2 NOVEMBER 1901, Page 48

Old King Cole. Edited by J. M. Gibbon. Illustrated by

Charles Robinson. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. fid. net.)—Old King Cole had, we all know, "fiddlers three." It is not so generally known that one of these was a German, another a Scotsman, that the third came from Russia, and that all of them could tell stories as well as fiddle. The Brothers Grimm seem to have known them, and Queen Scheherezade and Dean Swift, and even Shakespeare. Here we have some of the tales that they used to tell set out to further advantage by a humorous and fanciful pencil.