_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.