Dane's Girt ap Orusr Stones By lien Glasgow. Murray's Imperial Literary.
Ellen Glasgow always writes well. To take up a book of hers is to be sure of entertainment and to be certain of freedom from annoyanee. If that rends like faint praize, such is by no means intended. The best masters of the craft are annoying at times, especially fu the short story, which novelists seem to use to air some fancy of conviction not allowed to intrude fin the longer form, Truth to tell, fs author does not escape that She has her special ich she embodies in her short stories. In the majority of; the tales in this book is a ghost, the corporal intrusion of a person It is not always con-Vineing in the telling, in spite of imple and sincere manner. But the reader forgives the unevenness of the stories and for the usual reason in such a book, that one of them is a little masterpiece to jccme upon which is worth reading, 1 dozen inferior tales, The gem is "Whispering Leaves," a story of a lonely, sensitive child who is left to be brought up by relatives who cannot understand him, When his "mammie" (darkle nurse) dies he does not realize it, keeps on seeing her and relying upon her as he has always done. This ghost of "mammie," the only remaining influence inthe child's life, is also seen on several occasions by "another relative who visits "Whispering Leaves," presumably through her sympathy with the lone ly little life. The effect of this ix told very realistically and convinetingly. It is a charming tale.
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