23 DECEMBER 1882, Page 23

Fables of Mr. John Gay. With a Memoir by Austin

Dobson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—A very pretty, little edition of Gay's fables, in white vellum, with a portrait of Gay awl a short account of his life, simply and well told by Mr. Austin Dobson. We are not sure that Gay would have chosen to be known chiefly by his fables, which often want point. However, English taste has decided that he shall be known chiefly by them, and a prettier edition of them than the present we have never seen.