The Dwarfs Tailor, and Others : Fairy - Tales from all Nations.
Collected by Zoe Dana Underhill. (Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.) —This is a very choice collection of twenty odd tales ; some of them may be familiar to well-read children, but all of them are freshly treated, the occasionally tedious details being esoliewed. "The Dwarf's Tailor" is the best in the book, but some of the others are nearly as good, and those that do not point any especially valuable moral will amuse. " Cinderboy and the Witch," " Blunderhead," and "The Wealthy Suitor," will each have their admirers. The volume is a handsome one, the type excellent, and the twelve illustrations are such as fairy-tale illustra. tions should be, beautifully drawn and no less carefully printed. Children of any age will be able to appreciate The Dwarfs Tailor.
We have to acknowledge various periodical volumes :—Light in the Home and Tract Magazine (R.T.S.) ; and from the same pub- lishers The Child's Companion, noticeable for illustrations above the average in merit. —Little Frolic (John F. Shaw) is specially intended, with its large type and easy matter, for young children. Here too the illustrations are noticeably good.—Scarcely less meritorious is the volume of Our Darlings (same publisher).— The Children's Pictorial (S.P.C.K.) has the attraction of colour. —We can also speak with praise of The Boys' and Girls' Com- panion (Church of England Sunday School Institute), and The Church Worker (same publisher), this last being peculiarly interesting to the great multitude of workers, young and old, gentle and simple, who are helping to make the labours of the clergy more effective and far-reaching.
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