Note: Two more reviews, wholly positive: -- ample, the lead and longest in "Fiction", The Spectator 115.4554 (1915-10-09) p481-?? -- brief, in "Fiction", The Athenaeum 4590 (1915-10-16) p263 Wholly planned and 3/4 written before the World-War [August 1914] and "inseparably connected with certain characters and incidents of German origin", Anstey carried on without revision "because I cannot bring myself to believe that the nursery friends of our youth could ever be regarded as enemies." --Author's Note, September 1915 The Spectator believes those "nursery friends" are the Brothers Grimm and Märchenland (German fairy tale land).

Synopsis: "It relates the strange adventures in fairyland of the Wibberley-Stimpsons, a family living in a highly select locality within half-an-hour's railway journey from London. Owing to a mistake Mr. and Mrs. [W-S] are crowned joint sovereigns of the fairy land, but their reign, as the title implies, is not a long one, and the difficulties and embarrassments they meet with, and the causes which lead to their ultimate downfall, are fully described in the course of the story." --entire review in "Literary Gossip", The Athenaeum 4586 (1915-09-18) p195 (as "A new novel" forthcoming 1915-09-23, which may be correct)