Need we say that Mr. Wilde's book is daintily got up? Pure white is its apparel, with a slight ornamentation of red and black: no common gold. The tales, compounded of pretty thoughts and harmless fun, seem designed to inculcate the gentler moralities—patience, courtesy, kindliness, universal sympathy. Perhaps there is most poetry in ‘The Nightingale and the Rose :' certainly it is poetical, and told in prose to match. The prize of humour we should assign, with some hesitation, to 'The Remarkable Rocket;' the very real humour of 'The Devoted Friend' being lost in the pathos of the story. Hans is something more than a rocket, and we end by getting indignant over his treatment. Every one will like the 'Selfish Giant'—once he has opened his garden to the Divine Child. 'The Happy Prince,' another wise and graceful fable, completes the list: the five can easily be read in an evening. A few illustrations are contributed by Mr. Walter Crane and Mr. Jacomb Hood.