12 DECEMBER 1868, Page 18

Sunbeam Stories. By tho Author of A Trap to Catch

a Sunbeam. (Lockwood and Co.)—The first of the stories in this book is very pretty, and may be commended alike to young and old. Of the second we cannot speak highly, and would rather not speak at all. " The ' Dream Chintz," as the first is called, (bale with a poor little half-witted child, who has some special relations with the fairies, is protected by them, sees them float through the air and dance among the forest glades each evening. A young man whose occupation lien in designing chintzes is kind to the boy, and in return the fairies devise a lovely pattern, which carries off a prize and sets up the designer. The story is prettily told, and is healthy.