Eileen's Dream : a Fairy-Tale. By Elsie Fullerton. (J. Bumpus.)
—It is a genuine pleasure to get a fresh fairy-story from the author of "The Tale of a Sunbeam," especially such a charming one as this. In it Eileen, a clever and imaginative girl of ten, escapes one day, when she is not equal to her lesson on the violin, through the gates of sleep, and with the help of her tame robin, Bobby,' into a dreamland in which there figure a band of blue fairy musicians, a wicked witch, who is really, however, the head of a reformatory, Queen Lilian, and the good Queen Ysobel. There are some pretty descriptive passages in Eileen's Dream ; it contains at least one poem which is very much above the average of the verse generally thought good enough for fairyland ; and it is none the worse for the thin and almost invisible thread of pretty girl- philosophy which runs through it. The illustrations, which are the work of the authoress's sister, Miss Emily Fullerton, are full of a dainty humour.
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