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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: BY WM. SHAKESPEARE. This charming comedy embodies some of the most beautiful and idyllic of the great poet's thoughts. It is, moreover, one of the most delightful of his acting plays. It tells how the Duke of Athens and his Court celebrated his nuptials with Hippolyta by four days of revels; how Quince, and Snug, and Bottom, and other artisans, undertook to enact the play of "Pyramus and Thisbe" for the entertainment of the Court; how Oberon, the king of the fairies, and Puck, his attendant, took part in the revels and played pranks with all the characters, by causing the identity of all to become confused, whereby ensued much mystification until such time as King Oberon caused the scales to fall from their eyes. KONG TOLV: BY DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK.

Imagination has peopled the woods, the waters, the earth and the air with superhuman beings, with genii, fairies, water-sprites, nixies, gnomes and kobolds. Invisible to human eyes, they come and go unseen, living their lives in worlds which humanity cannot enter. The legendary lore of all people and tongues is replete with tales of the doings of these unseen folk. The beautiful story of "Undine" tells how a water-sprite dwelt among mankind and partook of its life. The story of King Tolv tells how a mortal maiden was loved by the Elle-King and became his bride, Queen of the Elves of the Hill, and dwelt for years in the shining palace built by the gnomes far underground; how a child, half-human, half-fairy, was