Mr. Oscar Wilde's numerous devotees will no doubt receive his new volume of allegories with enthusiasm, yet even they may perchance be puzzled to understand why he has named it 'A House of Pomegranates'. The tales, four in number, are for the most part charmingly written, especially 'The Fisherman and his Soul', which has much of the naive grace of the old German legends. As is often the case in the author's work, there is too much elaboration of detail and an absence of the ars celare artem, yet the stories are, without exception, marked by poetical feeling. Far less commendable are the illustrations by Messrs. C. Ricketts and C.H. Shannon. For the most part unsatisfactory, the wood-cuts are less so than the full-page illustrations, the latter being in some instances so indistinct as to be hardly comprehensible.