The Floating Prince, and Other Fairy Tales
With illustrations by Bensell and others. One volume, quarto, boards. $1.50.
“Stockton has the knack, perhaps genius would be a better word, of writing in the easiest of colloquial English, without descending to the plane of the vulgar or commonplace. The very perfection of his work hinders the reader from perceiving at once how good of its kind it is.... With the added charm of a most delicate humor,—a real humor, mellow, tender, and informed by a singularly quaint and racy fancy,—his stories become irresistibly attractive.”—Philadelphia Times.