This selection contains some of the author's shorter work In the title story the light-hearted comedy of his Uncle Silas sketches is given full play 'The Ox' is the tragedy of a stoical, inexperienced woman His longest contribution 'I am not myself' is the study of a man who falls in love with a girl who is not quite mad and yet who believes in the existence of things which do not exist, providing a restrained atmosphere of tenderness and half madness setting this story apart from the rest