5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 11

The Magic Casement. Edited by Alfred Noyes. (Chapman and Hall.

Os. net.)—This is an "Anthology of Fairy Poetry," and a xemarkably delightful book. The "magic casement" is Keats's. We look through it with the eyes of the poet and see not a few wonderful sights,—the "bank where the wild thyme blows," where "sleeps Titania sometime of the night," Michael Drayton's " Nimphidia," "Sherwood," with Mr. Noyes himself, Tennyson's -"Sea Fairies," Matthew Arnold's "Forsaken Merman," and, with others too numerous to mention, the best thing that Christina Rossetti ever wrote, so beautiful is it and so full of significance, "Goblin Market."