13 OCTOBER 1888, Page 43

Xsop's Fables for Little Readers. By Mrs. Arthur Brookfield. (T.

Fisher Unwin.)—Mrs. Brookfield found that "even the simplest editions which are published" were too difficult for her own little children to understand, and has accordingly put them into still easier language. She does not, we are glad to see, attempt to use exclusively words of one syllable, a course that necessarily makes some things not at all simple. The fables are "pictured by Henry J. Ford," whose drawings are always spirited.