Year: 1875

Of her Imagination These wonderful stories are com
munlcated to little farmer boy named job prnei-
4 pally by an Angora cat and a she'll Ifyou don't
believe 1t you have only TO read the book TO be
vnced Job believed and happy, though his old
| grandfather did tell him that It was all dream
But then, old grandiathers have no sympathy
with fairies They not appreciate what a comfort
talking cat and singing shell is to boy How
charming 70 believe that gnome king gave little In
dian girl jacket which she had only to put on and
clap her hands ber sides like a rooster before
\ ing, and away she would go flying the country
like bird How job envied the witch child, the
little Indian girl called The second evening of
her rambles she "found beautiful lady sitting tho
border Of a lake. She robed leaves, and her
long hair also green but she altogether lovely
even II her look sad She seemed very glad 70 see
the wtch-child, and made her sit down beside her,
while she held her hand


. 4 am chained beneath the waters and can only
rso to the surface Of the lake. She said lived on
the main land very happily until hukgrauo carried me
OF in great storm


Let me see your home, urged the wItch-chid,
curlousy.


Mulkgraub might come and and you, hcsitated
the lady


81 am not afraid while wear my Jacket


Then YOU must be prepared 70 live IN the water, or
the first breath you draw Will srange you 50 say
ing the lady drew from her grde golden clamshell
closed in the form Of bottle which contained per-
| nlmed LIQUID With this she bathed her companion's


face and they diyed together into the lake, where the
Indian found hat She could breathe easily IN the
upper alr.


..Nothing could exceed the beauty OF tho prison
where the lady lived Certainly Mulkgraub had given
/ her handsome residence if he harsh in othor
respects Il was large glass box, with beIl-shaped
roof broad hall extended from entrance 70 the
other but there not dark corner in the place
where one could hide from the Kings searching eye


i 'He is coming cried the lady, hiding the witch
child ia the folds Of her robe. Then, Mulkgraub
tered door she darted Of the other and rising
to the lake surface far her chain would allow,
placed the Indian shore safely once out Of harms
way the witch began TO think OF releasing The
lady from prison. She must ask King Rapp about the
matter. Accordingly, she clapped her wings thrice
and gnome stood at her elbow"


Il it be wondered at that Job happy9 he
woula have been hard please If the old clocks
story Nlp's story, the shells story and the aure
queens story not TO mention all the Others had no;
delighted him. II he had been like his grandfather
he would have had know all sorts Of dsagreeable
people, no doubt; but, as 1t was he had world Of his
own in which he revelled


This volume is made for the holidays and hand
somely printed and illustrated Although fairies
looked upon children's property grown people viii
read about these with pleasure.


NoRISEs REVENGE AND SIR NoEL's HEIR. By May


Agnes Fleming. New York: q w Carleton & 90


The refreshing part OF Norincs revenge is that
her betrayer compelled TO suffer portion Of his
punishment in this world before he departed to
plete the process BY eternal cremation. One may not
approve OF the method by which revenge
compished and yet is pleasure to know that it
ALI no in tba
feelings ofthe girl, who had been cntrapped into sham
marriage, when she found out her actual
condition and that her bQsoand had deserted
her after throe weeks 6lissiu honeymoon Is quite
natural II does not seem so natural however that
child she could plot such terrible retr-
BUTTON and yet the reader cannot but regard with
grim delight The bitter agony which scared her heart
through the days of anxious waiting for tdings from
her husband the tender soctude OF the good
maiden ladies in whose household she passed her
honeymoon, well portrayed From that time
Norines character changed The conacing child-wife
pursued her revenge with steady, remorseess per-
sstency scarcely 70 be expected. Under an assumed
name she was introduced the household OF her be-
trxyers uncle and ha wing secured his aectonae con-
sderation she was compelled last reveal to him
her identity Laurence Thorndyke, the Lotharo, was
to have been the old mans heir, who, when ne DIS
covered what villain his nephew really was, dsin
herited him Norinc accompanied the old to
Europe where be died, leaving all his wealth TO her.
Although the loss or his inherience was great blow
to Thorndyke it did not satisfy Nornes vengeance.
when she returned New York the rich beress her
betrayer met her and was carried away with admir-
alton for her beauty that he resolved to attempt 70 win
her over again Norne led him on to a proposal,
and SO fixed il that his vito should
be present at the interview in which
he declared his passion and said that ne
would get divorce 70 marry her. Then followed
dramatic scene between the three in which Thorndyke
is loaded with scorn and accused Of his per1dy This
completed his rum His wife discarded him, his old
love laughed At him, ana finally committed suicide
in a 1t or drunken insanity The book, like al that
Mrs Fleming writes abounds in dramatic situations,
and the interest Is well sustained 10 the very last
when Norine the wife OF the man 70 whom she
was pighted when was 50 willingly abducted by
her betraycr.


In the same volume are presented three minor
stories-"sE Nools Heir, "A Dark Conspiracy" and


For Better, FOR Worse, By the same author, and al
OF the same quality.


SPAIN BY Baron Oh Daver. Illustrated BY Gus
tave Dore Translated by J. Thomson, +. X q. >.
New York: Scribner, Wexford 4 Armstrong.
The Baron Daviller vas fortunate in having So nne
an artist as NJ Dor6 illustrate his book and NJ. Doro
was equally fortunate in having so clever tho
Baron Daylior to write the book for his pictures.
Dore never had a better chance wicd his magic
pencil than IN tho land of the castanet and mandolin.
spain is a much written about, much illustrated coun-
try but doubt III has been served up 70 the
public agreeable form than by these two brilliant
Frenchmcn This il tho nrst English translation that
has been made Of tie book which is unfamiliar
/ tho original


II IS seldom that the reading matter in a book upon
which great deal Of money has been spent in Illus
trating amounts 10 much. The publisher generally
relies upon the picture make tho book sell In this


instance pen pencil have done justice to each othor
and the subject There three hundred and nine
Of Dor6s illustrations in this volume many Of them
full page and IL tie artists STYLE Those familiar
with Dor6's work will see at a glance what