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.