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In this work Miss Moseley has presented a story of the war, a narrative of the supernatural having points in common with Mr. Rhodes's "Extra Men. " In each, there is the spirit-world visitor, in each the truth conveyed by him which gives the story its thematic character, and in each the living power of the dead made manifest. As I have pointed out in "Representative Ghosts" (_The Bookman_, August, 1917), and elsewhere, mankind will be interested in ghosts so long as earth endures. The most decided impetus to fiction given by the war has been, so far, in the direction of the supernatural. It is interesting to know that Mr. O'Brien considers this and Frances Gilchrist Wood's "The White Battalion" the two most enduring legends contributed this year to the supernatural literature of the war.
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