Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath, and off we go.

This evening we're returning to a curious little volume

we started way back in May,

the coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the New

Revelation, The Vital Message and Wandering's the vital message and wanderings of a spiritualist, illustrated from photographs, published by the George

H. Doren Company, New York, copyright 1921 and 1922.

Let's pick up right where we left off in the middle of Chapter 2, the first published account

in the Strand, Christmas Number 1920.

I will now make a few comments upon the two pictures,

which I have studied long and earnestly with a high-power lens.

One fact of interest is this presence of a double pipe,

the very sort which the ancients associated with fawns and

naiads in each picture. But if pipes, why not everything else?

Does it not suggest a complete range of utensils and instruments for their own life?

Their clothing is substantial enough.

It seems to me that with fuller knowledge

and with fresh means of vision,

these people are destined to become just as solid and real as the Eskimo.

There is an ornamental rim to the pipe of the Elves, which shows that the graces of art are not unknown among them.

And what joy is in the complete abandon of their little graceful figures as they let themselves go in the dance.

They may have their shadows and trials as we have, but at least there is a great gladness manifest in this demonstration of their life.

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