20 DECEMBER 1890, Page 24

The Nine Worlds. By Mary E. Litchfield. (Ginn and Co.)—

The writer has retold the beautiful stories of the old Norse mythology in well-chosen and expressive language, and has, we think, hit the happy mean between simplicity and a more exact and ambitious rendering. Her own style, indeed, has a certain unmistakeable literary touch about it, which has added to the beauty of the originals. An additional incident which she has thrown in is conceived in good taste, and supplies no contrast to the tenor of the rest. The Nine Worlds will interest older as well as younger people, who at least can relish much of the charm that children could not grasp with readiness, a charm that the writer has rendered with distinct power, though it could scarcely fail to be felt.