22 DECEMBER 1888, Page 27

The Origin of Plum - Pudding, and other Fairy - Tales. By Frank Hudson.

(Ward and Downey.)—These fairy-tales are sufficiently amusing, though they are not improved by the atrocious puns with which they are besprinkled. Some, surely, of these witticisms ought to be beyond the understanding of young readers. "You were not fly enough for me," said the frog to a blue-bottle which he had caught and swallowed. We should think ill of a child that knew the vulgarism of this usage of "fly." The pictures are fairly good.