22 DECEMBER 1883, Page 23

A Christmas Pudding for Young Eaters. By L. C. Skey.

(Griffith and Farran.)—There are various tales, some of the fanciful, some of the real kind in this book. "The Kettle and the Pot" is a fairly suc- cessful imitation of Hans Christian Andersen. In the "Crown of Roses" the fairy machinery is used, but hardly with so good a result. But Mrs. Skey always writes gracefully, and with the best of purposes.