THE DOOR AJAR, AND OTHER STORIES. By Virginia Milward. Crown 8vo, cloth, 128 pp. Price 1s. net.
The weird and uncanny play a large part in the background of these fascinatingly told stories of passion and crime, in which the dramatic and human elements are never lacking.
Contents.—The Door Ajar. The Knife. Between the Leaves. The Mills of God. The Little Silver Box, "Das Kind." A Minor Third.
"As stories, they are striking, and brilliantly written; the occultistic strain in them gives them an additional piquancy. The last story, 'A Minor Third,' which is less obviously occultistic than the rest, ends in a situation which has seldom been surpassed for power in short stories."—Westminster Review.
"A volume of admirable tales."—The Evening Times.
"Seven strongly dramatic little tales with sometimes a touch of mysticism in them."—Birmingham Daily Post.
"A book of short stories very well done."—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
STRANGER THAN FICTION. Being Tales from the Byways of Ghost- and Folk-lore. By Mary L. Lewes. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 234 pp. Price 3s. 6d. net.
"There is much curious matter in the volume well narrated."—The Times.