28 OCTOBER 1882, page 18

Father Ryder's Poems.*

ONE point is much in this author's favour,—he does not echo any modern poet, be is free from the vulgarities of literary fashion. If hie poems are sometimes bald, they are never......

Ghost Stories.*

THE Pall Mall Gazette deprecates the inquiry into the authen- ticity of ghost stories promised by the "Psychical Research" Society, for fear it should encourage sensible people......