15 APRIL 1893, Page 25

Once upon a Time. Translated from the Italian of Luigi

Capuana. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is another pleasant volume of a pleasant series," The Children's Library." Fairy-tales are not easily criticised or even described. The charm, when they have it, is of an impalpable kind. One can only say, without giving a reason,—this is the right sort. So we should say of this book, if our readers will consent to receive so arbitrary a judgment.