that none of those now gathered together was quite entitled to a place in any of these collections, although several were highly com- mended. There are two all-but first-raters in the present volume, one by Miss May Sinclair, which manages to intertwine horror of the lewd and horror of the supernatural in a remarkable way, and one, " The Rocking Horse Winner," by Mr. D. H. Lawrence. The rest reach a praiseworthy rather than an exciting level ; there are no bad ones, but there are none which make the reader himself feel bad.
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