Peery - Stories. By Charles M. Iliarson. (E. A. Petherick and Co.,
Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.)—New Fairy-Tales for Children, Young and Old. Told by Aunt Emmy. Translated by Emy Gordon, by permission of the Author. With Aunt Emmy's Portrait, and 40 Illustrations. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) —It is not easy to write really new fairy-stories. Yet both these writers have succeeded in giving an air of freshness to their fairy-tales, especially, we think, the Australian writer, Mr. Charles L. Marson, who, writing from a new continent, has certainly succeeded in giving a very real and effective preternaturalism to his trolls, brownies, and dwarfs. Aunt Emmy's fairy-tales are of Bavarian origin, their author living in Munich. They are cer- tainly good and effective fairy-tales, though one or two of them may have a little too much of the flavour of edification. But there is much vigour of imagination in them,—for instance, in "The Manikins of the Mist," while " Doll Maggie" has a touch of Andersen's humour.
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