What Happened Then, by W. M. Letts (Wells Gardner, 7s.
6d. net), is an attractive set of short stories, with amusing illustrations by Miss Honor Appleton. " How the Boys made Cakes," for example, relates how the youngsters put too much soda in the dough and made themselves feel so ill that they thought they had taken poison by mistake. The Golden Windows, by Laura E. Richards (Ailenson, 5s. net), is a new illustrated edition of a favourite collection of fables, thought-
fully written and soundly moral in tone.-Chickabiddy Stories,
by Edmund Mitchell (Wells Gardner, 5s. net), a well-printed book with good illustrations, contains seven pleasant little tales, of which " The Discontented Sparrow " is perhaps the best.- The Disobedient Kids, by Bozona Nemeove, interpreted by W. H. Tolman and V. Smetanka (Prague : B. Koci, and London : Philip Allan, 6s. net), is an entertaining series of ten Czech fairy tales, charmingly illustrated in line and colour by A.
Scheirer. One of the tales is a variant of " Tom Thumb." The book is printed in a fine bold type and does great credit to the Prague printers.-Favourite French Fairy Tales, by Barbara Douglas (Harrap, 7s. 6d. net), are mostly from Perrault, such as Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty. They are pleasantly retold and the coloured pictures are good.
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