Mr. Oscar Wilde and Mr. Arlo Bates are both, each in his own way, bright men; but they cannot write fairy stories---it is nigh a lost art. Dr. Weir Mitchell still practices it, but he is almost alone in the field---it is in fact the field and Dr. Mitchell. 'Prince Little Boy' of a year ago is still the best new fairy book to be had. Mr, Wilde in the 'Happy Prince', in paragraph after paragraph, shoots over the children's hearts at the heads of his grown readers and he misses both. Still his stories tell themselves, there is nothing in them to keep a nervous child awake and nothing unwholesome. Mr. Arlo Bates and Miss Eleanor Putnam in 'Prince Vance' have written the conventional fairy melodrama---fairies, wizards, giants and all.