The Dream Pedlar. By Lady Margaret Sacks-Me. Coloured Illustrations by
Florence Anderson, and Black-and-White Illustrations by Clara Shirley Hayward. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s. net.)—The machinery of fairy-tales is here used in the construction of little allegorical stories. Ele- mental fancies run riot through these pages, and " the Poet," -" the Painter," and, of course, " the Girl," or, better still, "the Witch-girl," behave in accordance with their time- honoured characteristics. They live happy or agitated lives, as the case may be, generally in little wooden houses (perhaps fairy cheap cottages) in flowery, bowery forests. Sometimes, however, we leave these simple folk to consort with Kings and Queens, and other proud creatures who float into our ken in the well-covered magnificence of Court costumes, or in the scantier, but no doubt sufficient, adornment of a puff of wind. We have found so much fault with the three-colour process in other books that here, for fear of wearying our readers, we will only
say that these illustrations are chiefly of thin, but pretty and alluring, young ladies, and " quaint " old women dressed as witches.
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