The Edge of the World. By Annie Dawson. (The Unicorn
Press.)—The majority of these stories deal, as the title of the first indicates, with the debateable land between the seen and the unseen, and are full of a pleasant and delicate humour. Dwarfs and various of the other inhabitants of fairy-land abound, although they conduct themselves in what may be termed an up- to-date fashion. One story of self-sacrifice, "The Kiss of Lady May," is perhaps a trifle too pathetic. The most human tale in the collection, however—alike in its humour and in its p'ot interest —is "Prince Stregvaart's Choice," which deals with a quarrel be- tween a Prince and his capricious father, and also with the trouble the former is put to in selecting a wife. All ends happily, how- ever, and the Prince secures for his mate, and with the blessing of his father, the peasant's daughter, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. There is perhaps a trifle too much of comic- opera fun in this story.
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