Brilliant color illustrations complement a noted folklorist's masterfulretellings of traditional fairy tales in this splendid hardcover edition. Quiller-Couch, a distinguished Cambridge don, recounts seven tales of enchantment: "Minon-Minette," "Felicia, or The Pot of Pinks," "Rosanie, or The Inconstant Prince," "The Man Who Never Laughed," "John and the Ghosts," "The Czarina's Violet," and the title tale. The stories are illumi-nated by 23 color plates by Kay Nielsen, a Golden Age of Illustration mas-ter whose exotic Art Nouveau images recall the style of Aubrey Beardsley. A Calla Edition, originally published as InPowder & Crinoline, Hodder & Stoughton.