10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 12

Little Margit, and other Stories. By M. A. Reser. (Griffith,

Farran, and Co.)—This volume contains five fairy.stories. Little Margit comes unawares on the fairies, and is condemned to knit twelve- dozen comforters out of the best cloud gossamer for the moths, which, it seems, are apt to catch cold at night. This she is helped to do in the orthodox way by sundry birds whom she has befriended.

Bat it takes her six years and six months to do it. A particularly pretty story is "The Princess's Earring." The illustrations are of

uncertain quality, some pretty, some unsatisfactory. The "Little Margit" of p. 27 and of p. 38 can hardly be the pretty girl (who, however, has a somewhat ghostly look) of p. 40.