Wou-Ner—By Winifred Graham.
Tiutehinaon & Coq London, (Kelly "ts it a web, or a Wolf-net?. One might break 4 web, but the Wolf Inet holds." 'Thus' cogitates the second heroine in this "book, who tooks with admiration and awe upon Woolfe, the central figure of story. Then she adds: "Miss is a human being all right, something behind it all, ry." This book delineates up the strange character of mysterious "Lou" of international fame, She is plainly set forth as Jo woman cat-burglar, who joins in daring exploits, the particular one Jot the story being a sensational coup in. stealing a world-famous painting hanging in the gallery at' Hampton Court Palace, Her abettor, Maurice Twyford, a Jereat art, collector, soon discovers that "Lou" is much more than he had imagined, and. their association in bad adventure leads to something neither of them expected. The story is intriguing and is well told; atthe same reader speculating on many points. Tt deals, however, too much with rites maintained that hallocinations had been induced by study of the history of the closing de of the monarchy but the authors denied having made any study prior to the fay of their adventurer Detailed researches were afterwards made. The: story of. these investigations lis fully reported in the book and takes" fascinating reading being told clearly and with but little appeal to the sensational, Corroboration of the facts is afforded by the experiences of a party of French people in 1908, before the first! dition of this Sooke appeared, who ssw strange people and. buildings jin Lo Petit Trianon just as Miss Moberly and Biss Jourdain had done.
There fs little attempt in the book to explain these experiences. That they were a form of hallucination fSeeme certain, but have was caused? Why should it have ocarsed to both and on different, but of every, occasion" Pertape Zome Tiving person, reared by" someone awas about the palace during irving days of the revolution, and familia, therefore, with. the details of Marie Antoinett's reside ethers, induced these. all jcinations, unwittingly perhaps, by heir veminations pon the" elf tory. "Thooget transference of this kind is scarcely credible but the triole adventure is 20 unaccountably Jstrange that any explanation seems
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