story, "White
Pebbles" ranks with Miss Brown's best work.

THE VELVET BLACK, by _Richard Washburn Child_ (E.P. Dutton &
Company). I do not regard this as more than a piece of extremely
competent craftsmanship, and its interest to the man of letters is
largely technical, but it contains one excellent story full of dramatic
suspense and a certain literary honesty. I think "Identified" might be
commended to a short story anthologist.

THE SONS O' CORMAC, AN' TALES OF OTHER MEN'S SONS, by _Aldis
Dunbar_ (E.P. Dutton & Company). This collection of fifteen Irish fairy
and hero tales, told by a gardener to a little boy, show considerable
deftness of fancy, and although the idiom Mr. Dunbar uses is borrowed
and not quite convincing, his book seems to me almost as good as those
of Seumas MacManus, which probably suggested it.

GREAT SEA STORIES (Brentano's) and MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY (4 vols.)
(Doubleday, Page & Co.), edited by _Joseph Lewis French_. These
anthologies, which are somewhat casually edited, are worthy of
purchase by students of the short story who do not possess many
anthologies, for they contain a number of standard texts. But I do
not think highly of the selections, which are of a thoroughly
conventional nature.

"MOMMA," AND OTHER UNIMPORTANT PEOPLE, by _Rupert Hughes_
(Harper & Brothers). This is an unimportant book containing one superb
story, "The Stick-In-the-Muds," which I had the pleasure of printing
last year in this series. It is one of the stories which Mr. Hughes has
written for his own pleasure and not for the preconceived pleasure of
his large and critical public. I consider that it ranks with the
excellent series of Irish-American studies which Mr. Hughes published a
few years ago.

MASTER EUSTACE, by _Henry James_ (Thomas Seltzer). This volume,
which is a companion to "A Landscape Painter," reprints five more early
stories of Henry James, not included in any American edition now in
print. They have all the qualities of "Roderick Hudson" and "The
American," and should be invaluable to the students of Henry James's
technique. It would have been a matter of regret had these stories not
been rendered accessible to the general public.

FAMOUS DETECTIVE STORIES and FAMOUS PSYCHIC STORIES,
edited by _J. Walker McSpadden_ (Thomas Y. Crowell Company). These two
anthologies have been edited on more or less conventional lines, but
they contain several important stories which are not readily accessibl