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TypeContemporary review (Reprint)
CollectionThe Happy Prince and Other Tales
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publication nameThe Scotts Observer
Publication dateYear 1888Month 11Day 24
Contributed byRegina Martínez Ponciano
How to citeThe Scotts Observer (United Kingdom), 1888-11-24, available at the Wilde Short Fiction database, https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/1888j.

By Oscar WILDE. With three Full-Page Plates and 11 Vignettes by WALTER CRANE and Jacomb Hood, 116 pp., small 4to, old-faced type, on cream-laid paper with wide margins, Japanese vellum covers, printed in red and black, 5s. 
Atheneum—‘ Though with a distinct character of their own, these tales are not unworthy to compare with Hans Andersen, and it is not easy to give higher praise than this'.
Universal Review—' The five tales have each a point, are admirably expressed, and show a genuine poetic feeling. . . . The book should be read throughout. I can heartily recommend it as a good piece of literary craftsmanship',
Christian Leader—' Beautiful exceedingly'.
Dublin Evening Mail—'A beautiful book in every sense'.
Glasgow Herald—As a story-book this is most attractive in itself, but it is made still more so by the pencils of Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, whose illustrations are exquisite'.
World—‘ The prettiest child's story-book since ' Alice in Wonderland. '
Star—‘ Mr. Wilde has got Andersen's method and secret'.
Daily Express (Dublin)---' Rich in fancy, felicitous in expression, abounding both in humour and in pathos'.