15 DECEMBER 1883, Page 22

Book of English Fairy-tales from the North Country. By Alfred

C. Freyer, Ph.D. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Here are eleven stories, some of them quaint and strange, some, as, for instance, the "Dragon Stories," of a sufficiently familiar type. "The Grocer and the Parrot," where a too truthful bird announces to customers his master's frauds, must surely be an invention of more modern times. This volume is a worthy specimen of the " Fairy Library of All Nations."