Tae Usvyixc Monsten. By Jessie, Douglas Kerruish. Heath Cranton, 7s, 6d. net.
Many readers will still. remember Miss Kerruish's prize novel, "Miss Haroun A)-Raschid," an unusually fine story. Her new book is of the same memorable kind. The monster haunts the family of Hammond of Dannow. At different times members of the family have died my-seriously, following a meeting with it amid horrible circumstances. In the early pages here is the latest such occurrence to Oliver Hammond in the Shaw at Dannow, only partially fulfilled, but lacking nothing in strangeness and fearful—ness. So far a capital tale, at which, there goes "a scunner through the flesh upon our bones," as in the more famous case of the Reverend: Murdoch Soulis of Bal-weary, in the vale of Dule.
Miss Kerruish has interwoven necromancy and the werctvolf myth with the "latest science and has made a first-class story.out of them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.