M. B. M. Toland 9 min read

The maiden Ægle and a woodland elf move through a delicate fantasy of enchantment and wonder, a graceful fairy tale for children.

M. B. M. Toland's 1887 book is a charming fantasy for the young. Whimsical, gentle, of its era. Read it for a tender Victorian storybook of a girl and an elf amid the magic of nature, a delicate, prettily-told wonder-tale in the artistic fairy-tale tradition, offering young readers a soft and imaginative ramble through an enchanted world.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Theodor Baur