A book that will find a place in many a Christmas stocking---though in certain parts it may be written a little above the tiny heads of its audience---is the collection of five fairy-tales by Oscar Wilde. Told in choice English, with happy diction and most delicate imagery, each allegory points a subtle moral. 'The Happy Prince' is a poem on charity; ' The Nightingale and the Rose' is a parable on sacrifice and renunciation; 'The Selfish Giant' tells its sermon in its title; 'The Devoted Friend' is an essay on friendship; and 'The Remarkable Rocket' is a bright and effective satire on vaingloriousness. There is a great deal of philosophy woven into the web of this fairy Pentameron, which gray heads as well as flaxen might read and digest to their profit. Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood have entered with zest into the spirit of the author; and from the frontispiece of 'The Happy Prince', a reminiscence of the St. George of Donatello, to the ignominious going out of 'The Remarkable Rocket', headpieces, tailpieces and all are executed in the most graceful manner.