| Type | Contemporary review (original) |
|---|---|
| Collection | The Happy Prince and Other Tales |
| Publication country | Ireland |
| Publication name | Weekly Irish Times |
| Publication date | Year 1889Month 02Day 02 |
| Contributed by | Regina Martínez Ponciano |
| How to cite | Weekly Irish Times (Ireland), 1889-02-02, available at the Wilde Short Fiction database, https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/102. |
Mr and Mrs Oscar Wilde. Novels are, comparatively speaking, easy work to the makers of them; so are magazine articles; and so are lots of other thingsalso, when you just know what you want to do, and can put yourself in touch with the folk whom you want to influence. But to be in sympathy with children, to know what will please them, and be capable of putting yourself sufficiently in their place to use the words, phrases, sentences, to express the ideas, which will best suit them, and appeal to their [sic] infantine senses, demands students of juvenile nature for the work. Mr and Mrs Oscar Wilde possess charming children of their own, and have utilised their acquaintance with the infant world in giving to it some delightful fairy tales, which even the which even the elders must appreciate."The Happy Prince, and Other Tales". illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, and published by David Nutt, is one of the happiest works which Mr Oscar Wilde has ever produced; whilst Mrs Wilde's fairy tales, also published recently, and entitled "There was Once," are a charming reproduction of the old stories, familiar to our childish days, which Nisbet has brought out.