well chosen and well told, and the illustrator, Mr. Maxwell
Parrish, has seconded the efforts of the two collaborators with some quite admirable pictures. We do not remember to have seen a picture more instinct with the spirit of the Arabian Nights than that which has been chosen for frontispiece. The judicious course of giving a few stories unabridged has been followed. The usual introduction to the Nights has been omitted, and, indeed, we can very well do without it. The stories number ten. The best known are "The Fisherman and the Genie," "Aladdin," "Ali Baba," and " Sinbad " ; after these coma " The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water," " The Young King of the Black Isles," " Gulnare of the Sea," "Prince Agib," " The City of Brass," "Codadad and his Brothers."—Somewhat different, as being, it may be, adapted to a younger audience, is The Arabian Nights, Selected and Retold for Children by Gladys Davidson (Blackie and Son, 5s.) Sinbad heading the procession is followed by the familiar company, All Baba and Aladdin among them. —Less known, but not unworthy of its companion, is The Gateway of Romance (T. Nelson and Sons, 5s. net). In this Miss Emily Underwood tells anew some of the legends which William Morris enshrined in his "Earthly Paradise." Among these are the legends of Ogier the Dane, Bellerophon, Perseus, Atalanta, and Psyche. The retelling seems to have been efficiently done.
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