A beautifully executed book of fairy tales, in parchment cover, rubricated ttle, and thick paper page of most ample margin, and the whole illustrated by Messrs. Crane and Hood, the former contributing some charming drawings for the whole page, engravings, and the talent of the, later being displayed in the delicate fairy fancies that form the headings of each of the tales. And very pretty are the fables that Mr. Oscar Wilde has here strung together, tender and graceful as befits the school of which he is choragus, and not without a touch of humour. Of 'the remarkable Rocket', we are told that he spoke with 'a slow, distinct voice as if he was dictating his memoirs, and always looked over the shoulder of the person to whom he was talking'. 'Then there is the mother Duck, who ' kept saying to her little ones * you will never be in society unless you can stand on your beads', and every now and then she showed them how it was done. But the little ducks paid no attention. They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society'.