16 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 12

Tan glewood Tales. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Headley Brothers. 5s.)—One is

glad to presume that the supply of a new edition of these tales implies a demand for them, and pictures will no doubt make them the more attractive to the young. Mr. Soper's coloured illustrations of the six stories are not very forcible. The last, of Jason and Medea and the Golden Fleece, is clever and attractive : it seems the best, and a double- page black-and-white picture of Antaeus and the Pygmies has much more power than the majority.