23 NOVEMBER 1901, page 21

The Potter And The May. By Maud Howard Peterson. (hodder

and Stoughton. 6s.)—The story opens in America with the narrow escape from drowning of three children, two boys and a girl, who grow up into the principal characters. The girl......

Novels.

• IRE FIRST MEN IN Itth MOON.* Narriuro is more characteristic of Mr. Wells's genius than the manner in which, while frankly admitting his indebted- ness to some previous writer......

Children's Books.*

ATTER all, the old fairy-tales are the best: they have " a way with them "that no modern imitators can attain to. Mr. Lang in his preface to The Violet Fairy - Book says "that......