29 OCTOBER 1892, Page 23

The Queen of the Goblins. By W. Pickering. (Gardner and

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—The description of Goblindom is quaint and striking, and so, too, is the account of the flight of the Queen to the Fairy Court; but towards the end the tale seems to get confused, and the ima- ginative powers of the author cease to interest us much, and the conceits are no longer so quaint. But the story is weird, and possesses a certain fascination to the last. On the whole, there might be fewer goblins and more fairies, but children will be amused by the grotesqueness of the goblins.