4 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 8

Mabel's Prince Wonderful. By W. E. Cale. (W. and E.

Chambers. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the stories which would hardly have existed but for " Alice in Wonderland." Mabel makes " a trip to Storyland," and sees a number of figures made familiar to us by fairy tale, legend, and so forth,—Bluebeard, for instance, and Tell, the Little Tin' Soldier, Cinderella, and others. The pictures are scarcely good enough. These are personages of great distinction, and require a thoroughly com- petent artist to delineate them, even as Alexander would suffer but one sculptor and one painter to represent him.