Only one story, “The Changeling”, has really dramatic moments. There is a miniature _Hamlet_ scene in this, a “little interlude” played by children, which causes the wicked nurse to betray herself. A child would enjoy it better than the _Tales from Shakespear_. But the little girl who frightens herself into believing that her aunt is a witch is best understood by readers of “Witches and Other Night-Fears”; little Margaret, reading herself into Mahometism and a fever would be less interesting to small folk than the book, _Mahometism Explained_, which she found in the old library, “as entertaining as a fairy-tale”. The humour is too subtle for children, they would enjoy the picture of Harlow Fair better than that quaint account of the grave physician puzzled over an extraordinary case, “he never having attended a little Mahometan before”.