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 Introduction seldom met with. But his brother was a more meagre magnanimous person, and his chief accomplishment was to eat a waggon-load of hay overnight, and wake up thatched in the morning.' That passage, taken in conjunction with Miss Sinclair's story, illustrates the progress of nonsense since Holiday House. The tendency, perhaps, has always been to be a little too clever ; very often the cleverness crowds out the nonsense altogether Miss Sinclair was sufficiently near the old moral tradition to be careful to tell a good story all the time, which too many of our modern nursery fun-makers are not. E. V. L. XX b-z