18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

My Book of Fairy-Tales. (Edward Arnold.)—Here we have sixteen of

the old favourites,—" Beauty and the Beast," " Tom Thumb," "Blue-Beard," "Aladdin," and the rest of the familiar figures. They seem to us much the same as they have always seemed, nor would it be easy to say why they should be dressed up again. The illustrations, however, are new, and fairly good, though one or two of the -figures may cause a night-mare to a sensitive child with a weak digestion.