North Cornwall Fairies and Legends. By Rays Tregarthen. (Wells, Gardner,
Darton, and Co. 3s. net.)-We are always glad to have what we may call cosmopolitan selections of fairy-tales and folk-lore, such as we have in Mr. Andrew Lang's many coloured volumes. It is interesting to see the resemblances and differences between the products of East and West, between legends from Scandinavia and the Far East, from Central Asia and Polynesia. Here we have, collected by an author who is at home in the subject, these tales and legends of a country which is peculiarly rich in such things. The "piskeys " who appear in Miss Tregarthen's pages have all the appearance of genuine fairy- folk. The book is well illustrated, chiefly with photographs of Cornish landscapes, Ito., though the artist now and then pictures for us the little folks themselves. That on p. 91, which shows them crowding round Phyllida as she lies in bed, is a happy effort in this direction.
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