.E100,000 versus Ghosts. By Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. 2 vols. (F.
V. White and Co.)—The obvious thing to say about this novel is that it is a " ghost-story and no mistake." We are not terrified with appearances that seem to be supernatural, and then reassured by explanations that show all the marvellous sights and sounds to have been due to simply natural causes. " Uncle Edward " leaves Glen Farloch, with .t100,000, to his niece Kate, on condition that she should live there for a year, the difficulty to be overcome tieing that the house is haunted. And haunted Kate finds it to be ; there is the spirit of a woman who has been murdered, and the spirit of her murderer, a very aggressive ghost indeed. She wants to have the secret of the place in which her body has been put brought to light ; he is determined that it should be concealed. Finally, the bad spirit ca exorcised by the influence of another spirit whom Kate is able to summon to her aid because she has laid her under the obligation of rescuing her child. A love-story is, of course, made a part of the plot, and the whole makes a fairly readable story.
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