Two or three little volumes containing the best short stories that have been published ought to be a desirable addition to any library-table, to be picked up by a chance caller or read aloud on a rainy evening.  And “Tales from all Sources” fairly well answer one’s requirements of what such collections should contain, being grave and gay, bizarre and frivolous, to suit the various tastes.  We should be glad to see Bulwer’s “The Haunted and the Haunters” (called in some editions “The House and the Brain”) reproduced in such a collection.  The fault of this series, if it be a fault, is that most of the stories are well within the recollection of any one who has read the English magazines for the past few years, —­“The Black Poodle,” for example, and “The Pavilion on the Links,” being matters of yesterday.  However, both are sufficiently good to command a second reading.

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