30 OCTOBER 1915, Page 27

Heroes and Heroines of Fiction : Classical, Mediaeval, and Legendary.

By William S. Walsh. (J. B. Lippincott. 10s. 6d. net.)—A companion volume to Mr. Walsh's dictionary of the heroes and heroines of modern prose and poetry. Among other things, the inquirer may find in it the true origin of Mother Goose, Mumbo-Jumbo, and the Man in the Moon. The scope of the book is more comprehensive than the title suggests, for it gives information in regard to many of the places, as well as the persons, famed in legend and myth.