The reprint of a book first published in 1945 and sub-titled ' The Cottingley Photographs and their Sequel', this book pre-dated the confessions by the two litle girls concerned that they had fabricated the whole business. This being so, the book sets out to provide a supernatural or metaphysical explanation for what was after all quite an obvious schoolgirl prank. Indeed one of the 'fairies' concerned had been cut-out from a fairly well-known book on fairies and should have been obvious to those not blinded by what they wished to believe. Nevertheless the book is interesting even as a sociological and psychological study.