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Other Literary Criticisms:

From The Montreal (Canada) Daily Star, April 5, 1897.

“<The Froggy Fairy Book,’ is obviously intended only for the delight of
very juvenile believers in the occult, but will charm hundreds of children
who still have faith in Santa Claus, Mother Goose and all the venerable
traditions of fairyland. The story tells how its heroine, little Elsie, came
home one afternoon, after playing in Uncle Tom’s big woods, where there
was a brook of clear babbling water. Before going to bed Elsie had her
ears regaled with much fairy lore about frogs, gnomes, princes, castles, etc. ;
and, as a consequence, dreamed the story of the funny froggy, who met
her in the woods in his evening dress, witha lantern in his hand and a violin
under his arm. We dare not do more than mention that subsequently Elsie
heard a frog orchestra, made friends with a frog prince, saw fairies of all
kinds, and, in short, enjoyed plenty of fun. The blood-thirsty combat
between the Prince and the Hop-toad King is described with great
unction, and when Elsie wakes from her dream, which was too vivid for
her to believe it was a dream, she sighs, and murmurs to herself: ‘I
would like to know how dear little Froggy the Prince is, and whether that
horrid Hop-toad King hurt him last night in that terrible fight.’

“Nine clever illustrations by John R. Skeen add interest to the fairy
tale, and light up its varied scenes.”

From The Montreal (Canada) Star, May 15, 1897.

“We have to acknowledge the receipt of the second edition of : this
charming fairy-tale that we recently reviewed in Zhe Star, and to mention
that this edition of another thousand copies is retailed at the modest price
of fifty cents. We may be allowed to add that on April gth we received a
letter from the author of ‘ The Fairy Book,’ and of ‘ The Madeira Islands,’
kindly conveying to us his ‘thanks and deep appreciation for the honor
done to him in the complimentary reviews of his books’ in The Star.
The reviews were the deliberate expression of our opinions, and were
written, we need hardly say, ‘ without fear or favor’ in the ordinary dis-
charge of critical duty.”

 

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