Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and other Stories' By Oscar Wilde. (Osgqood, Mcllvaine and Co.) The story which gives this little book its name is a piece of logico-whimsicality by Mr. Oscar W. S. Gilbert Wilde. Its subtitle is 'A Study in Duty', just as the subtitle of 'The Pirates of Penzance' was 'The Slave of Duty'. The hero of the opera committed piracy, the hero of the story commits murder, from a sense of duty. In both the author has an odd semblance of satirizing something--heaven only knows what. It is irony in the air---or rather in a vacuum---but it makes pleasant enough reading none the less. 'The Sphinx without a Secret' is a subject for a sketch by M. Oscar Ivanovitch Wilde-Turgueneff [sic], lt is a psychological study with the psychology Ieft out, 'The Canterville Ghost' is a skit on psychical research by Mr. O. A, Lang-Wilde--which accounts for its being a trifle langweilig. The author appears to have taken his inspiration from the following passage in ' The Tour to the Hebrides' : Boswed' Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?' Johnson: 'I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost'. The ' hylo-idealistic romance' (so the sub title runs) is very like 'In Castle Perilous', but not so amusing. The fourth and last story, entitled 'The Model Millionaire', is an edifying fairy tale by Herr Hans O. Andersen-Wilde. The moral is that if, on encountering a picturesque beggar, you find that you have only a sovereign and some coppers in your pocket, the prudent course is to give him the sovereign on the chance of his turning out to be Baron Hirsch in disguise. There is at least an even chance that he will employ your sovereign in disguising himself---in drink, But the generous soul will decline to dwell on such sordid contingencies. On the whole, the booklet may be commended as very pretty railway reading, for a short journey. It will carry you pleasantly as far as Hitchin; if you are going on to Peterborough, you had better lay in Tit Bits as well.