THE GOOD WOMAN.
La Bonne Femme is far superior to Plus Belle que Fée. It is indeed worthy of Madame d'Aulnoy, and I cannot account for its never having previously met with a translator. It will be recognised by playgoers as the foundation of my Fairy Extravaganza, The Good Woman in the Wood, in which form the dramatic incidents of this charming story were first introduced to a London public. As we are bound, after the author's declaration, to consider it an original story, we need not trouble ourselves to hunt after its source. The other original fairy tales—Percinet, Tourbillon, Vert et Blue, Le Pays des Délices, and La Puissance d'Amour—bear no comparison to the two I have selected.