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To those who have felt the haunting charm that inheres in the Celtic consciousness of an imminent supernaturalism, this collection of Irish fancy, belief, and folk-lore, gathered from the lips of the people with patient and reverent care, will have particular value. It has interest as an exceptionally thorough and representative study of psychic sensitiveness in Ireland, and the slightness of the barrier between worlds seen and unseen.

G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London

The Substance of a Dream

By F. W. Bain

”In this new and wholly charming Hindu story a very old world speaks to us, but one that has not lost its childhood with age and sophistication. It is a world of innocent voluptuousness where pa.s.sion is not contrary to faith but is itself faith.

”Mr. Bain's people have character, as there are colors in moonlight, a character with a common beauty in all its diversities; and because of its utter and inner harmony, this creation of his has a very rare beauty.”

G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London