30 DECEMBER 1893, Page 26

Weird Tales from Northern Seas. By R. Nisbet Bain. From

the Danish of Jonas Lie. (Kagan Paul and Co.)---The student of folk-lore will be delighted with these gloomy legends of the Traug and the Gan-Finn, embodying as they do myths as ancient as the origin of the Danes themselves. " The Fisherman and the Draug" is a striking tale, and "The Cormorants of Andvo3r " a fascinating and weird variant of what we fancy is a widely spread tale. But all have a wildness and fierceness quite in keeping with the stormy coasts and seas they belong to, and are told with great effect and without losing much in translation. We would advise those who delight in folk-lore to read Weird Tales from Northern Seas ; moreover, Jonas Lie deserves to be better known by his distantly related English cousins.