Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Style: 5; Content: 3

A collection of essays--some previously published in divers venues, some not--each around or about some matter of legend (e.g., the phoenix, werewolves, mermaids) or sometimes just fringy science (frozen mammoths, extinct birds). If you're at all familiar with Avram Davidson, you won't be surprised to discover that finding factual foundations is scarcely the point of the essays; the point is listening to a wonderfully erudite and widely-read scholar riffing on a miscellany of eccentric subjects. And I say "listening to" deliberately, because his style is so very chatty and personal.