6 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 12

Stories from Dante, Told by Mary Macgregor, and Stories from

Wagner, Told by C. E. Smith. In the latter the stories are "Lohengrin," "The Meistersingers of Nuremberg," and "The

Flying Dutchman." The second is well suited to the purpose ; about the others we are doubtful, as we are about Dante generally. It must be remembered, however, that children are not so sensitive in the matter as "grown-ups."-----.With these may be mentioned Stories from French History (same publishers, is. net). The stories are about "Queen Clothilde and King Clovis," "Charlemagne," "St. Louis," "Jean d'Arc," "The Huguenots," "French Revolution and Marie Antoinette," and "Napoleon,"—" in praise of Napoleon,' we read, but the praise is reasonably modified.