Wanted, a King ? By Maggie Browne. (Cassell and Co.)—This
is the fifth thousand of a quaint story of the "Alice in Wonder- land " kind, to which Mr. Harry Furniss has given the attraction of various designs.—Fairy Tales and True, by Alice F. Jackson (W. P. Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh), consists of eight stories,
described in the title as "fairy " and " true." Perhaps we may add a third kind. " The Rag-and-Bono Man's Dream " is surely mixed. of the two. The "Rag-and-Bone Man " is real enough ; but such people do not dream such instructive and convincing dreams. We must imagine the intervention of Queen Mal) to account for a vision which converted this brute into a humane master. This is a readable little volume.—Up the Mountains, by Albert E. Hooper- (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), is an allegory, and so far scarcely suited for the children for whom it is written. Still, it may well please them, if they take it simply as a tale, and devoutly believe- that the Golden Knight and the Silver Knight were real beings, and not intended to stand for something else.—.Folk-Lore and. Legends : English (W. W. Gibbings) is a volume of a series of the folk-lore belonging to various countries, which has been more than. once noticed in these columns.
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